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.
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