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Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979

1979, as OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979 covers 113 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 51.34770; Chile is lowest, at -0.13855. The middle country reads 3.61032. Against 1978, 110 values changed (61 up, 49 down), 3 countries joined.

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Net Official Development Assistance Received · Data for 1979

HighestTuvalu

51.34770

LowestChile

-0.13855

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979, as published. OECD Development Assistance Committee ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 113 countries · select a heading to sort

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979: every country, as published by OECD Development Assistance Committee.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia51.34770
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa46.42289
3JordanJORWestern Asia44.17266
4VanuatuVUTMelanesia38.29660
5MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia36.17134
6Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia24.99277
7KiribatiKIRMicronesia22.45222
8SyriaSYRWestern Asia21.29764
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa21.22992
10SamoaWSMPolynesia20.41556
11CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia19.13470
12MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia18.70332
13MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa18.48667
14Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa17.14184
15GambiaGMBWestern Africa16.78235
16DominicaDMACaribbean16.47919
17New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia14.19465
18BelizeBLZCentral America14.14334
19RwandaRWAEastern Africa13.30247
20LesothoLSOSouthern Africa12.84472
21SurinameSURSouth America12.79246
22Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia12.56533
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa12.21488
24BotswanaBWASouthern Africa12.12509
25Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa11.98795

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu51.34770
  2. 2Somalia46.42289
  3. 3Jordan44.17266
  4. 4Vanuatu38.29660
  5. 5Myanmar36.17134

Lowest

  1. 113Chile-0.13855
  2. 112Qatar0.00329
  3. 111Kuwait0.00419
  4. 110Iran0.00640
  5. 109Saudi Arabia0.00935

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.61032. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 110values changed, of 110 in both
  • 61 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Jordan17.95104 → 44.17266+26.22162
  • Cambodia0.04516 → 19.13470+19.08954
  • Tuvalu38.19818 → 51.34770+13.14952
  • Myanmar23.17160 → 36.17134+12.99975
  • Syria10.19411 → 21.29764+11.10353

Fell most

+ China+ Nauru+ Vanuatu

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1979.

  • The position is ours

    OECD Development Assistance Committee publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 113 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

OECD Development Assistance Committee (1979). Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/oda-received/1979

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07Questions

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest development aid received in Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979?

Tuvalu, at 51.34770, of the 113 countries in the file.

What year does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979 cover?

113.

Where can I download Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1979 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2023.

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