The governments of Sweden and England contributed $8.40 per citizen. The government of the wealthiest country on earth, the United States of America, originally offered twelve cents per citizen, here.
Now we’re up to a buck twenty. Japan, a country a fraction of ours and with a relatively tiny population, is giving more than is our government.
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Japanese are generally diminutive but there are a lot of them; at least 127 million, making Japan the ninth most populated nation. That’s is about 45% of the US in a nation a tad smaller than California. Since WWII they have been pretty generous with their foreign aid.