List of development aid sovereign state 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 (0.22% 2022 ^[3] ) but is the largest single DAC donor of ODA in 2022 (US$55.3 billion), followed by Germany (0.8% GNI, US$35.0 billion), France (0.7%, US$19.5 billion) and Japan (0.3%, US$17.3 billion). ^[4] 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:

1. Be undertaken by the official sector (that is, a government or government agency);
2. With promotion of economic development and welfare as the main objective;
3. At concessional financial terms (that is, with favorable loan terms.)

Thus, by definition, ODA does not include private donations, nor any development loans at market rates. The sum of contributions by EU member states, considered separately from EU institutions, was over $70 billion. ^[5] The OECD's Development Assistance Committee members' total budget reached around 150 billion dollars and was contributed by the following donors in 2019: ^[1]

DAC members

Donor	Total development aid (millions $)	Development aid per capita ($)	% of GNI	Ref.
Australia	2,950	129.92	0.22
Austria	1,210	137.59	0.27
Belgium	2,180	167.20	0.42
Canada	6,400	170.25	0.27	[6]
Czech Republic	310	18.85	0.13
Denmark	2,550	447.05	0.71
EU institutions	14,827	27.03	–	[a] [7]
Finland	1,130	234.13	0.42
France	19,570	294.18	0.78	[8]
Germany	35,020	417.36	0.83	[9]
Greece	310	25.04	0.14
Iceland	70	120.29	0.27
Ireland	940	151.20	0.31
Italy	4,900	63.38	0.24
Japan	17,470	137.58	0.39	[10]
Luxembourg	470	609.48	1.05
Netherlands	5,290	338.38	0.59
New Zealand	560	90.75	0.28
Norway	4,290	812.58	1.02
Poland	680	11.45	0.12
Portugal	370	30.07	0.16
Slovak Republic	130	16.56	0.12
Slovenia	90	29.04	0.16
South Korea	2,520	37.13	0.15
Spain	2,900	44.52	0.21
Sweden	5,400	701.10	0.99
Switzerland	4,290	421.37	0.44
United Kingdom	5,750	87.12	0.18	[11]
United States	55,270	165.47	0.22	[12]

Non-DAC members

Donor	Total development aid (millions $)	Development aid per capita ($)	% of GNI	Ref.
China	38,000	27.86	0.36	[13] [14] [15]
India	33,000	21.24	0.65	[b] [16] [17]
United Arab Emirates	12,240	467.00	0.55
Brazil	10,800	54.77	0.56
Turkey	8,652	47.00	1.15
Mexico	5,500	38.77	0.46
Argentina	3,300	68.23	0.62
Qatar	2,000	757.80	1.17	[18]
Chile	1,700	76.23	0.58
Russia	1,140	8.00	0.03
Israel	1,120	96.00	0.07
Taiwan	502	21.30	0.07	[19] [20] [21] [22]
Romania	411	22.00	0.14
Hungary	150	15.00	0.10
Bulgaria	130	20.00	0.20
Lithuania	60	14.00	0.11
Croatia	50	12.00	0.14
Estonia	40	23.00	0.13
Malta	40	22.00	0.30
Latvia	30	10.00	0.10

See also

• List of countries by Official Development Assistance received

Notes

1. Excluding EU members.
2. $2.4 billion grants + $30.59 billion LOC

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• "Development finance statistics". OECD.
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