I'm thinking about quality of life measures such as infant mortality, life expectancy, car crashes (just pulling a few things out of the hat), policy on global warming, etc. Not charitable contributions but actual charity. Also, I was talking about charity towards our own people.
While it doesn't tell the whole store, in financial terms the US leads the world in per capital charitable contributions (by a significant margin).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charitabl...