Table 1 Official devolopment assistance

Expenditures on development aid in the OECD countries

1	Official devolopment assistance

	Million US dollar					Percentage of GNI

	2000	2001	2002	2003*	2004*	2000	2001	2002	2003*	2004*

Norway	1 264	1 346	1 696	2 042	2 199	0.76	0.80	0.89	0.92	0.87
Denmark	1 664	1 634	1 643	1 748	2 037	1.06	1.03	0.96	0.84	0.85
Finland	371	389	462	558	655	0.31	0.32	0.35	0.35	0.35
Sweden	1 799	1 666	2 012	2 400	2 722	0.80	0.77	0.84	0.79	0.78

Belgium	820	867	1 072	1 853	1 463	0.36	0.37	0.43	0.60	0.41
France	4 105	4 198	5 486	7 253	8 473	0.30	0.31	0.37	0.40	0.41
Greece	226	202	276	362	465	0.20	0.17	0.21	0.21	0.23
Ireland	234	287	398	504	607	0.29	0.33	0.40	0.39	0.39
Italy	1 376	1 627	2 332	2 433	2 462	0.13	0.15	0.20	0.17	0.15
Luxembourg	123	139	147	194	236	0.71	0.76	0.77	0.81	0.83
Netherlands	3 135	3 172	3 338	3 972	4 204	0.84	0.82	0.81	0.80	0.73
Portugal	271	268	323	320	1 031	0.26	0.25	0.27	0.22	0.63
Spain	1 195	1 737	1 712	1 961	2 437	0.22	0.30	0.26	0.23	0.24
United Kingdom	4 501	4 579	4 924	6 282	7 883	0.32	0.32	0.31	0.34	0.36
Switzerland	890	908	939	1 299	1 545	0.34	0.34	0.32	0.39	0.41
Germany	5 030	4 990	5 324	6 784	7 534	0.27	0.27	0.27	0.28	0.28
Austria	440	633	520	505	678	0.23	0.34	0.26	0.20	0.23
Canada	1 744	1 533	2 004	2 031	2 599	0.25	0.22	0.28	0.24	0.27
United States	9 955	11 429	13 290	16 320	19 705	0.10	0.11	0.13	0.15	0.17
Japan	13 508	9 847	9 283	8 880	8 906	0.28	0.23	0.23	0.20	0.19
Australia	987	873	989	1 219	1 460	0.27	0.25	0.26	0.25	0.25
New Zealand	113	112	122	165	212	0.25	0.25	0.22	0.23	0.23
OECD/DAC¹ countries, total	53 749	52 435	58 292	69 085	79 512	0.22	0.22	0.23	0.25	0.26

¹	DAC-countries are members of OECD's Development Assistance Committee.
Source: OECD and Statistics Norway.

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