The Charities Aid Foundation is a UK-based organization that supports charity and the people who donate to them. It also compiles an annual report on the most Generous Countries in the world. The organization ranks 140 countries across the world according to how charitable they are.

The aim is to provide insight into the nature of giving around the world. The World Giving Index measures the generosity of three factors, namely the number of people volunteering, helping strangers, and monetary donations. For the latest ranking, CAF surveyed over 145,000 from 139 countries and averaged their response on their participation in any of the three categories. According to the findings, here are the top ten Generous countries.

The Most Generous Countries 2018

10. United Arab Emirates

Wealthy in every sense of the word, the country broke into the Top 10 for the first time ever.

9. Ireland

Its tourism industry isn’t successful for nothing. The kindness of strangers along with volunteerism make Ireland a place you need to go.

8. United Kingdom

BB (Before Brexit), 69 percent of Brits gave to others while 33 percent were more than happy to donate their time. Will, that change? Only time will tell.

7. Indonesia

Moving up from 22 to seven is quite the improvement. The survey was conducted in August, during Ramadan, so donating to charity may have been high at the time but, hey, we’ll take it.

6. Canada

As the world’s second-largest country, Canada has made the Top 10 every year and 2016 was no different thanks to volunteering and helping others.

5. Sri Lanka

Its nearly 26-year-long civil war came to an end in 2009 and amidst all that devastation, the country of 21 million rounds out the Top 5, scoring high marks for both kindnesses to strangers and community volunteerism. Amazing.

4. New Zealand

Just like its neighbor Australia (you’ll see them in a sec), the World Giving Index calls the Oceania region “a conflict-free, economically homogenous continent where barriers to giving will be lower than in many other countries.” Hear, hear.

3. Australia

Australians ranked third in amounts of per-person giving to charity and the country has promised to welcome 12,000 Syrian refugees.

2. United States

There was a time not too long ago when 73 percent of people helped a stranger, and volunteerism was high. Who knows what next year’s numbers will be like.

1. Myanmar

An astounding 91 percent of people in Myanmar gave money to charity in the past year. “The high scores are likely to be a result of Theravada Buddhism practiced by a large proportion of the population in Myanmar, whereby followers donate to support those living a monastic lifestyle – a practice known as Sangha Dana,” the report states. Still. At 39 million people, that makes it the highest per-person giving a ratio of any country. Bravo.

The Most Generous Countries 2018

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