Have you considered donating blood?
According to WHO, blood donation by 1% of the population can meet a nation’s most basic requirements for blood. We have asked our panel members whether or not they donate blood.
With 35 percent, the majority of the panel members that donate blood today or previously have donated are from Finland. This figure is closely followed by Ireland, where 34 percent are either donating now or used to do it.
In Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the majority of the ones that donate blood do it on a regular basis. For instance, 2 percent of the Norwegian panel members have chosen the option "Yes, but not on a regular basis", whereas 11 percent have chosen "Yes, on a regular basis". In Finland and Ireland, it is the other way around. 9 percent in both countries have thus chosen "Yes, on a regular basis", however, 17 percent in Finland and 11 percent in Ireland respectively say that they do donate blood but not on a regular basis.
On WHO's website it reads: "Of the 112.5 million blood donations collected globally, approximately half of these are collected in the high-income countries, home to 19% of the world's population." In other words, a lot of people from high-income countries are blood donors. The answers given by Userneeds' panel members reflect this, as the percentage saying "No, I do not want to donate blood" lies between 13-22 percent and therefore is lower than the percentage in each country that either used to donate or is donating now.
30 percent in Finland and Ireland, 31 percent in Sweden and Norway, and finally 38 percent in Denmark have stated that they cannot or are not allowed to donate blood. Fortunately, many people who are able to donate are also planning on doing it. 12 percent of our Danish panel members are for example planning on becoming blood donors and 23 percent in Ireland are considering the same thing.
And who knows, perhaps this will happen on 14th of June 2017, which is the World Blood Donor Day.
