Active Ageing in CIS Countries: Semantics, Challenges, and Responses

Table 2

CIS and EU countries ranked by the percentage of population volunteering time, 2011.

Volunteering time ranking	Country	Volunteering time (%)
		Total population	Years old
			15–24	25–34	35–49	50+
1	Turkmenistan	61	64	62	60	59
4	Tajikistan	44	40	49	48	38
7	Uzbekistan	41	39	40	47	37
13	Ireland	38	36	33	38	40
15	Netherlands	37	31	31	38	40
16	Kyrgyzstan	36	37	35	43	27
18	Belarus	35	31	36	40	34
21	Slovenia	34	45	32	30	34
28	Finland	30	21	33	40	29
28	Ukraine	30	41	34	36	19
31	Luxembourg	29	25	21	25	35
32	United Kingdom	28	33	21	28	29
37	Austria	27	24	31	27	26
37	France	27	22	18	27	31
42	Belgium	26	23	25	30	25
42	Cyprus	26	27	36	26	24
42	Germany	26	24	23	28	26
47	Kazakhstan	25	31	24	26	19
47	Malta	25	31	22	26	23
52	Denmark	24	17	18	24	28
58	Azerbaijan	23	25	26	23	19
58	Russian Fed.	23	30	23	24	18
64	Georgia	21	19	19	29	18
64	Rep. Moldova	21	20	33	24	12
78	Czech Rep.	18	18	22	21	14
78	Latvia	18	13	19	23	15
78	Spain	18	18	18	20	16
92	Slovakia	16	14	19	15	16
99	Estonia	15	13	20	16	13
101	Italy	14	16	12	18	11
110	Poland	13	17	17	10	11
119	Armenia	11	12	14	12	8
119	Sweden	11	10	15	12	11
127	Portugal	10	9	17	9	9
133	Lithuania	9	11	3	14	7
135	Hungary	8	5	12	8	9
146	Bulgaria	5	6	3	10	4
146	Romania	5	10	4	3	4
153	Greece	3	2	2	6	2

“Volunteering time in %” is a proportion of respondents that have positively responded to the question: “Have you volunteered your time to an organization (in the past month)?”
Source: [30].