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477 Public expenditure for development aid and international, humanitarian relief work. NOK million
  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Total 14 815 17 995 18 827 21 808 22 862 25 624 26 424 26 653 27 644
                   
General expenditure, administration in Norway and abroad  793  885 1 041 1 118 1 222 1 387 1 452 1 503 1 537
Bilateral assistance1 6 936 7 885 8 635 10 402 10 372 12 132 12 357 12 674 12 852
Multi-bi assistance2, 3 2 913 4 644 4 072 4 721 5 212 5 808 6 206 5 784 6 311
Multilateral assistance 4 173 4 581 5 079 5 568 6 056 6 296 6 409 6 692 6 944
                   
Specifications                  
Bilateral humanitarian relief work 1 091 2 227 1 471 1 733 1 760 1 398 2 161 2 115 1 949
Total development assistance in per cent of gross national income 0.87 0.94 0.89 0.95 0.89 1.06 1.05 0.96 0.93
1  Bilateral assistance includes aid channeled through public and private sector, and non-governmental organisations.
2  Development activities financed by one or more countries but implemented by a multilateral organisation or agency.
3  All multilateral funds and programmes with thematic association are from 2007 registered as multibilateral assistance. Some of these were earlier registered as multilateral assistance.
Source: The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).
More information:  http://www.norad.no/ 

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