World Giving Index (charity index)

What is it?

The World Giving Index is designed by Charities Aid Foundation to provide evidence-based insight into the scope and nature of giving around the world. In order to reflect a culturally diverse planet, the report looks at three aspects of giving behaviour. To establish a rounded measure of giving behaviour across the world, the World Giving Index relies on a simple averaging of the responses from the three key questions asked in each country. The questions are:

Have you done any of the following in the past month:

•          „ Donated money to a charity?
•          „ Volunteered your time to an organisation?
•          „ Helped a stranger, or someone you didn’t know who needed help?

Each country is given a percentage score; and countries are ranked on the basis of these scores.

The World Giving Index focuses on the percentage of people who donate money, volunteer time, and help a stranger, to any extent, in a typical month. It does not quantify the amount of money donated, the number of hours volunteered, or the number of strangers helped. The strength of this approach is that it provides a clear view of the basic state of giving worldwide - by showing who is ‘included’ in giving, and who is not.

Rankings:

Indonesia within top 10 means on average at least half the population is taking part in at least one of the three behaviours – donating money, volunteering time and helping a stranger – on a monthly basis.

Country	World Giving Index 2012 Ranking	World Giving Index Score (%)	Donating money (%)	Volunteering time (%)	Helping a stranger (%)
Indonesia	7	52	71	41	43
Thailand	26	42	71	15	40

Evaluation

The higher the WGI index, the more chartitable the nation. From the world giving index rankings, Indonesia is a more gracious and grateful country as on average, more of Indonesian's population are able to and willing to give in terms of donating money to charity, helping a stranger and volunteering than Thailand's population. With a higher world giving index score, Indonesians enjoy a higher standard of living in the non-material aspect than the Thais since more people in Indonesia are giving back to the community or are helping one another and are thus happier.

Verdict

Indonesia > Thailand

https://www.cafonline.org/PDF/WorldGivingIndex2012WEB.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Giving_Index