OECD Development Assistance Committee · Official Development Assistance Given (% of GNI)
Development aid given by country
How much of its national income does a country give in official development aid?
Of the 43 countries compared in 2025, Norway had the highest reading, 1.03%, and 2 countries shared the lowest reading, 0.05%. In the middle country the figure was 0.27%. Among the 40 countries measured in every edition since 2018, the middle one moved from 0.25% to 0.26%.
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Development aid given · 2025
Context statistic
Highest of 43Norway
1.03%012025 · values only
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 43 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Ximonic , Simo Räsänen · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2Photo: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: User:Pieter Kuiper · Public domain, greyscale
Lowest in 2025
Taiwan0.05%
Israel0.05%
Azerbaijan0.06%
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
Highest on each continent
- Americas
Canada0.32%2 of 48 measured
- Asia
United Arab Emirates0.61% - EuropeNorway1.03%
- Oceania
New Zealand0.27%2 of 21 measured
- Every region
02Every measured country
Development aid given on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 0.05–0.13%
- 0.14–0.21%
- 0.22–0.34%
- 0.35–0.46%
- 0.50–1.03%
- No reading in 2025 (6 measured in an earlier edition)
- Europe
0.29%
the middle country, of 30 measured · 49 members
Norway1.03%2 share 0.12%
Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Asia
0.20%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 52 members
United Arab Emirates0.61%2 share 0.05%
Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Americas
2 of 48 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada0.32%
United States0.09%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Oceania
2 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
New Zealand0.27%
Australia0.18%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
8 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Western Europe
0.46%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg0.99%
Austria0.33%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Northern Europe
0.43%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Norway1.03%
Latvia0.18%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Western Asia
0.27%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 19 members
United Arab Emirates0.61%Israel0.05%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Southern Europe
0.22%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 17 members
Italy0.30%
Greece0.13%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
0.14%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 10 members
Poland0.16%2 share 0.12%
Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
New Zealand0.27%Australia0.18%Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Eastern Asia
3 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.
Japan0.35%Taiwan0.05%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada0.32%United States0.09%Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
03The whole field at once
The spread
43 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 0.27%; a quarter are above 0.43%, and a quarter below 0.15%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 49 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Only countries that give aid appear here — the members of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee and other providers that report to it — so this is not a table of the whole world, and a country missing from it is not one that gives nothing. A higher share is read as better because donors have committed to the 0.7% target, but the ratio says nothing about where the aid goes or how well it is spent, and a donor's spending on refugees in its own country counts as aid.
Showing 25 of 49 countries
Values for 2025. The change column compares 2025 with 2024 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052018–2025 · 8 editions
Over time
Each point is one year from 2018, when the OECD's Development Assistance Committee moved its headline to grant equivalents, which count a loan only for the part of it that is a gift. The newest year is the committee's preliminary figure and can change when the final figures are published.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 40 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | 0.27% | 0.15% – 0.43% | 0.26% |
| 2024 | 48 | 0.26% | 0.16% – 0.47% | 0.27% |
| 2023 | 47 | 0.31% | 0.18% – 0.50% | 0.32% |
| 2022 | 48 | 0.35% | 0.19% – 0.55% | 0.36% |
| 2021 | 47 | 0.28% | 0.15% – 0.45% | 0.28% |
| 2020 | 47 | 0.25% | 0.14% – 0.48% | 0.27% |
| 2019 | 47 | 0.22% | 0.13% – 0.41% | 0.24% |
| 2018 | 47 | 0.25% | 0.13% – 0.44% | 0.25% |
062024 → 2025
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after- United Arab Emirates0.37% → 0.61%+0.24
Qatar0.34% → 0.43%+0.09
Sweden0.79% → 0.85%+0.06
Hungary0.09% → 0.14%+0.05
Spain0.25% → 0.27%+0.02
Declined most
before → after
Ireland0.56% → 0.42%−0.14- United States0.23% → 0.09%−0.14
Germany0.68% → 0.56%−0.12
Belgium0.48% → 0.37%−0.11
Malta0.29% → 0.21%−0.08
43 countries were measured in both 2024 and 2025. The field changed from 48 to 43 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Development aid given in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
Reached 2 times by 2 countries — shared, so no holder is named
1.14%
ODA given (% of the provider's GNI, grant equivalent)
Lowest reading on record
Reached 5 times by 2 countries — shared, so no holder is named
0.01%
ODA given (% of the provider's GNI, grant equivalent)
OECD Development Assistance Committee · 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Biggest improvement between editions
+0.76
0.25% → 1.01%
Biggest decline between editions
−0.42
1.01% → 0.59%
Most improved since first measured
3 countries moved by exactly the same amount — no holder is named
Shared
At the top most often
3 of 8
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About development aid given
Official development assistance is government aid to promote the economic development and welfare of poorer countries. This series measures how much each aid provider gives, as a share of its own national income — the measure behind the long-standing United Nations target of 0.7%.
What the number is: ODA given (% of the provider's GNI, grant equivalent).
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Development & Human Capital and Money & Public Finance, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Development & Human CapitalMoney & Public FinanceWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where development aid given is higher, these tend to be higher too.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Moves against
Where development aid given is higher, these tend to be lower.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 0 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
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11Questions
Development aid given: questions and answers
Which country has the highest development aid given?
Norway, at 1.03%, among the 43 countries compared in 2025.
Which country has the lowest development aid given?
2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.05%, among the 43 compared in 2025, so no single country is named.
How many countries does the Official Development Assistance Given (% of GNI) cover?
43 in 2025, and 49 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 43 to 48 between editions.
What is the world average development aid given?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 43 compared in 2025, the figure was 0.27%.
Is this OECD Development Assistance Committee’s own ranking?
No ranking is shown. OECD Development Assistance Committee publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.
How often is the Official Development Assistance Given (% of GNI) published?
This site holds 8 editions, describing 2018 to 2025.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From OECD Development Assistance Committee, under OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause. Read from the DAC1 table of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee through the OECD's SDMX API, as the ratio the committee itself publishes at two decimals; it is not recalculated here from the aid and income amounts. Group totals such as the G7 and the committee as a whole are left out. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Official Development Assistance Given (% of GNI) — OECD Development Assistance Committee
Read from the DAC1 table of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee through the OECD's SDMX API, as the ratio the committee itself publishes at two decimals; it is not recalculated here from the aid and income amounts. Group totals such as the G7 and the committee as a whole are left out.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year 2025
Cite the source as: OECD (2026), DAC1: Flows by provider (ODA+OOF+Private), OECD Data Explorer, https://data-explorer.oecd.org/ (accessed on 3 October 2026).
Licence: OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause, checked 2026-10-03.
How this page reads the numbers
- No rank or position is shown: OECD Development Assistance Committee publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Norway — Ximonic , Simo Räsänen, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Luxembourg — Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Sweden — User:Pieter Kuiper, Public domain
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Development aid given by country: Official Development Assistance Given (% of GNI), data from OECD Development Assistance Committee. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/oda-given