Bangladeshi generosity ranks 9th in Asia

Bangladesh stood in the ninth position among its Asian neighbours in an international ranking as the most generous country.

With an overall score of 31 per cent, the country has been ranked 74 in the world and fourth in South Asia in the CAF World Giving Index 2018 by British organisation Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).

Rest of the countries which made their place in the top ten are: Singapore, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Nepal, Republic of Korea, Thailand and Philippines, according to the CAF index.

Whereas, Indonesia took the first position in the world scoring highest 59%.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh ranked seventh in the table of Top 10 countries by the number of people helping a stranger.

In the ninth edition of the CAF World Giving Index presents giving data from across the globe over a five year period (2013-2017). The CAF index includes data from 146 countries that was collected throughout 2017.    

"With as many as 2.4 billion people set to join the world's middle classesby 2030, it is crucial that we ensure that the groundwork is put in place to support and encourage a mass engagement in giving," the CAF report said.

"We estimate that if the world's middle classes were to give just 0.5% of their spending – less than the average UK household gives and about the same as people in the Republic of Korea – that could amount to $319 billion in resources for civil society organizations annually in 2030," it added.

Key insights of the generosity index

Indonesia topped the CAF World Giving Index 2018 for the first time whilst Indonesia's three individual giving scores are largely unchanged since last year when the country came in second place, it now moves into the top spot vacated by Myanmar, which has

dropped down to ninth place after four years at number one.

More people are helping a stranger

Significantly more people across the globe reported helping a stranger and volunteering time in 2017, whilst the proportion who donated money has declined for the second year in a row.

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Low in donations

The proportion of people across the world who donated money in 2017 – when the research for this year's report was conducted – is still at its lowest level since 2013. 

Donating money has increased amongst those from developed nations (from 40% to 42%), but has declined amongst developing countries (from 25% to 24%). It has also declined amongst the older age groups who have historically been the most likely to give in this way.

Scores of the top 20 western countries bounce back last year, the index reported that every western country in the top 20 had a lower score in the index. This decline has now been largely reversed with most of those same countries now more in line with earlier Index scores pre 2016. When taken as a group, developed countries have seen an improvement across all three scores, but particularly in terms of donating money and helping a stranger.

The giving gap between continents has narrowed in recent years An upward trend for Africa coupled with a slight decrease for the Americas and a fairly flat trend elsewhere has led to a narrowing of the giving gap between the continents. Excluding Oceania (which in our survey is made up of only Australia and New Zealand) the gap between the lowest scoring continent, Africa, and the second highest scoring continent, Asia, has narrowed to just one percentage point. This compares to six percentage points five years ago, the index report said.