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Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997

1997, as OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997 covers 145 countries. Micronesia is highest, at 40.8122; Malaysia is lowest, at -0.2539. The middle country reads 3.9615. Against 1996, 143 values changed (39 up, 104 down), 2 countries joined, 3 left.

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Net Official Development Assistance Received · Data for 1997

HighestMicronesia

40.8122

LowestMalaysia

-0.2539

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, 1997, 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 145 countries · select a heading to sort

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997: every country, as published by OECD Development Assistance Committee.
derived
1MicronesiaFSMMicronesia40.8122
2São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa40.6157
3Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia39.3312
4TuvaluTUVPolynesia37.5336
5GuyanaGUYSouth America34.8580
6Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe25.0312
7PalauPLWMicronesia23.8002
8Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa22.7928
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa20.3665
10MadagascarMDGEastern Africa20.0976
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa19.8028
12BhutanBTNSouthern Asia18.4960
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa18.2113
14EritreaERIEastern Africa18.0755
15DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa16.6347
16Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa16.1740
17MongoliaMNGEastern Asia15.7024
18Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa15.0938
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa15.0449
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa14.9177
21PalestinePSEWestern Asia14.3228
22LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia14.2694
23NigerNERWestern Africa14.2164
24Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa14.1684
25UgandaUGAEastern Africa13.0092

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Micronesia40.8122
  2. 2São Tomé and Príncipe40.6157
  3. 3Marshall Islands39.3312
  4. 4Tuvalu37.5336
  5. 5Guyana34.8580

Lowest

  1. 145Malaysia-0.2539
  2. 144South Korea-0.0272
  3. 143Saudi Arabia0.0008
  4. 142Türkiye0.0026
  5. 141Macau0.0051

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.9615. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −3countries joined / left
  • 143values changed, of 143 in both
  • 39 · 104rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Moldova+ Serbia− Cyprus− Hong Kong− Israel

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 1997.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 145 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 (1997). Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/oda-received/1997

0658 held

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07Questions

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest development aid received in Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997?

Micronesia, at 40.8122, of the 145 countries in the file.

What year does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997 cover?

145.

Where can I download Net Official Development Assistance Received, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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