Approximately how much money was raised in donations for Nepal?

• A. £87 million
• B. £8.7 million
• C. £870 million
• D. £870 thousand

Answer: (A)

Estimating the scale of donations after a major disaster. After a big event like Nepal, donations from the public and NGOs usually fall into a broad range of tens to hundreds of millions of pounds, depending on media coverage, fundraising campaigns, and donor goodwill. The amount that best fits that typical scale is £87 million, which is large enough to reflect widespread fundraising without being so large as to imply an extraordinary global surge. £8.7 million would be relatively small for a major disaster, £870 million is possible but less common for a single-country response, and £870 thousand is far too small for the level of international aid typically mobilized. So £87 million is the most plausible approximate amount.