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India bags 14th spot in World Giving Index; 61% Indians helped strangers in 2020 Covid pandemic

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Indians have helped a stranger during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic year. Last year, 36% of Indians donated money, 34% volunteered for social causes in the country.

Communities around the world mobilised to help fellow citizens during the pandemic, resulting in the highest ‘helped a stranger’ figures since 2009.

More than half (55%) of the world’s adults – or 3 billion people - reported helping someone they didn’t know in 2020, according to the survey.

Besides, more people donated money in 2020 than had done so in the last five years (31%). Levels of volunteering in 2020 are broadly unchanged at the global level, it added.

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