Foreign aid may be given as a signal of diplomatic approval, or to strengthen a military ally. The United Kingdom's aid budget is to be effectively cut by 580 million ($800 million) in 2022, after it was revealed that canceling debt owed by Sudan will count toward the nation's reduced . See the case study in SID 2018 (p. 34) for more information on Developing country, unspecified ODA. It shows: Figure 18: Map of the top 15 highest recipients of total DAC Members bilateral ODA Spend and UKs Share by Country, 2018. The BBC World Service aims through journalism to contribute to accountability and good governance and improve the welfare and economic development of citizens in developing countries. While FCDO will manage its own spending on ODA, FCDO has no control over GNI nor the spending by other government departments and other sources of ODA. The Development Tracker can be used to explore details of the individual development projects that the UK is funding. Seven of the top ten country-specific ODA increases from 2018 were seen in LDC/Other LICs (Yemen, Bangladesh, South Sudan, Uganda, Afghanistan, Mozambique and Zambia), LDCs and Other LICs continue to account for the largest proportion of bilateral country-specific ODA spend in 2019 at 56.4%, UK ODA to LMICs represented 29.7 per cent (1,488m) of UK country specific bilateral ODA in 2019, compared to 32.3% (1,458m) in 2018, total UK bilateral ODA received by UMICs increased by 136 million to 694 million in 2019. These shares are similar to 2018, UK bilateral ODA spend to the top 5 recipient countries in 2019 increased from 1,409 million in 2018 to 1,415 million in 2019. This chapter provides an overview of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA). The portion of Gift Aid claimed by UK based international development charities that is then used on ODA eligible activities. BBC World Service contributes to the BBCs international news mission to address the global gap in provision of trusted news by broadcasting and distributing accurate, impartial and independent news and analysis in developing countries. Such spend comprises of, for example, centrally-funded research or programmes that develop policies which aim to benefit several developing countries. The nation paid 1 out of every 8 in foreign aid given by 29 major countries, figures reveal. An area of bilateral spend which increased in 2019 was DFIDs capital injection to CDC, the UKs Development Finance Institution, which increased by 266 million. Designation means the statistics carry the National Statistics label and conform to the standards summarised below. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) implemented a new methodology for calculating GDP in its September 2019 Blue Book (the UK National Account statistics), that in turn had an impact on Gross National Income (GNI). The ONS produce estimates for UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNI) on a quarterly basis. The OECD has set the benchmark for foreign aid by country at 0.7% of its gross national income (GNI). Prior to the anniversary, the US was Ukraine 's biggest backer, offering around $80billion (66.8bn) in aid, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a global tracker of aid sent to Kyiv, found . This source is useful when carrying out international comparisons. For information on the work of the UK Statistics Authority visit: https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/. 2. This could have an impact on the recent trends of some recipient countries. The increase in bilateral spend was the largest increase seen since 2016, when the UK switched to the ESA 2010 methodology for GNI estimates, 3,066 million of bilateral ODA was delivered through multilateral organisations, an increase of 294 million compared to 2018. Table 3: Top Twenty Recipients of UK Core Funding to Multilateral Organisations - Multilateral ODA 2018 and 2019 This is an increase of 5 million from last year, with Fiji being the largest country specific recipient. Figure 17: DAC Donors Provisional ODA:GNI Ratio, 2018 and 2019[footnote 26]. This was the largest year-on-year increase compared to the other income groups, 43.0% of spend within this category consists of project-type interventions and includes expenditure on multi-country or multi-region projects. More of the UK's foreign aid budget is being spent in the UK rather than in poor developing countries, according to a report by Centre for Global Development (CGD). ODA spend allocated to Africa increased by 125 million increase in 2019 to 2,989 million, whilst the percentage share remained similar to the share in 2018 (50.6%), (Figure 4). Largest donors of humanitarian aid worldwide 2022, by country. This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2019/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2019. All data tables included in this report are available to download in spreadsheet format. Image: ODI. Bilateral ODA is earmarked spend, i.e. UK foreign aid spending in 2021/22. UK bilateral ODA spend was 9,533 million (65.8% of total UK . While there has been an increase since 2018, the total bilateral ODA to Africa remains below this peak (7m less than levels in 2017). Figure 13 provides a breakdown of sector spend by DFID and all Other Government Departments and other contributors of ODA (non-DFID). This publication confirms the UKs ODA:GNI ratio for the previous year, as well as including more detailed analysis of the UKs Bilateral and Multilateral ODA, and includes the microdata used to produce the publication. The GNI used to calculate the ODA:GNI ratio for 2019 is based on the pre-2019 Blue Book methodology. , Defined as ODA-eligible multilateral organisations for core (unearmarked) contributions by the OECD DAC, see http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/annex2.htm, The UK may also provide funding to these organisations for specific programmes, which would be recorded as bilateral spend through a multilateral organisation. For example, DFID contributed 112 million to the Global Partnership for Education, a multilateral organisation supporting close to 70 developing countries to ensure that every child receives