Secular versus Religious Involvement in Charity and Volunteering

Charity differences between religious and secular people persist if we look at the actual amounts of donations and volunteering. Indeed, measures of the dollars given and occasions volunteered per year produce a yawning gap between the groups.

The average annual giving among the religious is $2,210 and $642 among the secular.

Similarly, religious people volunteer an average of 12 times per year,
secular people volunteer an average of 5.8 times.

Religious people are 33 percent of the population but make 52 percent of donations and 45 percent of times volunteered.

Secular people are 26 percent of the population but contribute 13 percent of the dollars and 17 percent of the times volunteered.