Dataset · OECD Development Assistance Committee
Net Official Development Assistance Received
58 years, 1966–2023 · 130 countries
Official development assistance is government aid designed to promote the economic development and welfare of poorer countries. Measured against national income, it shows how large a part aid plays in an economy.
This site holds every year from 1966 to 2023, read from OECD Development Assistance Committee’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Net Official Development Assistance Received · the file
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- Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2023
- Held
- 58 years · 7,412 rows
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0158 years
Every year
Every year comes from OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 58 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: oda-received-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 130 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 130 | 0 | |
Net ODA received (% of GNI)oda_receivedHeadline | The headline figure: Net ODA received (% of GNI). | Number · up to 17 decimals | -0.001 China101.780 Tuvalumiddle 2.579 | 130 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03162 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 52 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Americas | 30 | 30 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 25 |
| Asia | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 33 |
| Europe | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Oceania | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| All | 139 | 139 | 138 | 138 | 137 | 137 | 134 | 133 | 132 | 132 | 131 | 130 |
The newest 12 of 58 years.
Who joined and who left
− Syria
− Antigua and Barbuda
− Cuba
− Yemen
− Chile
− Seychelles
− Uruguay
− South Sudan
− Saint Kitts and Nevis
− EritreaNot in this dataset · 63 places this site covers
OECD Development Assistance Committee gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Bulgaria
Canada
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Guam
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Monaco
Montserrat
Netherlands
New Zealand
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russia
Saint Martin
San Marino
Sint Maarten
SlovakiaSomaliland
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United Kingdom
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
OECD Development Assistance Committee
2 · Their file
Net Official Development Assistance Received 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 10, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
58 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as oda-received-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 17 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
OECD Development Assistance Committee figures, served through the World Bank's indicator API (DT.ODA.ODAT.GN.ZS).
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 10, 2026
OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
The OECD’s own terms for its data: reuse, including commercial reuse, with the OECD credited as the source.
A credit line
Source: OECD Development Assistance Committee, Net Official Development Assistance Received, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
OECD Development Assistance Committee. Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1966–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/oda-received
The publisher’s own citation: OECD. Development Assistance Committee statistics. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Net Official Development Assistance Received: questions and answers
What is the Net Official Development Assistance Received?
Official development assistance is government aid designed to promote the economic development and welfare of poorer countries. Measured against national income, it shows how large a part aid plays in an economy.
Which years of the Net Official Development Assistance Received can I download?
All 58, from 1966 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does OECD Development Assistance Committee rank countries on it?
No. OECD Development Assistance Committee publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause, with credit to OECD Development Assistance Committee. The licence text is linked on this page.