Top 10 Development Assistance Countries

November 26, 2009
By Development Crossing

one-dollar-billsIn 2007/2008, total World Official Development Assistance from the governments of the 22 richest industrialized countries and the EU totaled $121.3 billion ($85.9bn given direct to individual countries and $35.4bn given via international institutions such as the World Bank).  But who gave the most, who received it, and who gave the highest proportion of their gross national income?

Who Gives Most?

1.  United States  21.4%
2.  Germany  11.5%
3.  United Kingdom  9.4%
4.  France  9%
5.  Japan  7.7%
6.  Netherlands  5.7%
7.  Spain  5.4%
8.  Sweden  3.9%
9.  Canada  3.9%
10.  Italy  3.6%

Who gives the highest proportion of their gross national income?

1.  Sweden 0.98%
2.  Luxembourg 0.92%
3.  Norway 0.88%
4.  Denmark 0.82%
5.  Netherlands 0.8%
6.  Ireland 0.58%
7.  Belgium 0.58%
8.  Spain 0.433%
9.  United Kingdom 0.431%
10.  Finland 0.427%

Who received most overall aid?

1.  Iraq $8.9bn
2.  Afghanistan $2.9bn
3.  Tanzania $1.8bn
4.  Cameroon $1.6bn
5.  Sudan $1.6bn

Who received the most multilateral aid?

1.  Pakistan $1.2bn
2.  Ethiopia $1.1bn
3.  Palestinian Administrative Area $1bn
4.  Vietnam $979.1m
5.  Tanzania $972.5m

Source: Developments Magazine

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2 Responses to “ Top 10 Development Assistance Countries ”

  1. m.a.m. on November 28, 2009 at 3:09 am

    Hi. I’ve visited the magazine online but could not find the article referenced; the link above is to the website and not a report or dataset.

    Do you know the methodology of the study? I’m quite curious as to how these figures were arrived at and what counts as aid.

    Thanks.

  2. Development Crossing on November 28, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Thanks for the comment. The data is from a two-page spread in the actual magazine, unfortunately can’t find a link for it online either. It lists the sources simply as being DFID, OECD and UNDP.

    I’ll try to track down specific links, but in the mean time Wikipedia has an entry on Official Development Assistance that lists similar statistics for 2006:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_development_assistance

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