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Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980

1980, as OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980 covers 120 countries. Somalia is highest, at 79.6869; Chile is lowest, at -0.0263. The middle country reads 4.4753. Against 1979, 113 values changed (59 up, 54 down), 7 countries joined.

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Net Official Development Assistance Received · Data for 1980

HighestSomalia

79.6869

LowestChile

-0.0263

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, 1980, 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 120 countries · select a heading to sort

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980: every country, as published by OECD Development Assistance Committee.
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa79.6869
2TuvaluTUVPolynesia59.4379
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia58.2570
4MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia56.5479
5CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia46.2851
6Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa44.5351
7VanuatuVUTMelanesia42.4460
8JordanJORWestern Asia39.9454
9MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia28.6041
10Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia24.4537
11DominicaDMACaribbean24.0888
12GambiaGMBWestern Africa22.2125
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa20.6208
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa18.9140
15ComorosCOMEastern Africa17.7170
16MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa17.1751
17New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia16.7422
18SamoaWSMPolynesia16.0003
19SyriaSYRWestern Asia15.1164
20SeychellesSYCEastern Africa14.1962
21Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa13.7717
22LesothoLSOSouthern Africa13.4090
23Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia12.7979
24BurundiBDIEastern Africa12.5785
25RwandaRWAEastern Africa12.2644

02In 1980

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Somalia79.6869
  2. 2Tuvalu59.4379
  3. 3Kiribati58.2570
  4. 4Maldives56.5479
  5. 5Cambodia46.2851

Lowest

  1. 120Chile-0.0263
  2. 119Qatar0.0064
  3. 118Saudi Arabia0.0078
  4. 117United Arab Emirates0.0089
  5. 116Iraq0.0230

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.4753. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −0countries joined / left
  • 113values changed, of 113 in both
  • 59 · 54rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Belize14.1433 → 5.6763−8.4671
  • Myanmar36.1713 → 28.6041−7.5673
  • Seychelles21.2299 → 14.1962−7.0337
  • Syria21.2976 → 15.1164−6.1812
  • Chad8.4566 → 3.3707−5.0859
+ Bahrain+ Comoros+ Cabo Verde+ Equatorial Guinea+ Haiti+ Saint Lucia+ Malawi

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 1980.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 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 (1980). Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/oda-received/1980

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07Questions

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest development aid received in Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980?

Somalia, at 79.6869, of the 120 countries in the file.

What year does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980 cover?

120.

Where can I download Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1980?

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, 1980 the newest?

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

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