The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) published its annual report titled "World Giving Index 2024" which aims at providing insight into the world's scope and nature of giving and accordingly ranks countries based on the generosity of their people. The CAF bases its estimation of the degree of giving on a criterion that takes into consideration three main aspects of giving activities, the first has to do with whether one responds positively to helping a stranger; the second tackles the aspect of donating money to a charity; while the third relates to whether one engages in volunteering activities and how much time is given to them. The methodology is characterized by simplicity: answers and responses to the above three questions are recorded and averaged for the 142 countries included in the survey. In this vein, Indonesia emerged as the most charitable country in the world for the seventh time in a row in 2024 with a Giving Index score of 74%, followed by Kenya (score: 63%), Singapore (score: 61%), the Gambia (score: 61%), Nigeria (score: 60%) and the United States of America (score: 59%), only to name a few.

With respect to the Arab world, the United Arab Emirates outperformed its regional peers and ranked 9^th in the world with a score of 54%, followed by Bahrain (score: 51%; global rank: 16^th), Kuwait (score: 51%; global rank: 18^th) and Saudi Arabia (score: 46%; global rank: 33^rd).

On a local basis, Lebanon came in 131^st in the world in the 2024 Giving Index with a score of 26%, ranking 11^th amongst the 13 covered Arab countries (compared to a score of 23% in 2023 and a global rank of 135), only trailed by Tunisia (score: 24%; global rank: 134^th) and Yemen (score: 23%; global rank: 138^th). More specifically, Lebanon scored 49% in the average help for a stranger parameter, 21% in the average money donation criteria and 8% in the average time given to volunteering activities.