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Foreign aid expenditure in OECD countries (discontinued), 2003

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More development aid from OECD

Preliminary figures from the OECD show that official development assistance (ODA) from OECD countries amounted to about USD 69.0 billion in 2003. This was a nominal increase of 18.4 per cent compared with the year before. For the OECD as a whole this was 0.25 per cent of the member countries total Gross National Income (GNI). The development aid expenditures of Norway were USD 2.0 billion, or NOK 14.5 billion. With 0.92 per cent of GNI Norway had the highest per cent among the OECD countries.

The level of development aid is usually measured as a percentage of gross national income (GNI), and is often used to compare countries expenditure on foreign aid. In 1970 the UN resolved that development aid should account for 0.7 of the GNI. Norway, Sweden and Denmark achieved this goal relatively quickly in the 1970s. In 2003, only the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands and Luxembourg met the goal.

0.25 per cent of GNI

For the OECD as a whole, the percentage of GNI was 0.25 in 2002. Measured in dollars (USD), the OECD-countries increased the development aid by USD 10.7 billion. The increase was at 4.8 per cent in real terms, corrected for price and exchange rate movements.

Public expenditure on development aid 2003. Per cent of GNI.

Nine of 22 OECD countries increased their development aid in 2003 measured as a percentage of GNI. Belgium had the largest increase with 0.17 per cent of GNI, from 0.43 to 0.60 per cent. Measured as a percentage of GNI Denmark had the largest decline by 0.12 per cent of GNI. Denmark is then no longer the country with development aid as the highest percentage of GNI.

USA the largest contributor

With USD 16.3 billion, USA was the largest contributor of all the OECD countries in 2003 as in 2002 and 2001, while Japan contributed the most the previous eight years. USA increased its development aid by 20.4 per cent in real terms in 2003. US expenditure on development aid was 0.15 per cent of GNI in 2003, and this was still the lowest level of the OECD countries.

Norway number one among OECD-countries

Norways development aid was 0.92 per cent of GNI in 2003, while the percentage in 2002 was 0.89 of GNI. The expenditure on development aid increased by 0.35 billion to 2.0 billion in 2003. This was an increase of 4.6 per cent in real terms, corrected for price and exchange rate movements.

Official development assistance. 2002-2003.
Percentage change 2002-2003
  Million US dollar Percentage
change 		Real per
cent change1
  2002 2003*
Denmark 1 643 1 748 6.4 -12.8
Norway 1 696 2 042 20.4 4.6
Sweden 2 012 2 400 19.3 -2.8
Netherlands 3 338 3 981 19.3 -3.2
France 5 486 7 253 32.2 8.7
Germany 5 324 6 784 27.4 5.3
United Kingdom 4 924 6 282 27.6 14.0
Italy 2 332 2 433 4.3 -15.3
Canada 2 004 2 031 1.3 -12.7
United States 13 290 16 254 22.3 20.4
Japan 9 283 8 880 -4.3 -9.2
Others 6 960 8 941 28.5 -
Total DAC 58 292 69 029 18.4 4.8
1  Taking account of both inflation and exchange rate movements.

For more information also at http://www.oecd.org/development/ or http://www.norad.no/ .

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