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The index of gerosity is the residual of regressing national average of response to the question gHave you donated money to a charity in the past month?h on GDP per capita.
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom23.3%
2 Netherlands17.5%
3 Iceland16.0%
4 Australia15.9%
5 New Zealand13.4%
6 United States9.8%
7 Norway9.3%
8 Canada8.9%
9 Sweden8.6%
10 Ireland7.7%
11 Austria4.2%
12 Israel3.1%
13 Denmark3.0%
14 Switzerland2.5%
15 Germany1.1%
16 Luxembourg-3.4%
17 Chile-4.4%
18 Spain-8.1%
19 Republic of Korea-8.3%
20 Italy-8.4%
21 Finland-9.8%
22 Slovenia-10.1%
23 Estonia-10.6%
24 Slovakia-12.4%
25 Costa Rica-12.6%
26 Colombia-13.5%
27 Turkiye-13.9%
28 France-14.7%
28 Mexico-14.7%
30 Belgium-15.3%
31 Latvia-16.2%
32 Poland-16.5%
33 Hungary-18.6%
34 Lithuania-20.3%
35 Czech Republic-20.8%
36 Portugal-24.4%
37 Japan -25.8%
38 Greece-28.8%

Source
Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, eds. 2021. World Happiness Report 2021. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 3.216624 X +6.866
Correlation coefficient (r)0.666
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.444

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 124067.893323 X +50421.004
Correlation coefficient (r)0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 8.231343 X +80.832
Correlation coefficient (r)0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 0.266469 X +1.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -4.163094 X +12.213
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010