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Kiwis give $1.3b a year to charity - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz: "Kiwis give $1.3b a year to charity
By PATRICK CREWDSON - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 28 March 2007

New Zealanders give about $1.3 billion to charitable causes each year - including an average $91 from each individual - according to the most comprehensive research yet on Kiwi philanthropy.

With an estimated philanthropic haul of $1.27 billion in 2005 to 2006, equivalent to 0.81 per cent of gross domestic product, a measure of the size of a country's economy, Kiwis were more generous than Canadians and Australians but stingier than British and Americans."