Table 3 Sources of the data for the study

Organ donation data

International Registry of Organ Donation and Transplantation*

http://www.irodat.org/ (accessed 19/08/2013)

No: http://www.irodat.org/?p=about

GDP per capita (US$)

International Monetary Fund (2013), World Economic Outlook database, Data and Statistics IMF*

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/weodata/download.aspx (accessed 12/08/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

The World Bank: GDP per capita: World Development Indicators

http://data.worldbank.org (accessed 12/08/2013)

No:http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/0,,contentMDK:22547097~pagePK:50016803~piPK:50016805~theSitePK:13,00.html

Legal system

Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook*

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2100.html#133 (accessed 19/08/2013)

No:https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/contributor_copyright.html

Catholicism

Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook*

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html#195 (accessed 12/08/2013)

No: see above link for Legal System

U.S. Department of State

http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2010/index.htm (accessed 12/08/2013)

No:http://www.state.gov/misc/87529.htm#copyright

RTA mortality rate

Global status report on road safety: time for action. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2009*

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2009 (accessed 12/08/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

Based on data from `OECD (2010), IRTAD Road Safety Annual Report 2009, OECD Publishing’

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789282102824-en (accessed 12/08/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

Hong Kong Road Safety Council

http://www.roadsafety.gov.hk/annual_report/2006/eng/foreword.html (accessed 12/08/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportations and Communications

http://www.motc.gov.tw/en/home.jsp?id=255&parentpath=0,150,250 (accessed 12/08/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

Population

U.S. Census Bureau*

www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php (accessed 13/08/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

Helping a stranger

Charities Aid Foundation (2010, 2011, 2012), World Giving Index*

https://www.cafonline.org/pdf/WorldGivingIndex28092010Print.pdf (accessed 13/08/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

This is based on data from Gallup’s WorldView World Poll

https://www.cafonline.org/pdf/World_Giving_Index_2011_191211.pdf (accessed 13/08/2013)

Yes: see above information for World Giving Index 2010

https://www.cafonline.org/PDF/WorldGivingIndex2012WEB.pdf (accessed 13/08/2013)

Yes: see above information for World Giving Index 2010

Hospital beds

World Health Report: health systems: essential health technologies. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2013*

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.70?lang=en (accessed 30/09/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

National Statistics Republic of China (Taiwan)

http://eng.stat.gov.tw/lp.asp?ctNode=2267&CtUnit=1072&BaseDSD=36&MP=5 (accessed 30/09/2013)

Yes: Permission Sought and Attained

Information Services Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government

http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/public_health.pdf (accessed 30/09/2013)

No:http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/public_health.pdf

The World Bank: Hospital beds (per 1,000 people): World Health Organization

http://data.worldbank.org (accessed 30/09/2013)

No: see above link for GDP per capita for The World Bank