This archive report was first published on 16 October 2019.
Published on October 16, 2019, a research by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) ranked Kenyans as the most generous people in Africa.
World Giving Index, conducted among 125 countries, placed Kenyans 11th globally.
Indonesia and Kenya are the most improved countries overall, having increased their Index score by an average of 19 points each over the last decade.
According to the World Giving Index 2018, in Kenya, more than half of people donated money to charity compared to less than a third in the 2010 edition.
The United States of America topped the list as the most generous country in the world over a decade of CAF World Giving Index.
The research looked at three aspects of giving behaviors: helping a stranger, donating money, and volunteering.
Helping a stranger is the most commonly performed giving behavior across the world, with 48.3% having done so across the 10 years of the World Giving Index.
More than two and a half billion people have helped a stranger in the last decade.
Myanmar has the highest rate of people donating money to charity, but the number has dropped significantly in recent years, particularly amongst those aged under 50.
Sri Lanka has the highest rate of volunteering in the world, with an average of around seven million people volunteering their time each year.
