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Originally posted by MarchHare@Jan 4 2005, 03:49 PM
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Between 200 million in private donations and the US governments 350 million dollar pledge, the number is more like 550 million, almost 5 times the 120 million referenced in that chart.
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The chart is only counting private donations from individuals. The data comes from here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4145259.stm
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If you did a quick readjustment to include government donations, it would be like this:
country gov't + public = total / population = per capita
Norway 182 + 30 = 212 / 4.6 = 46.1
Qatar 35 + 0 = 35 / .8 = 43.75
Sweden 80 + 60 = 140 / 9 = 15.5
Denmark 75 + 0 = 75 / 5.4 = 13.9
Britain 242 + 146 = 386 / 60 = 6.4
Australia 46 + 58 = 104 / 20 = 5.2
Canada 80 + 65 = 145/30 = 4.8
Netherlands 34 + 35 = 69 / 16 = 4.3
Japan 500 + 0 = 500 / 127 = 3.93
South Korea 60 + 13 = 73 / 23 = 3.1
Germany 27 + 130 = 157 / 82 = 1.9
France 66 + 49 = 115 / 60 = 1.9
Italy 95 + 20 = 115 / 58 = 1.9
US 424 + 120 = 544 / 293 = 1.9
Spain 68 + 0 = 68 / 40 = 1.7
China 60 + 2 = 62 /1300 = 0.05
I used numbers in the link above as well as those on the CBC website, which appears to be more recent:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/asia_ear...ke/numbers.html
Anyway, I'm not making this list to condemn any country over their level of donations--mainly, I was curious to see how Canada compared. Definitely nothing to be ashamed of. It demonstrates how such small amounts add up so quickly: donations don't have to be in the form of a few rich people putting in hundreds of thousands. Even if every individual just puts in a few dollars, it adds up to a huge amount.
edit: I just put in a 0 for public donations when I didn't have data. Likely they aren't really at zero.