Development aid

• current official development assistance (ODA) from industrial countries:
• around $56 billion a year [5]
• $53.7 billion in 2000 [W1]
• Some $40-60 billion a year additionally are required to reach the goals of the UN Millennium Declaration. [5]
• so it is clear that aid needs to double.
• This doubled aid would be about 0.5% of GNP (gross national product) of the OECD countries. [5]
• The UN General Assembly in 1970 agreed on giving 0.7% of GNP in foreign aid. [5]
• Official development assistance has steadily declined, from 0.35% of GNP in 1990 to 0.22% in 2000. [W1]
• Official development assistance 1990 & 2000: [5]



	Net ODA disbursed					ODA per capita of donor country (US$)
	Total (in million US$)		As % of GNP
	2000	2001	1990	2000	2001	1990	2000	2001
Denmark	1,664	1,634	0.94	1.06	1.03	246	348	306
Netherlands	3,135	3,172	0.92	0.84	0.82	178	221	195
Sweden	1,799	1,666	0.91	0.80	0.81	207	223	207
Norway	1,264	1,346	1.17	0.80	0.83	277	276	299
Luxembourg	127	141	0.21	0.71	0.82	71	320	325
Belgium	820	867	0.46	0.36	0.37	95	91	85
Switzerland	890	908	0.32	0.34	0.34	120	137	123
France	4,105	4,198	0.60	0.32	0.32	129	80	72
United Kingdom	4,501	4,579	0.27	0.32	0.32	55	79	80
Finland	371	389	0.65	0.31	0.32	137	80	75
Ireland	235	287	0.16	0.30	0.33	18	68	74
Japan	13,508	9,847	0.31	0.28	0.23	96	102	89
Australia	987	873	0.34	0.27	0.25	52	56	49
Germany	5,030	4,990	0.42	0.27	0.27	108	71	62
Portugal	271	268	0.24	0.26	0.25	18	30	26
Canada	1,744	1,533	0.44	0.25	0.22	79	55	51
New Zealand	113	112	0.23	0.25	0.25	29	34	30
Austria	423	533	0.25	0.23	0.29	55	60	66
Spain	1,195	1,737	0.20	0.22	0.30	23	34	43
Greece	226	202	-	0.20	0.17	-	25	19
Italy	1,376	1,627	0.31	0.13	0.15	56	27	28
United States	9,955	11,429	0.21	0.10	0.11	55	35	39