India ranked 82nd among 128 countries for generosity over the last 10 years, according to the tenth World Giving Index (WGI).

Up to a third of Indians helped a stranger, one in four donated money, and one in five gave their time volunteering, the report said, attributing India’s low ranking to its strong culture of unorganized and informal giving to family, community and religion.

It recommended more formal mechanisms of donating to charity.

The report, published on-line in October, was based on surveys of 1.3 million people in 128 countries during 2009-2018. It asked interviewees if they had helped a stranger, donated money to charity or volunteered their time in the past month.

The surveys used Gallup World Poll data and were commissioned by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), a UK charity that provides services and assistance to international charities and their donors.

India’s rank on the Index has yoyoed vastly, the lowest being 134th in 2010 and the highest being 81st last year. This year’s report aggregated data for each country for the last 10 years. India’s overall WGI score this year was 26 percent.

Of the top 10 countries, seven are among the wealthiest in the world. Yet, global generosity is on the decline, stated the report, highlighting that individual giving is now lower in countries with long histories of philanthropy such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.