Don't Worry - Be Happy

How generous would you say you are?
Ever heard of the "World Giving Index"? This measures charitable behaviour globally in three different ways: giving money, giving time and giving help. It's produced by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), and New Zealand and Australia have topped the list!
On the other side of the world, Malta was found to be the country with the largest percentage of the population (83%) giving money, while the people of Turkmenistan are the most generous with their time, with 61% having given time to charity.
CAF recognises that "charity" means more than just financial donations: if that was the sole measure of charity, the wealthiest nations would obviously appear most charitable. So the "World Giving Index" reflects the diversity of charitable behaviour, bypasses cultural/regional differences, and highlights how generous people can be - even when money is short.
Giving money to charity ranges from 4% in Lithuania to 83% in Malta. Volunteering ranges from 2% in Cambodia to 61% in Turkmenistan. Each country has its own way to give: for example, in Liberia less than one tenth (8%) of the population give money to charity every month, but over ¾ of them (76%) help a stranger every month, more than any other country in the world.
Overall, 20% of the world’s population had volunteered time in the last month, 30% had given money to charity, and 45% had helped a stranger.
The study also found that being happy is more of an influence on giving money to charity, than being wealthy.