⇒ Recently, World Giving Index 2021 has been released by Charities Aid Foundation.
Rank of India:
India has been ranked at 14th most charitable nation out of 114 countries in the ‘World Giving Index’ 2021.
India, which had maintained a global average rank of 82 for ten years, became the 14th most generous country of the world.
According to the WGI 2021, about 61 percent of Indians helped strangers, 34 percent of Indians volunteered for social services while about 36 percent donated money despite national lockdown last year.
Top Countries:
This year the World Giving Index has been topped by Indonesia, followed by Kenya and Nigeria in the top three respectively.
ABOUT:
The WGI is a global survey, interviewing millions of people, and asking three questions from each one of them:
- Have they helped a stranger?
- Given money?
- Volunteered for a good cause over the past month?
- The Charities Aid Foundation is the United Kingdom based international organisation.