Net ODA received per capita (current US$) - Country Ranking

Definition: Net official development assistance (ODA) per capita consists of disbursements of loans made on concessional terms (net of repayments of principal) and grants by official agencies of the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), by multilateral institutions, and by non-DAC countries to promote economic development and welfare in countries and territories in the DAC list of ODA recipients; and is calculated by dividing net ODA received by the midyear population estimate. It includes loans with a grant element of at least 25 percent (calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent).

Source: Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries, Development Co-operation Report, and International Development Statistics database. Data

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Nauru 5,047.38 2019
2 Tuvalu 3,129.99 2019
3 New Caledonia 1,503.29 1999
4 Palau 1,385.48 2019
5 Tonga 1,033.04 2019
6 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 763.88 2019
7 Dominica 715.66 2019
8 Samoa 627.72 2019
9 Syrian Arab Republic 600.45 2019
10 St. Kitts and Nevis 597.08 2013
11 Kiribati 481.77 2019
12 Vanuatu 435.47 2019
13 Israel 389.45 1996
14 Solomon Islands 334.25 2019
15 Antigua and Barbuda 282.55 2019
16 Djibouti 279.88 2019
17 Cabo Verde 277.38 2019
18 Jordan 276.90 2019
19 São Tomé and Principe 238.88 2019
20 Bhutan 237.73 2019
21 Lebanon 222.51 2019
22 Timor-Leste 182.45 2019
23 St. Lucia 175.66 2019
24 Seychelles 169.03 2017
25 Central African Republic 158.87 2019
26 Fiji 156.27 2019
27 Montenegro 155.85 2019
28 Yemen 150.76 2019
29 Guyana 144.70 2019
30 Armenia 141.91 2019
31 Bosnia and Herzegovina 140.72 2019
32 Georgia 133.52 2019
33 Grenada 131.07 2019
34 Moldova 128.59 2019
35 Liberia 120.98 2019
36 Somalia 120.81 2019
37 Afghanistan 112.62 2019
38 Mongolia 97.52 2019
39 Belize 96.48 2019
40 Mali 94.78 2019
41 Rwanda 94.33 2019
42 Comoros 91.95 2019
43 Mauritania 91.08 2019
44 Senegal 88.60 2019
45 Lao PDR 88.08 2019
46 Tunisia 84.14 2019
47 The Gambia 82.65 2019
48 Serbia 82.17 2019
49 Eritrea 79.19 2019
50 Sierra Leone 76.11 2019
51 Papua New Guinea 76.04 2019
52 Bahrain 70.16 2004
53 Kyrgyz Republic 69.50 2019
54 Lesotho 68.69 2019
55 North Macedonia 68.28 2019
56 Zimbabwe 66.57 2019
57 Malawi 64.75 2019
58 Haiti 64.50 2019
59 Niger 63.93 2019
60 Eswatini 63.93 2019
61 Mozambique 62.83 2019
62 Guinea-Bissau 62.74 2019
63 Bolivia 62.20 2019
64 Kenya 61.84 2019
65 Cambodia 59.69 2019
66 Namibia 59.49 2019
67 Nicaragua 59.47 2019
68 Burkina Faso 56.53 2019
69 Iraq 56.27 2019
70 Barbados 55.22 2010
71 Zambia 54.66 2019
72 Gabon 53.72 2019
73 Cameroon 51.60 2019
74 Burundi 51.08 2019
75 Benin 51.03 2019
76 Togo 50.93 2019
77 Nepal 47.56 2019
78 Uganda 47.44 2019
79 El Salvador 47.36 2019
80 Equatorial Guinea 47.25 2019
81 Honduras 46.95 2019
82 Côte d'Ivoire 46.71 2019
83 Libya 46.63 2019
84 Guinea 45.47 2019
85 Chad 44.34 2019
86 Cuba 44.09 2019
87 Jamaica 43.10 2019
88 Ethiopia 42.92 2019
89 Suriname 40.22 2019
90 Tajikistan 39.33 2019
91 Myanmar 38.48 2019
92 Sudan 37.95 2019
93 Tanzania 37.12 2019
94 Dem. Rep. Congo 34.86 2019
95 Congo 34.81 2019
96 Uzbekistan 34.44 2019
97 Ghana 30.78 2019
98 Croatia 30.63 2010
99 Ecuador 30.22 2019
100 Botswana 29.89 2019
101 Madagascar 28.04 2019
102 Malta 27.88 2002
103 Bangladesh 27.49 2019
104 Slovenia 26.45 2002
105 Ukraine 25.87 2019
106 Cyprus 25.85 1996
107 Guatemala 23.72 2019
108 Belarus 22.74 2019
109 Morocco 20.78 2019
110 Paraguay 18.44 2019
111 Colombia 17.93 2019
112 Mauritius 17.52 2019
113 Nigeria 17.50 2019
114 Egypt 17.34 2019
115 Panama 16.83 2019
116 South Africa 16.59 2019
117 The Bahamas 15.67 1995
118 Peru 14.64 2019
119 Brunei 14.44 1995
120 Dominican Republic 12.52 2019
121 Uruguay 12.12 2017
122 Azerbaijan 12.07 2019
123 Costa Rica 11.84 2019
124 Vietnam 11.35 2019
125 Pakistan 10.02 2019
126 Venezuela 9.96 2019
127 Albania 9.95 2019
128 Turkey 9.89 2019
129 Sri Lanka 9.05 2019
130 Philippines 8.37 2019
131 Qatar 7.28 1995
132 Dem. People's Rep. Korea 5.89 2019
133 Singapore 4.73 1995
134 Turkmenistan 4.27 2019
135 Mexico 4.20 2019
136 Algeria 4.08 2019
137 Chile 3.81 2017
138 Trinidad and Tobago 3.27 2010
139 Kazakhstan 2.94 2019
140 Kuwait 2.63 1995
141 Iran 2.54 2019
142 United Arab Emirates 2.24 1995
143 Hong Kong SAR, China 2.05 1996
144 India 1.91 2019
145 Angola 1.56 2019
146 Brazil 1.38 2019
147 Macao SAR, China 0.76 1999
148 Argentina 0.41 2019
149 Malaysia 0.19 2019
150 China -0.42 2019
151 Korea -1.18 1999
152 Indonesia -2.33 2019
153 Thailand -4.86 2019
154 Saudi Arabia -5.20 2007
155 Oman -7.11 2010
156 Cayman Islands -59.59 1996

