Editing Development aid (section)

==Extent==
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Most development aid is counted as part of the official development assistance (ODA) reported by governments to the OECD. The total amount of ODA in 2018 was about $150 billion.<ref name=":25">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Development aid drops in 2018, especially to neediest countries|url=http://www.oecd.org/development/development-aid-drops-in-2018-especially-to-neediest-countries.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410230451/http://www.oecd.org/development/development-aid-drops-in-2018-especially-to-neediest-countries.htm |archive-date=10 April 2019 |access-date=29 January 2021|website=OECD}}</ref> For the same year, the OECD estimated that six to seven billion dollars of aid was given by ten other states, including China and India.<ref name=":26">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Other official providers not reporting to the OECD|url=https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/18b00a44-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/18b00a44-en#chapter-d1e45724|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210025747/https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/18b00a44-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/18b00a44-en |archive-date=10 February 2021 |access-date=29 January 2021|website=OECD}}</ref> However, these amounts include aid that is humanitarian in character as well as purely developmental aid. The proportion of development aid within ODA was about 80%.<ref name=":23" />

The OECD classifies ODA development aid by sector, the main sectors being: education, health (including population policies, water supply and sanitation), government & civil society, economic infrastructure (including transport and energy), and production (including agriculture). Additionally, there are "cross-cutting" aims; for instance, environmental protection, gender equality, urban and rural development concerns.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Aid (ODA) by sector and donor [DAC5] |url=https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?datasetcode=TABLE5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611033350/http://stats.oecd.org:80/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLE5 |archive-date=11 June 2009 |access-date=6 February 2021 |website=OECD}}</ref>

Some governments include military assistance in the notion of ''foreign aid'', although the international community does not usually regard military aid as development aid.

Development aid is widely seen as a major way to meet [[Sustainable Development Goal 1]] (to end poverty in all its forms everywhere) for the developing nations. 

=== Top recipient countries ===
{{Main list|List of countries by Official Development Assistance received
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[Official development assistance|ODA]] received, total for nine years, 2010-2018<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.oecd.org/qwids/#?x=2&y=6&f=3:51,4:1,1:2,5:3,7:1&q=3:51+4:1+1:2+5:3+7:1+2:1,262,263,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,189,25,27,28,31,29,30,287,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,89,40,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,166,59,273,62,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,78,79,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,90,274,91,92,93,95,96,97,98,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,63,130,131,132,133,135,136,137,138,139,141,144,159,160,161,162,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,154,155,156,157,275,158,163,164,165,167,168,169,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,184,185,186,187,188,190,134,191,192,193,216,217,218,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,195,196,233,197,238,198,200,234,235,201,202,271,203,204,208,205,237,236,270,267,265,266,272,209,210,211,212,213,215,G1+6:2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |title=QWIDS Query Wizard for International Development Statistics |website=OECD |access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref>
|-
! Country !! [[US$]], billions
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| {{flag|Afghanistan}}|| 37.6
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| {{flag|India}}||18.1
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| {{flag|Ethiopia}}||17.6
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| {{flag|Vietnam}}||17.4
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| {{flag|Pakistan}}||15.8
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| {{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}||15.6
|-
| {{flag|Iraq}}||14.7
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| {{flag|Tanzania}}||14.3
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| {{flag|Kenya}}||13.9
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| {{flag|Syria}}||13.3
|}

=== Top donor countries ===
{{Main list|List of development aid country donors
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Total [[Official development assistance|ODA]] disbursed in decade 2010-2019<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.oecd.org/qwids/#?x=1&y=6&f=4:1,2:1,3:51,5:3,7:1&q=4:1+2:1+3:51+5:3+7:1+1:2,3,4,5,6,58,7,8,9,10,11,59,60,12,13,14,61,15,16,17,18,62,19,63,75,20,21,22,23,24,36,G2+6:2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 (current US$) |title=QWIDS Query Wizard for International Development Statistics|website=OECD |access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref>
|-
! Country !! [[US$]], billions
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| {{flag|United States}}||323
|-
| {{flag|Germany}}||188
|-
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}||171
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| {{flag|France}}||115
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| {{flag|Japan}}||107
|-
| {{flag|Sweden}}||56
|-
| {{flag|Netherlands}}||56
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| {{flag|Canada}}||47
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| {{flag|Norway}}||46
|-
| {{flag|Italy}}||42
|}

The OECD also lists countries by the amount of ODA they give ''as a percentage of their [[gross national income]]''. The top 10 DAC countries in 2020 were as follows. Six countries met the longstanding UN target for an ODA/GNI ratio of 0.7% in 2020:<ref name="OECD-2020">{{cite web|title=Development co-operation during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of 2020 figures and 2021 trends to watch|url=https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org//sites/e4b3142a-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/5e331623-en&_csp_=b14d4f60505d057b456dd1730d8fcea3&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=chapter#annex-d1e2951|publisher=OECD|access-date=12 June 2021|date=16 June 2021}}</ref>

# {{flag|Sweden}} – 1.14%
# {{flag|Norway}} – 1.11%
# {{flag|Luxembourg}} – 1.02%
# {{flag|Denmark}} and {{flag|Germany}} – 0.73%
# {{flag|United Kingdom}} – 0.7%
# {{flag|Netherlands}} – 0.59%
# {{flag|France}} – 0.53%
# {{flag|Switzerland}} – 0.48%
# {{flag|Belgium}} and {{flag|Finland}} – 0.47%
# {{flag|Canada}}, {{flag|Ireland}} and {{flag|Japan}}– 0.31%

[[European Union]] countries that are members of the [[Development Assistance Committee]] gave 0.42% of GNI (excluding the US$19.4 billion given by EU Institutions).<ref name="OECD-2020" />

===By type of project===
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File:Total official flows for infrastructure, by recipient, OWID.svg|Total official development assistance (ODA) and other official flows from all donors in support of infrastructure in 2017
File:Total official flows commitments for Aid for Trade, by recipient, OWID.svg|Total official flows commitments for aid for trade in 2017
File:Total official financial flows for water supply and sanitation, by recipient, OWID.svg|Total water and sanitation-related Official Development Assistance (ODA) disbursements that are included in the government budget in 2015
File:Total official development assistance for biodiversity, by recipient, OWID.svg|Total official development assistance (ODA) transferred for use in biodiversity conservation and protection efforts 2017
File:Total official development assistance for biodiversity, by donor, OWID.svg|Total official development assistance for biodiversity, by donor in 2017
File:Total official flows commitments for Aid for Trade, by donor, OWID.svg|Total official flows commitments for Aid for Trade, by donor in 2015
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