Bahrain ‘tenth most generous country’

Bahrain is the tenth most generous country in the world, according to results of a study. The Kingdom was ranked tenth in the world when it comes to donating for charity, according to a study by the London-based Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The findings were released in CAF’s World Giving Index 2018.

With an overall score of 53 percent, the index ranked Bahrain tenth overall with high scores in many indices. The indices that boosted the Kingdom’s ranking include ‘helping a stranger’ where it was found that 74pc of the people in Bahrain surveyed helped a stranger in the previous year taking Bahrain to the sixth position in the index.

Bahrain was ranked 25th in the ‘donating money’ index with a score of 53pc. The country was ranked 24th in the ‘volunteering time’ index with a score of 33pc. Indonesia was deemed the most generous country in the world. Australia and New Zealand made up the top three with only around half a percentage point between them.