Top ten generous countries in the World
The United States and Myanmar ranked as the most generous
countries in the world. Canada is ranking at third place, Ireland at fourth and
New Zealand at fifth place.
Sri Lanka ranked ninth place at the 2014 World Giving
Index (WGI) compiled by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) which looks at
charitable behaviors of countries including the tendency of helping strangers,
donating money and volunteering.
The United Kingdom based Foundation’s Giving Index had
covered 135 countries based on more than a million interviews conducted by
Gallup since 2005/06, as part of their World Poll survey.
The next five most generous countries were Australia,
Malaysia and the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka and Trinidad and Tobago
respectively.
Sri Lanka’s neighbors like India had ranked at 69,
Pakistan at 61, Bangladesh at 72 with Afghanistan ranking at 79 and Nepal at 44
in the index.
The index report highlighted that Theravada Buddhism in
countries like Myanmar and Sri Lanka had influenced and encouraged charity
among the societies.
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