List of development aid country donors
This is a list of countries by spending on development aid. The list is based on official development assistance (ODA) figures published by the OECD for countries that are members of its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Non-DAC members included in the OECD's publishing are listed separately.
The largest donor countries in 2015 were the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and France. Sweden made the largest contribution as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) at 1.40% and the United Nations’ ODA target of 0.7% of GNI was also exceeded by the UAE, Norway, Luxembourg, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.[1]
Net official development assistance by country in 2015
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 OECD's Development Assistance Committee members' total budget reached 132 billion dollars in 2015 and was contributed by the following countries:[1]
- European Union – $87.64 billion[2]
- United States – $31.08 billion
- United Kingdom – $18.70 billion
- Germany – $17.78 billion
- Japan – $9.32 billion
- France – $9.23 billion
- Sweden – $7.09 billion
- Netherlands – $5.81 billion
- Canada – $4.29 billion
- Norway – $4.28 billion
- Italy – $3.84 billion
- Switzerland – $3.54 billion
- Australia – $3.22 billion
- Denmark – $2.57 billion
- South Korea – $1.91 billion
- Belgium – $1.89 billion
- Spain – $1.60 billion
- Finland – $1.29 billion
- Austria – $1.21 billion
- Ireland – $0.72 billion
- Poland – $0.44 billion
- New Zealand – $0.44 billion
- Luxembourg – $0.36 billion
- Portugal – $0.31 billion
- Greece – $0.28 billion
- Czech Republic – $0.20 billion
- Slovak Republic – $0.09 billion
- Slovenia – $0.06 billion
- Iceland – $0.04 billion
Non-DAC members reported the following figures to the OECD in 2015:[1]
- United Arab Emirates – $4.39 billion
- Turkey – $3.91 billion
- Russia – $1.14 billion
- Israel – $0.21 billion
- Hungary – $0.15 billion
- Croatia – $0.05 billion
- Lithuania – $0.04 billion
- Estonia – $0.03 billion
- Latvia – $0.02 billion
- Malta – $0.01 billion
Notes:
- India, which had a foreign aid budget of $1.6 billion in 2015-6,[4] does not submit figures to the OECD.
Net official development assistance by country as a percentage of gross national income in 2015
The OECD also lists Development Assistance Committee members by the amount of ODA they spend as a percentage of their gross national income:[1]
- Sweden – 1.40%
- Norway – 1.05%
- Luxembourg – 0.93%
- Denmark – 0.85%
- Netherlands – 0.76%
- United Kingdom – 0.71%
- Finland – 0.56%
- Switzerland – 0.52%
- Germany – 0.52%
- Belgium – 0.42%
- France – 0.37%
- Ireland – 0.36%
- Austria – 0.32%
- Canada – 0.28%
- New Zealand – 0.27%
- Australia – 0.27%
- Iceland – 0.24%
- Japan – 0.22%
- Italy – 0.21%
- United States – 0.17%
- Portugal – 0.16%
- Slovenia – 0.15%
- Greece – 0.14%
- South Korea – 0.14%
- Spain – 0.13%
- Czech Republic – 0.12%
- Slovak Republic – 0.10%
- Poland – 0.10%
Non-DAC members reported the following figures to the OECD in 2015:[1]
- United Arab Emirates – 1.09%
- Turkey – 0.54%
- Malta – 0.15%
- Estonia – 0.15%
- Hungary – 0.13%
- Lithuania – 0.11%
- Latvia – 0.09%
- Israel – 0.07%
- Russia – 0.06%
Notes:
- European Union average – 0.47%[5]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Development aid in 2015 continues to grow despite costs for in-donor refugees" (PDF). OECD. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ↑ EU Institutions $13.85 billion, EU member states $73.80 billion.[3]
- ↑ Source: Table 1, page 6. Quote, page 3: "In 2015, total net ODA from the 28 EU member states was USD 74 billion, representing 0.47% of their GNI. Net disbursements by EU Institutions were USD 13.8 billion, a slight fall of 0.5% in real terms compared to 2014."
- ↑ "India's 2015-16 foreign aid budget: Where the money is going". Devex. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ↑ Page 3, excluding the $13.85 billion net disbursements by EU Institutions.
External links
- "Development finance statistics". OECD.
- "Development aid rises again in 2015, spending on refugees doubles". OECD.
- "Development and cooperation". European Union.
- "Budget". USAID.
- "Provisional UK official development assistance as a proportion of gross national income: 2015" (PDF). DFID (UK aid).