Overseas Aid

(asked on 23rd January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which five countries have received the largest proportion of Official Development Assistance in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 30th January 2020

The table below shows the five countries which received the largest proportion of UK ODA in the last three years and their percentage share of the UK’s country-specific bilateral ODA.

2016

2017

2018

Rank

Country

% Country-Specific Bilateral ODA

Country

% Country-Specific Bilateral ODA

Country

% Country-Specific Bilateral ODA

1

Pakistan

9.6%

Pakistan

8.2%

Pakistan

7.3%

2

Syria

7.3%

Nigeria

6.7%

Ethiopia

6.7%

3

Ethiopia

6.9%

Ethiopia

6.7%

Nigeria

6.6%

4

Nigeria

6.6%

Syria

6.4%

Afghanistan

5.5%

5

Afghanistan

4.9%

Somalia

5.8%

Syria

5.1%

Source: Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2018

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