a quality basic education, 11.8% was classed as Other, which includes Other Technical Assistance and Basket Funds. The UK ODA figures contained in this report are for 2019 ODA spending, when DFID and the FCO were separate departments, and as such, spend by these departments are reported separately. International development aid is given by many non-private donors. The UK provided the largest share of total DAC donor ODA to Pakistan (34%), three of the top 15 DAC ODA recipients received 5 per cent or less of their total ODA from the UK. United States foreign aid, also known as US foreign assistance consists of a variety of tangible and intangible forms of assistance the United States gives to other countries. The UK's foreign aid budget is being "raided" by the Home Office to cover the costs of hotel accommodation for refugees, a committee of MPs has claimed. This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This is unchanged from 2018. FCDO releases 2 editions of Statistics on International Development over the year: provisional UK Aid spend will be published in the spring and includes a preliminary estimate of the UKs ODA:GNI ratio for the previous calendar year. Spend in 2019 increased from 2018, with total bilateral ODA received by Asia being 126 million higher than the previous peak in 2016. Figure 1 legend: The blue bars are the UK ODA spend from 1970 to 2019, the pink line is the calculated ODA:GNI ratio from 1970 to 2019 and the grey dashed line is the 0.7% ODA:GNI target set by the United Nations General Assembly in 1970. Since 1970, the UN has set a target for donor countries to contribute 0.7% of their GNI to foreign aid. Additional Tables and Annexes are available. It also includes a summary of the government's current international development strategy and commentary on some of the issues affecting UK aid spending. Overall there has been a steady increase in the amount of UK ODA since 1970, with a spike in 2005 and 2006 which was driven by high levels of debt relief[footnote 2], and then a steep increase in 2013 (by 2.6 bn) when the UK Government first met the 0.7% ODA:GNI commitment. The UK's foreign aid spend will come down from 0.7% of national income to 0.5%. It also consists of ODA-eligible expenditure within donor countries, such as the ODA-eligible portion of costs to support asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia,[c] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA),[d] is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. The country names and numbers inside each bar are how the rank for that country compared to last year (2018), coloured in red if its decreased (with a red downward pointing arrow), green if its increased (with a green upward pointing arrow) and black if its unmoving (with black horizontal pointing arrow). Other Government Department data (including FCO data) are collected during May and June, and are quality assured over the summer. According to Full Fact, the UK spent $12.1bn on overseas aid in 2015 after the target was introduced. DEFRAs ODA programming supports the delivery of all four UK Aid Strategy objectives by strengthening global peace, security and governance, strengthening resilience and response to crises, promoting Global Prosperity and tackling extreme poverty and helping the worlds most vulnerable. Figure 8: Country-specific bilateral ODA by Income Group, 2009-2019. The opposite pattern emerges from non-DFID contributors, with Africas share of non-DFID region specific bilateral ODA in 2019 increasing (by 8.0 percentage points) compared to 2015, while the share received by Asia decreased (by 10.2 percentage points) over the same period. This support relates to the provision of publicly-funded education services for asylum seekers of compulsory school age. See humanitarian factsheet (p. 35) for more background. These extra details allow the ODA spend to be quality assured using guidance from OECD. Figures for DAC donors final 2019 ODA will be published in December. Figure 13: Bilateral ODA by Government Department and Major Sector, 2019. Section 3 - sectoral data on education, health and water supply & sanitation plus general data on other sectors. Economic Infrastructure and Services - 1,195 million (11.7%). The amount spent on aid also fell in 2020 due to the contraction of the economy, equivalent to around . 2019: The Americas received 244 million of UK bilateral ODA in 2019, a decrease of 111 million or 31.3% compared to 2018 (Figure 4). UK ODA spend includes DFID spend, ODA spend by government departments other than DFID and other sources of ODA (such as EU attribution and Gift Aid). Figure 3: Breakdown of UK ODA by contributor (2015, 2018 and 2019). The top 3 recipients of Humanitarian Aid spend were Yemen (219m), Syria (194m) and Bangladesh (125m). A small proportion of UK bilateral ODA goes to the Pacific (Figure 4). UK foreign aid spending in 2016. The majority of non-DFID country-specific ODA was channelled to Middle Income Countries 71.5% (440m to LMICs and 412m to UMICs), LDCs and Other LICs received 339 million of non-DFID bilateral ODA in 2019, this was an increase of 112 million compared to 2018. U.S. Foreign Assistance by Country. The Cross-Government Prosperity Fund promotes economic reform and development in recipient countries. The central theme of 2022 was the U.S. government's deploying of its sanctions, AML . In 2019, 97.1% of DFIDs region-specific bilateral ODA went to countries in Africa and Asia (4,224m). This was part of a UN pact including another 30 wealthy countries such as the United States, Japan, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The government's decision to cut aid spending [makes it] the only G7 country to do so. It also provides small grants to organisations based in Wales to promote development awareness. This follows a peak in 2017, in part driven by increased humanitarian assistance to conflict affected populations, South Sudan returned to the top 10 in 2019, becoming the third highest African recipient of UK bilateral country-specific ODA. For example, Afghanistan in 2018 was in 4th position, and in 2019 is in 3rd position (a change of +1). Second, while the