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I haven't found any numbers comparing the per capita charitable donations and foreign aid of the United States and a broad series of other countries yet - at least any that I can source and trust.
But you can find a good comparison of the US and the United Kingdom here.
As usual, it's not just a matter of adding up total donations and dividing by the number of people. Any valid nation-by-nation comparison will have to be adjusted for national income, gini factors, GDP, disposable income, percentage of GDP committed to foreign aid, percentage of GDP committed to the defense of other countries (in effect subsidizing their welfare states, in many cases), the strength of various currencies, and even competing definitions of what constitutes a charitable donation.
You also have to take into account how charitable donations are treated in various tax codes.
So next time you see a big list, putting the US at the top, or at the bottom, beware.
It's easy to discount charitable contributions (43% of all charitable contributions in the US, but they don't count as charity in the UK apparently), or defense-related foreign aid and put the US near the bottom.
Or you can discount national incomes or a percentage of GDP and put the US near the top.
Express aid levels in Euros and the US comes out substantially weaker than it did three years ago, when the dollar was very strong against the Euro. So maybe you convert everything to constant dollars. But what year do you select?
The bottom line:
I could concieveably affect the debate by coming up with a ranking system rigged to say almost anything I wanted to say. I could put the US either at the top of a list of developed nations in terms of charity, or I could put it at or very near the bottom, just by tweaking how I process the data.
Be careful what you read and where it comes from.
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As usual, it's not just a matter of adding up total donations and dividing by the number of people. Any valid nation-by-nation comparison will have to be adjusted for national income, gini factors, GDP, disposable income, percentage of GDP committed to foreign aid, percentage of GDP committed to the defense of other countries (in effect subsidizing their welfare states, in many cases), the strength of various currencies, and even competing definitions of what constitutes a charitable donation.
You also have to take into account how charitable donations are treated in various tax codes.
So next time you see a big list, putting the US at the top, or at the bottom, beware.
It's easy to discount charitable contributions (43% of all charitable contributions in the US, but they don't count as charity in the UK apparently), or defense-related foreign aid and put the US near the bottom.
Or you can discount national incomes or a percentage of GDP and put the US near the top.
Express aid levels in Euros and the US comes out substantially weaker than it did three years ago, when the dollar was very strong against the Euro. So maybe you convert everything to constant dollars. But what year do you select?
The bottom line:
I could concieveably affect the debate by coming up with a ranking system rigged to say almost anything I wanted to say. I could put the US either at the top of a list of developed nations in terms of charity, or I could put it at or very near the bottom, just by tweaking how I process the data.
Be careful what you read and where it comes from.
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