Relative generosity

Sweden has a small number of people, but they are very generous.
The USA has a large number of people, who donate just a little each.
But because there are so MANY stingy people in the US, it's still adds up to a lot more than tiny Sweden can scrape together.



The USA has 286 million people who produce $13,220 billion a year, about $46,153 per person.
Sweden has only 9 million people who produce $371 billion a year, about $41,222 per person.
So, Swedish and American people earn about the same amount of money.
Neither one is poverty stricken. $41,000 a year is a pretty good income.

However, each American donates about $79 for aid (0.17% of their income), totalling $22.7 billion,
while each Swede donates $444 for aid (1.08% of their income), totalling $4.0 billion.
So, each Swedish person is about six times more generous than an American.

There are not a lot of Swede's though, so even though they try harder and give more,
their total donation is still less than the huge country of America.
9 million people donating $444 each is still less than
286 million people donating $79 each.

Does that make sense, or too many numbers?