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Recently someone in one of my classes was talking about donations to Haiti and mentioned some statistics about it. This made me curious and so I looked up some more statistics.
Link to news site with statistics
I noticed that a lot of wealthier countries aren't even on the list, while some poorer countries were. Guyana, which apparently isn't very wealthy, has donated quite a large portion of their GDP.
Economic powerhouses like China and Japan have some pretty low numbers relative to their GDPs and population. Canada might be one of the bigger surprises with 3.92 dollars donated per person (US is 0.53).
I myself am somewhat disappointed not to see Korea anywhere. If anyone could find another source of statistics with a broader range of countries, that'd be awesome.
edit: Ah, here are some more details.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tMozJlQiN8ftSj0s8tLx31g&gid=1
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Pretty much as you'd expect. It's really close to Nth America so they're gonna donate more and Canada has a small population.
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Dude I eat at the Panera on 11th Ave. like twice a week. Do you have any idea how much that costs? I've donated $1 twice though.
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Wow, Canada donated nearly $4 per person O_O
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Gooo canada. It's funny cause I've probably donated 4 dollars total in random empty gallon water jugs that said support Haiti. THE STATS ARE TRUE
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On February 08 2010 13:41 iCCup.deL wrote:
Pretty much as you'd expect. It's really close to Nth America so they're gonna donate more and Canada has a small population.
Do you know what per person means?
edit: of course you don't, why did I even ask
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On February 08 2010 13:33 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
so what are the "Others"
All the other countries that donated but not enough to get on the list, put together.
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I heard Canada is a pretty nice guy.
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I heard we should blame Canada........for being so generous!
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How is it surprising that Canada has donated so much?
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Surprised to see US on top. So many people yell about the US not giving enough...when our own economy is in shambles..foreign aid isn't so bad.
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Canada has a massive portion of the Haitian Diaspora, so people scored political points by using tax money to win their votes.
But yeah, we're nice people.
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On February 08 2010 14:16 DivinO wrote:
Surprised to see US on top. So many people yell about the US not giving enough...when our own economy is in shambles..foreign aid isn't so bad.
huh? US always give a lot, just maybe not the most per capita.
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I find it mildly interesting that Sweden/Norway/Denmark/Finland are four of the top five in the per person category.
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Japanese generally put out for int situations. To be fair Haiti is in the US' sphere of influence.... also the US economy is disproporitionately larger than just about any other economy.
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On February 08 2010 13:48 nitram wrote:
Wow, Canada donated nearly $4 per person O_O
i gave $7 i'm canadian!
there's shit load of haitian in montreal that's why. I work in a children hospital and there's alot of white parent's adopting black kids also.
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