Table 1 Official devolopment assistance.

Expenditures on development aid in the OECD countries

1	Official devolopment assistance

	Million dollar					Percentage of GNI

Country	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002*	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002*

Norway	1 321	1 370	1 264	1 346	1 696	0.90	0.90	0.80	0.80	0.89
Denmark	1 704	1 733	1 664	1 634	1 643	0.99	1.01	1.06	1.03	0.96
Finland	396	416	371	389	462	0.31	0.33	0.31	0.32	0.35
Sweden	1 573	1 630	1 799	1 666	1 991	0.72	0.70	0.80	0.77	0.83

Belgium	883	760	820	867	1 072	0.35	0.30	0.36	0.37	0.43
France	5 742	5 639	4 105	4 198	5 486	0.40	0.39	0.32	0.32	0.38
Greece	179	194	226	202	276	-	0.15	0.20	0.17	0.21
Ireland	199	245	235	287	398	0.30	0.31	0.30	0.33	0.40
Italy	2 278	1 806	1 376	1 627	2 332	0.20	0.15	0.13	0.15	0.20
Luxembourg	112	119	123	139	143	0.65	0.66	0.71	0.82	0.78
Netherlands	3 042	3 134	3 135	3 172	3 338	0.80	0.79	0.84	0.82	0.81
Portugal¹	259	276	271	268	323	0.24	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.27
Spain	1 376	1 363	1 195	1 737	1 712	0.24	0.23	0.22	0.30	0.26
United Kingdom	3 864	3 426	4 501	4 579	4 924	0.27	0.24	0.32	0.32	0.31
Switzerland	898	984	890	908	939	0.32	0.35	0.34	0.34	0.32
Germany	5 581	5 515	5 030	4 990	5 324	0.26	0.26	0.27	0.27	0.27
Austria	456	527	423	533	520	0.22	0.26	0.23	0.29	0.26
Canada	1 707	1 706	1 744	1 533	2 006	0.30	0.28	0.25	0.22	0.28
United States	8 786	9 145	9 955	11 429	13 290	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.11	0.13
Japan	10 640	15 323	13 508	9 847	9 283	0.27	0.34	0.28	0.23	0.23
Australia	960	982	987	873	989	0.27	0.26	0.27	0.25	0.26
New Zealand	130	134	113	112	122	0.27	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.22
OECD/DAC² countries, total	52 084	56 428	53 734	52 335	58 274	0.23	0.24	0.22	0.22	0.23

¹	1997-figure for 1998, since 1997-figure is not reported to OECD.
²	DAC-countries are members of OECD's Development Assistance Committee.
Source: OECD and Statistics Norway.

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