Tsunami Aid as a Function of GDP [Justin]
Dad, mom, and I were arguing about whether the United States’ $350 million aid pledge for tsunami victims was generous or stingy. I said it was pretty stingy, but it looks like the US actually did pretty well (though we were far from the most generous).
This table shows the relative contributions of each nation. I have multiplied the aid/gdp quotient by a million, because it’s hard to read and compare numbers with leading zeros. Here is a more complete table of tsunami relief as a function of GDP.
| Country | 1,000,000 X Aid/GDP++ |
| 1. Qatar | 572.54094 |
| 2. Australia | 107.37465 |
| 3. Spain* | 81.32998 |
| 4. Denmark* | 73.44494 |
| 5. Kuwait | 59.37403 |
| 6. Saudi Arabia | 53.05631 |
| 7. China | 44.68554 |
| 8. Norway | 37.00712 |
| 9. United States | 32.16436 |
| 10. United Arab Emirates | 28.18489 |
| 11. Finland* | 20.99127 |
| 12. Britain | 16.43584 |
| 13. Singapore | 13.13744 |
| 14. EU (plus members) | 12.11489 |
| 15. France* | 11.64017 |
| 16. Germany* | 11.30064 |
| 17. Slovakia* | 7.26936 |
| 18. Japan | 6.93410 |
| 19. Switzerland | 5.66735 |
| 20. Austria* | 5.56757 |
| 21. Netherlands* | 5.30322 |
| 22. Czech Republic* | 5.22016 |
| 23. Slovenia* | 4.31822 |
| 24. Canada | 3.95499 |
| 25. European Union+ | 3.38391 |
| 26. S. Korea | 3.30398 |
| 27. Poland* | 1.60334 |
| 28. Greece* | 1.17580 |
| 29. Egypt | 0.98269 |
+Not including additional contributions made by member nations
++Included for easy comparison
*Not including contribution via EU
Sources:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6767190/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29


I wish we could spend a lot more time thinking and talking about ways to help, instead of arguing about whether we are stingy or not, or even whether the same disaster could happen to America.http://messychristian.blogs.com/messy_christian/2004/12/whos_stingy.html
Nice work! Impressive work. Another factor that should be taken into account is the percentage of a nation’s GDP that goes back into the government (via taxes, state-owned enterprises, etc.). Nations like Norway (I’m Norwegian) and Denmark have extremely high taxes (think ~60%) AND a national sales tax near 25%. MOST of Norway’s GDP goes back into the gov’t, whereas the US gov’t takes up a much smaller percentage of the GDP. Ontop of this fact, you have inumerable private contributions coming out of the United States (because American businesses and individuals get to keep more of their money).
Ted-
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