Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2020

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020

2020, as OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020 covers 132 countries. Syria is highest, at 83.6398; China is lowest, at -0.0038. The middle country reads 3.9279. Against 2019, 132 values changed (108 up, 24 down), 1 left.

Share

Net Official Development Assistance Received · Data for 2020

HighestSyria

83.6398

LowestChina

-0.0038

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, 2020, 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 132 countries · select a heading to sort

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020: every country, as published by OECD Development Assistance Committee.
derived
1SyriaSYRWestern Asia83.6398
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia63.7483
3TuvaluTUVPolynesia60.6779
4MicronesiaFSMMicronesia39.8732
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa35.4514
6Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa33.9426
7TongaTONPolynesia30.0519
8PalauPLWMicronesia24.9966
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa22.6244
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia20.9415
11SamoaWSMPolynesia19.9606
12São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa19.5621
13MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa18.3359
14GambiaGMBWestern Africa16.9192
15RwandaRWAEastern Africa15.8086
16KiribatiKIRMicronesia15.3746
17BurundiBDIEastern Africa15.2344
18NauruNRUMicronesia15.0801
19NigerNERWestern Africa14.3667
20VanuatuVUTMelanesia13.8470
21Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia13.6326
22MalawiMWIEastern Africa12.7235
23Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa12.6452
24DominicaDMACaribbean11.9631
25PalestinePSEWestern Asia11.2936

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Syria83.6398
  2. 2Marshall Islands63.7483
  3. 3Tuvalu60.6779
  4. 4Micronesia39.8732
  5. 5Somalia35.4514

Lowest

  1. 132China-0.0038
  2. 131Malaysia-0.0013
  3. 130Argentina0.0275
  4. 129Thailand0.0407
  5. 128Brazil0.0425

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.9279. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 132values changed, of 132 in both
  • 108 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Nauru30.7055 → 15.0801−15.6254
  • Burundi19.5502 → 15.2344−4.3158
  • Armenia3.0290 → 1.0257−2.0033
  • Mali9.1839 → 7.8528−1.3311
  • Guyana2.2101 → 0.9916−1.2185
− Cuba

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 2020.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 132 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 (2020). Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/oda-received/2020

0658 held

Other years

07Questions

Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest development aid received in Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020?

Syria, at 83.6398, of the 132 countries in the file.

What year does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020 cover?

132.

Where can I download Net Official Development Assistance Received, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.