NationMaster - Economic aid > Donor (most recent) by country

Rank	Countries	Amount (top to bottom)
#1	United Kingdom:	$10,700,000,000.00
#2	France:	$10,100,000,000.00
#3	Japan:	$8,900,000,000.00
#4	United States:	$6,900,000,000.00
#5	Germany:	$5,600,000,000.00
#6	Netherlands:	$4,000,000,000.00
#7	Canada:	$2,600,000,000.00
#8	Denmark:	$2,130,000,000.00
#9	Sweden:	$1,700,000,000.00
#10	Norway:	$1,400,000,000.00
#11	Spain:	$1,330,000,000.00
#12	Switzerland:	$1,100,000,000.00
#13	Belgium:	$1,072,000,000.00
#14	Italy:	$1,000,000,000.00
#15	Australia:	$894,000,000.00
#16	Finland:	$850,536,746.49
#17	Korea, South:	$744,000,000.00
#18	Austria:	$681,000,000.00
#19	Ireland:	$607,000,000.00
#20	Portugal:	$271,000,000.00
#21	Luxembourg:	$235,590,000.00
#22	Iceland:	$6,700,000.00
	Total:	$62,821,826,746.49
	Weighted average:	$2,855,537,579.39

DEFINITION: The net official development assistance (ODA) from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations to developing countries and multilateral organizations. ODA is defined as financial assistance that is concessional in character, has the main objective to promote economic development and welfare of the less developed countries (LDCs), and contains a grant element of at least 25%. The entry does not cover other official flows (OOF) or private flows.

SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

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COMMENTARY

John Galt
2nd October 2005

You forgot the top giver.

From a National review article by Bruce Bartlett - According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, in 2003, the world’s major countries gave $108.5 billion in combined foreign aid. Of this, the U.S. contributed $37.8 billion, or 35 percent, of the total. The next largest foreign-aid contributor was the Netherlands, which gave $12.2 billion, following two years in which it was actually a net recipient of foreign aid.

Former U.S. Agency for International Development official Carol Adelman attempted to calculate a total of all private foreign aid in 2000 in a 2003 Foreign Affairs magazine article. She found that private foreign aid greatly exceeded that provided by the U.S. government. Official aid came to $22.6 billion that year, but private aid came to $35.1 billion, including $18 billion in remittances, $6.6 billion from private voluntary organizations, $3.4 billion in aid from churches, $3 billion from foundations, $2.8 from corporations, and $1.3 billion from universities.

In short, the charge of stinginess is unfounded. The U.S. carries much of the world on its back, providing other nations with security, aid, and much of their investment and income. It also pays for a fourth of all the salaries of U.N. bureaucrats.

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200501031119.asp

Kilgore Trout (USA)
18th October 2007

No what your missing is that the majority of US aid to foreign countries is in the form of Military aid which is not included in this list. We give almost 2 billion a year in military aid to Israel alone, but only the 1.2 billion in economic aid would be included on this graph, read the info at the bottom people.

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