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Originally Posted by mgellan
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"While exact figures are impossible to come by, the highest estimates from recent years put individual U.S. donations to overseas aid at 0.16 percent of national income, according to the Center for Global Development’s Steven Radelet. (More conservative estimates suggest that this number may actually be as low as 0.03 percent; an OECD estimate put the number at 0.06 percent.) Add the optimistic 0.16 percent estimate to the 0.16 percent of national income in government donations and you reach a combined 0.32 percent of national income—which is still less than the governmental aid alone of roughly half of the world’s wealthiest nations."
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2005 eh? Below from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006
1. United States - $22.739 billion
2. United Kingdom - $12.607 billion
3. Japan - $11.608 billion
4. France - $10.448 billion
5. Germany - $10.351 billion
6. Netherlands - $5.452 billion
7. Sweden - $3.962 billion
8. Spain - $3.801 billion
9. Canada - $3.731 billion
10. Italy - $3.672 billion
Or something as recent as 2007
1. United States, 1.67 percent of GDP
2. United Kingdom, 0.73
3. Canada, 0.72
4. Australia, 0.69
5. South Africa, 0.64
6. Ireland, 0.47
7. Netherlands, 0.45
8. Singapore, 0.29
9. New Zealand, 0.29
10. Turkey, 0.23
Sources: Charities Aid Foundation, Canadian Centre for Philanthropy