transition economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia together . FCO remained the largest spender of CSSF ODA funds, (69.1% of total CSSF ODA). The remaining top recipients of UK ODA were Pakistan and Nigeria, Afghanistan remains the largest recipient of DAC country members ODA totalling 2.7 billion in 2018. Chart by Carbon Brief using Highcharts. Figure 16: Provisional ODA from DAC Donors, 2019. Within this major sector the top three spending areas were Research/Scientific institutions (358m), Multisector Aid (307m) and Environmental Policy and Administrative Management (208m). Multilateral organisations[footnote 18] are an essential part of the international system for humanitarian and development ODA. Correspondingly, 11 African countries featured in the UK's top 20 recipient countries. The quality assurance Annex 3 describes the steps that have been taken by FCDO statisticians to minimise these kinds of input errors, and to produce UK ODA statistics. II. The U.S. provides aid to countries that are recovering from war, developing countries, and countries that are strategically important to the U.S. To give users an understanding of the impact of the changes implemented in Blue Book 2019, the UK GNI measured on the new GDP framework leads to an ODA:GNI ratio of 0.70% in 2019, compared to 0.70% on the pre-Blue Book 2019 level. For example, delivering family planning services across Malawi through an NGO, 4,939 million of UK ODA spend was delivered through core contributions to multilateral organisations. For further information on development issues and FCDO policies, please contact the Public Enquiry Point on 020 7008 5000. In 2020, Britain spent 14.5bn on foreign aid, a figure that meets the 0.7 per cent target, according to provisional data published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in April. Dr Angela Clare. DWP spend also includes ODA-eligible benefits to refugees within the first 12 months of stay in the UK as part of the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) programme. Figure 13 legend: DFIDs and Other Government Departments and Other Contributors of ODA (non-DFID) spend by sector, 2019 ( million). Following the merger, the ODA statistics team will review the SID in light of this, including how to present and communicate ODA trends for reporting on 2020 ODA and beyond. The headline grant equivalent measure of UK ODA for 2019 was 15,197 million, compared to 15,179 million on the cash basis measurement (a difference of 0.1%). Table 3 shows the 20 multilateral organisations that received the most core funding (Multilateral ODA) from the UK in 2018 and 2019. It includes all low, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries, except for those that are members of the G8 or the European Union (including countries with a firm accession date for EU membership). While FCO remained the largest spender of Cross-Government Prosperity Fund ODA (accounting for 49.7%), DFIDs share rose from 12.3% in 2018 to 36.9% in 2019. The Central Emergency Response Fund is now in the top 5 recipients of UK multilateral ODA, DFID also provided the majority of the UKs core multilateral ODA, accounting for 81.9% (4,043m), a decrease on 2018 when DFID accounted for 85.5% (4,544m), BEIS was the largest non-DFID department to provide core multilateral ODA in 2019, accounting for 3.4% (167m), this includes their core contribution to the Clean Technology Fund (166.5m), over the last 5 years, the share of UK core funding to multilateral organisations from non-DFID contributors has fallen from 21.6% (967m) in 2015 to 18.1% (896m) in 2019. , For breakdowns of spend to the top 20 recipients, see Table 6 on the publication landing page. Ed Miliband, 9 June 2021. Figure 12 provides an overview of bilateral ODA by major sector in 2019, compared against 2018 spend. Aid spending was an estimated 3 billion lower in 2021 than 2020 (14.5 billion versus 11.5 B. Non-DAC members included in the OECD's publishing are listed separately. For example, the International Development Association (IDA), which is part of the World Bank Group, has been one of the largest recipients of UK multilateral ODA since 2013 and the UK remains its biggest donor. This article looks at statistics on aid spending and how it is being spent. Information on the main definitions and sources used in this publication can be found in Annexes 2 and 3 respectively of the Statistics on International Development publication. In 2022, the United States government donated over 12 billion U.S. dollars in humanitarian aid worldwide. The 2021 federal budget announced an additional $1.4 billion for international assistance over five years. Figure 1: UK ODA levels ( billions) and ODA:GNI ratios (%), 1970 - 2019. , The EU is also a DAC member but has not been included in this chapter. Total ODA from DAC country donors in 2019 was 119.7 billion (grant-equivalent measure), an increase from 115.1 billion in 2018. These shares should be taken as indicative estimates rather than exact amounts of funding, and they are dependent upon multilateral organisations returning disbursement data to the DAC. The strategy is published in the context of reduced UK aid spending and the Government's wider foreign policy intentions to increase UK efforts in Africa and the Indo-Pacific, partly in response to China. The tracker uses open data on development projects, compliant with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard, to show where funding by the UK Government and its partners is going and trace it through the delivery chain. [2] China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)announced in 2013is the flagship under which China has made hundreds of pledges to support different countries and . It covers the total amount of UK ODA spent in 2019, the calculation of the ODA:GNI ratio, longer-term spending trends, breakdowns of UK ODA spend by main delivery channel, and by Government Departments and other contributors. Figure 5: Map of UK Bilateral ODA Spend by Recipient Country: 2019. HMT ODA relates to a core contribution to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and development-related administrative costs.