List of development aid country donors
International development aid is given by many non-private donors. The first table is based on official development assistance (ODA) figures published by the OECD for members of its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Non-DAC members included in the OECD's publishing are listed separately.
Luxembourg made the largest contribution as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) at 1.05% and the United Nations’ ODA target of 0.7% of GNI was also exceeded by Norway (1.02%), Sweden (0.99%) and Denmark (0.71%).[1] The European Union accumulated a higher portion of GDP as a form of foreign aid than any other economic union.[2]
The United States is a small contributor relative to GNI (0.18% 2016[3]) but is the largest single DAC donor of ODA in 2019 (US$34.6 billion), followed by Germany (0.6% GNI, US$23.8 billion), the United Kingdom (0.7%, US$19.4 billion), Japan (0.2%, US$15.5 billion) and France (0.4%, US$12.2 billion). Many providers beyond the DAC have long traditions of development cooperation. Amongst these, according to the preliminary figures for 2019 reported to the OECD, Turkey exceeded the 0.7% ODA/GNI target with 1.15%.[1]
Net official development assistance by donor
To qualify as official development assistance, a contribution must contain three elements:
- Be undertaken by the official sector (that is, a government or government agency);
- With promotion of economic development and welfare as the main objective;
- At concessional financial terms (that is, with favorable loan terms.)
Thus, by definition, ODA does not include private donations.
The sum of contributions by EU member states, considered separately from EU institutions, was $73.80 billion.[4]
The OECD's Development Assistance Committee members' total budget reached 152.8 billion dollars and was contributed by the following donors in 2019:[1]
Donor | Total development aid | Development aid per capita |
% of GNI |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $34.62 billion | $95.52 | 0.16 |
United Kingdom | $19.37 billion | $284.85 | 0.70 |
Germany | $23.81 billion | $214.73 | 0.60 |
European Union institutions | $14.827 billion[5] | $27.03 | |
Japan | $15.51 billion[6] | $73.58 | 0.29 |
France | $12.18 billion | $137.35 | 0.44 |
Sweden | $5.40 billion | $701.10 | 0.99 |
Netherlands | $5.29 billion | $338.38 | 0.59 |
Canada | $6.4 billion[7] | $170.25 | 0.27 |
Norway | $4.29 billion | $812.58 | 1.02 |
Italy | $4.9 billion | $63.38 | 0.24 |
Switzerland | $3.09 billion | $421.37 | 0.44 |
Australia | $2.95 billion | $129.92 | 0.22 |
Denmark | $2.55 billion | $447.05 | 0.71 |
South Korea | $2.52 billion | $37.13 | 0.15 |
Belgium | $2.18 billion | $167.20 | 0.42 |
Spain | $2.90 billion | $34.52 | 0.21 |
Finland | $1.13 billion | $234.13 | 0.42 |
Austria | $1.21 billion | $137.59 | 0.27 |
Ireland | $0.94 billion | $151.2 | 0.31 |
Poland | $0.68 billion | $11.45 | 0.12 |
New Zealand | $0.56 billion | $90.75 | 0.28 |
Luxembourg | $0.47 billion | $609.48 | 1.05 |
Portugal | $0.37 billion | $30.07 | 0.16 |
Greece | $0.31 billion | $25.04 | 0.14 |
Czech Republic | $0.31 billion | $18.85 | 0.13 |
Slovak Republic | $0.13 billion | $16.56 | 0.12 |
Slovenia | $0.09 billion | $29.04 | 0.16 |
Iceland | $0.07 billion | $120.29 | 0.27 |
Non-DAC members reported the following figures:
Donor | Total development aid | Development aid per capita |
% of GNI |
---|---|---|---|
China | $38 billion [8][9][10] | $27.86 | 0.36 |
India | $30.66 billion [11] | $21.24 | 0.65 |
UAE | $12.24 billion | $467 | 0.55 |
Turkey | $8.652 billion | $47 | 1.15 |
Qatar | $2 billion [12] | $757.80 | 1.17 |
Russia | $1.14 billion | $8 | 0.03 |
Israel | $0.28 billion | $24 | 0.07 |
Hungary | $0.15 billion | $15 | 0.1 |
Croatia | $0.05 billion | $12 | 0.14 |
Lithuania | $0.06 billion | $14 | 0.11 |
Estonia | $0.04 billion | $23 | 0.13 |
Latvia | $0.03 billion | $10 | 0.10 |
Malta | $0.04 billion | $22 | 0.3 |
References
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Bibliography
- OECD (13 April 2016). "Development aid in 2015 continues to grow despite costs for in-donor refugees" (PDF). OECD. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
External links
- "Development finance statistics". OECD.
- "Development aid rises again in 2015, spending on refugees doubles". OECD.
- "Development and cooperation". European Union. 2016-06-16.
- "Budget". USAID. 2019-03-11.
- "Provisional UK official development assistance as a proportion of gross national income: 2015" (PDF). DFID (UK aid).