 |
|
| Home | Encyclopedia | Statistics | Countries A-Z | Flags | Maps | Education | Forum | FAQ | About |
|
|
| COMMENTARY |
|
BonnyBumChumz 16th January 2006 |
I never knew Italy would be so mean. 'J' |
|
James 23rd January 2006 |
It's surprising to me that with all the hoopla surrounding religious values in the United States, it would appear that they don't much care to practice what they preach. I fail to see we even crack the top 20. Quite saddening. |
|
Chronos 30th January 2006 |
In terms of gross amount the US donates the most. In terms of per/capita I was under the impression that we did very well. It was only when measured on a percent of GDP where the US was not that high. |
|
Jen 8th February 2006 |
Sweden should be included in that list as they donate 1% of the GNP every year to charity. Sweden was one of the best aid contributors to the Boxing Day tsunami last year for instance. Just fyi. |
|
Some1 10th February 2006 |
Thats not true about Saudi Arabia, its in the Islamic relegion that they have to donate 2.5% of thier income (if they can) to charity. |
|
Esben 20th February 2006 |
interesting that Denmark is one of the countrys that gives most, when people talk about that we are some ignorant and isolated fools (i refer to 60 minuts) maybe the U.S should start looking at them selves, this program talk about Denmark like they knew nothing - and they really don't! i'm not this Jyllands-posten and i'm not afraid of Islam, remember that the most Islamafraid partie "only" got about 10% of the parlament and they don't represent the danish people. |
|
JK 22nd February 2006 |
There seems to be some confusion here. To summarize, read the fine print on the definition. Towards the end, specifically. These statistics do not reflect private contributions nor corporate nor religious donations. The US total contribution would exceed all other state contributors in the group if those factors were taken into consideration.. The citizens decide how much to contribute, and that exceedes the sums donated by all other state funded donations. We not only crack the top twenty, we most likely own all twenty spots. |
|
Christina 25th March 2006 |
i Love Canada. They are by far the nicest people i have ever met. |
|
PeterHiggins (UK) 22nd June 2006 |
Actually the US comes in at $23 per capita, so it does crack the top 20. Sweden donates $1.7bn on the same basis, and therefore comes out at roughly $240 per person. The comment about Saudi Arabia is innappropriate as we are not talking about all charity here, we are talking about ODA - i.e. international economic assistance. Total charitable giving is difficult to compare, especially between Europe and the US as in Europe we have a welfare state which replaces many of the needs of domestic charity. Also aid given by the US state is usually directed (i.e. for favours), whereas European international state aid is humanitarian. In absolute terms (not per capita) the US comes third with $6.9bn of donations. |
|
whitebuffalo (usa) 1st January 2007 |
It stands to reason, that international war banking is the main problem of this world. the secondary problem is wicked false teaching that supports this.What approach will ever work to solve this, outside of waiting, because waiting didn't work for our ancestors. |
|
Miguel Villanueva (USA) 17th February 2007 |
The footnote indicating that these "donations" are official, i.e. from each country's government, should be put in the title. "Editorializing" that the 10 most generous countries in terms of contributions are all in Europe is misleading. The USA contributes by far more than any other nation in absolute dollars and in percapita terms when one adds government aid and private donations (or are countries defined only by their governments?). Perhaps that's why these bits of information are called "factoids" rather than facts. |
|
Martijn v.d Geest (Delft) 25th November 2007 |
How on earth can you question whether government aid is not generosity? We're not being run by dictators you know! And Steve things are looking a lot bleaker now for the USA economically than for Europe and we give more as well. And uncle Sam did not give most during the Tsunami far from it. The statistics are right on this site. |
|
Roel (The Netherlands) 1st March 2008 |
European aid is mostly humane aid without asking anything in return. Whereas the U.S. mostly asks something in return for their "aid". I think looking at the aid stats we can safely say that Europe is the most generous and humane place on earth. Just imagine when we would add up all European states' aid together, Europe would completely bury any other state with the same amount of inhabitants... |
Share your thoughts, questions and commentary here
Lesson Plans | Student Area | Student FAQ | Reviews | Press Releases |
Feeds |
Contact© Copyright NationMaster.com 2003-2008. All Rights Reserved. Usage implies agreement with terms.