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Foreign aid expenditure in OECD countries (discontinued), 2006

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Decline in OECD development aid

Preliminary figures from the OECD show that official development assistance (ODA) from OECD countries decreased by 4.5 per cent from 2005, corrected for price and exchange rate movements. For the OECD as a whole, this represents 0.31 per cent of the member countries' total gross national income (GNI).

Public expenditure on development aid 2006. Per cent of GNI.

Preliminary figures from the OECD show that official development assistance (ODA) from OECD countries in 2006 amounted to USD 104.4 billion, or 0.31 per cent of the member countries’ combined gross national income (GNI).

The level of development aid is usually measured as a percentage of GNI and is often used to compare countries’ expenditure on foreign aid. In 1970, the UN resolved that development aid should account for 0.7 of GNI. Norway, Sweden and Denmark achieved this goal relatively quickly in the 1970s. In 2006, only the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands and Luxembourg met the goal.

0.31 per cent of GNI

For the OECD as a whole, the percentage of GNI was 0.31 in 2006, compared with 0.33 per cent in 2005. Measured in US dollar, the decrease in development aid was 2.7 billion. The decrease was 4.5 per cent in real terms, corrected for price and exchange rate movements.

Debt relief grants more than tripled from 2004 to 2005, and amounted to USD 22.7 billion in 2005. In 2006, debt relief amounted to USD 18.9 billion. Without debt relief grants the development aid from the OECD decreased by 0.8 per cent from 2005 to 2006 in real terms, corrected for price and exchange rate movements.

US largest contributor

With USD 23.5 billion, the US was the largest contributor of all OECD countries in 2006, as in the previous five years. Japan was the largest contributor in the eight years before that. The US reduced its development aid by 18.2 per cent in real terms in 2006. US expenditure on development aid was 0.18 per cent of GNI in 2006.

Norway contributed 0.87 per cent of GNI

Norway’s development aid was 0.87 per cent of GNI in 2006, while the percentage in 2005 was 0.94. The expenditure on development aid increased by USD 0.2 billion to 3.0 billion in 2006. However, in real terms, corrected for price and exchange rate movements, this was a slight decrease of 1.9 per cent.

Official development assistance. 2005-2006
  Million US dollar Real per cent
change.1		 Real per cent change.1
Without debt relief grants
  2005 2006* Debt relief
grants in 2006*
Norway 2 786      2 954 23 -1.9 -2.6
Denmark 2 109 2 236  113 3.0 -0.8
Sweden 3 362 3 955  292 14.7 7.9
Canada 3 756 3 684  260 -9.9 -4.7
France 10 026 10 601 3 433 2.9 2.3
Italy 5 091 3 641 1 596 -30.6 -42.0
Japan 13 147 11 187 3 003 -9.1 -8.9
Netherlands 5 115 5 452  312 4.2 4.9
Germany 10 082 10 435 2 722 1.7 14.2
United Kingdom 10 772 12 459 3 503 11.7 19.5
United States 27 935 23 532 1 585 -18.2 -10.6
Others 12 918 14 285 2 032 - -
Total DAC  107 099  104 421 18 874 -4.5 -0.8
1  Taking account of both inflation and exchange rate movements.

For more information can be found on: http://www.oecd.org/development/ , http://www.norad.no/ , http://www.ssb.no/english/yearbook/tab/tab-480.html and http://www.ssb.no/english/yearbook/tab/tab-481.html .

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