List of development aid country donors


International development aid is given by many non-private donors. The first table is based on official development assistance figures published by the OECD for members of its Development Assistance Committee. Non-DAC members included in the OECD's publishing are listed separately.
Sweden made the largest contribution as a percentage of gross national income at 1.40% and the United Nations’ ODA target of 0.7% of GNI was also exceeded by the UAE, Norway, Luxembourg, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The European Union accumulated a higher portion of GDP as a form of foreign aid than any other economic union. The largest donor countries in 2015 were the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and France, though China, acting outside the DAC apparatus, made higher donations overall than any individual country, with more than double the GNI percentage of the United States.

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 ;
  2. With promotion of economic development and welfare as the main objective;
  3. At concessional financial terms
Thus, by definition, ODA does not include private donations.
The sum of contributions by EU member states, considered separately from EU institutions, was $73.80 billion.
The OECD's Development Assistance Committee members' total budget reached 132 billion dollars and was contributed by the following donors:
DonorTotal development aidDevelopment aid per capita% of GNI
$31.08 billion$95.520.15
$18.70 billion$284.850.67
$17.78 billion$214.730.49
institutions$13.85 billion$27.03
$10.4 billion$73.580.21
$9.23 billion$137.350.36
$7.09 billion$701.101.36
$5.81 billion$338.380.76
$4.29 billion$122.040.25
$4.28 billion$812.581.14
$3.84 billion$63.380.21
$3.54 billion$421.370.68
$3.22 billion$129.920.26
$2.57 billion$447.050.9
$1.91 billion$37.130.09
$1.89 billion$167.200.4
$1.60 billion$34.520.12
$1.29 billion$234.130.55
$1.21 billion$137.590.31
$0.72 billion$151.20.22
$0.44 billion$11.450.09
$0.44 billion$90.750.2
$0.36 billion$609.480.61
$0.31 billion$30.070.15
$0.28 billion$25.040.13
$0.20 billion$18.850.1
$0.09 billion$16.560.1
$0.06 billion$29.040.12
$0.04 billion$120.290.22

Non-DAC members reported the following figures:
DonorTotal development aidDevelopment aid per capita% of GNI
China$38 billion$27.860.36
UAE$4.39 billion$4670.63
$3.91 billion$470.17
Qatar$2 billion$757.801.17
$1.60 billion$1.250.076
$1.14 billion$80.03
$0.21 billion$240.06
$0.15 billion$150.1
$0.05 billion$120.14
$0.04 billion$140.08
$0.03 billion$230.11
$0.02 billion$100.07
$0.01 billion$220.1

Net official development assistance by country as a percentage of GNI

The OECD also lists Development Assistance Committee members by the amount of ODA they spend as a percentage of their gross national income:
  1. – 1.40%
  2. – 1.05%
  3. – 0.93%
  4. – 0.85%
  5. – 0.76%
  6. – 0.71%
  7. – 0.56%
  8. – 0.52%
  9. – 0.52%
  10. – 0.42%
  11. – 0.37%
  12. – 0.36%
  13. – 0.32%
  14. – 0.28%
  15. – 0.27%
  16. – 0.27%
  17. – 0.24%
  18. – 0.22%
  19. – 0.21%
  20. – 0.17%
  21. – 0.16%
  22. – 0.15%
  23. – 0.14%
  24. – 0.14%
  25. – 0.13%
  26. – 0.12%
  27. – 0.10%
  28. – 0.10%
Non-DAC members reported the following figures
Notes: