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Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981

1981, as OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981 covers 122 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 57.0786; Trinidad and Tobago is lowest, at -0.0460. The middle country reads 4.7153. Against 1980, 120 values changed (50 up, 70 down), 2 countries joined.

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Net Official Development Assistance Received · Data for 1981

HighestTuvalu

57.0786

LowestTrinidad and Tobago

-0.0460

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, 1981, 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 122 countries · select a heading to sort

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981: every country, as published by OECD Development Assistance Committee.
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia57.0786
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa54.7497
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia47.1231
4Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa34.7806
5Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa33.9340
6MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia32.5790
7GambiaGMBWestern Africa31.3313
8VanuatuVUTMelanesia31.2481
9JordanJORWestern Asia27.9381
10TongaTONPolynesia26.1107
11MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia23.6530
12ComorosCOMEastern Africa21.7453
13MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa21.1507
14DominicaDMACaribbean17.8677
15CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia17.6905
16SamoaWSMPolynesia17.4851
17Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa16.0069
18New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia15.4406
19Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia14.6331
20Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa14.4964
21LesothoLSOSouthern Africa14.2501
22Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia13.2499
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa12.4878
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa12.1645
25SyriaSYRWestern Asia12.0681

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu57.0786
  2. 2Somalia54.7497
  3. 3Kiribati47.1231
  4. 4Cabo Verde34.7806
  5. 5Equatorial Guinea33.9340

Lowest

  1. 122Trinidad and Tobago-0.0460
  2. 121United Arab Emirates0.0006
  3. 120Chile0.0016
  4. 119Iran0.0048
  5. 118Qatar0.0092

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.7153. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 120 in both
  • 50 · 70rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cambodia46.2851 → 17.6905−28.5946
  • Somalia79.6869 → 54.7497−24.9372
  • Maldives56.5479 → 32.5790−23.9689
  • Jordan39.9454 → 27.9381−12.0073
  • Vanuatu42.4460 → 31.2481−11.1979
+ Mongolia+ Tonga

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 1981.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 122 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 (1981). Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/oda-received/1981

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07Questions

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest development aid received in Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981?

Tuvalu, at 57.0786, of the 122 countries in the file.

What year does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981 cover?

122.

Where can I download Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1981?

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, 1981 the newest?

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

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