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Development Relevance: The ratio of aid per capita provides a measure of recipient country's dependency on aid. DAC exists to help its members coordinate their development assistance and to encourage the expansion and improve the effectiveness of the aggregate resources flowing to recipient economies. In this capacity DAC monitors the flow of all financial resources, but its main concern is official development assistance (ODA). Grants or loans to countries and territories on the DAC list of aid recipients have to meet three criteria to be counted as ODA. They are provided by official agencies, including state and local governments, or by their executive agencies. They promote economic development and welfare as the main objective. And they are provided on concessional financial terms (loans must have a grant element of at least 25 percent, calculated at a discount rate of 10 percent). The DAC Statistical Reporting Directives provide the most detailed explanation of this definition and all ODA-related rules. DAC statistics aim to meet the needs of policy makers in the field of development co-operation, and to provide a means of assessing the comparative performance of aid donors. DAC statistics are used extensively in the Peer Reviews conducted for each DAC member every four to five years, and have a wide range of other applications. They are used to measure donors' compliance with various international recommendations in the field of development co-operation (terms, volume), and are indispensable for analysis of virtually every aspect of development and development co-operation. From 1960 to 1990, official development assistance (ODA) flows from DAC countries to developing countries rose steadily, but then fell sharply in the 1990s. Since then, a series of high-profile international conferences have boosted ODA flows. In the mid-2000s, ODA once again rose due to exceptional debt relief operations for Iraq and Nigeria. Despite the recent financial crisis, ODA flows have continued to rise and in the early 2010s reached their highest real level ever at about USD 130 billion. This demonstrates how effective aid pledges can be when they are made on the basis of adequate resources and backed by strong political will.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data on ODA is for aid-receiving countries. The data cover loans and grants from DAC member countries, multilateral organizations, and non-DAC donors. They do not reflect aid given by recipient countries to other developing countries. As a result, some countries that are net donors are shown as aid recipients. The indicator does not distinguish types of aid (program, project, or food aid; emergency assistance; or post-conflict peacekeeping assistance), which may have different effects on the economy. Because the indicator relies on information from donors, it is not necessarily consistent with information recorded by recipients in the balance of payments, which often excludes all or some technical assistance - particularly payments to expatriates made directly by the donor. Similarly, grant commodity aid may not always be recorded in trade data or in the balance of payments. Moreover, DAC statistics exclude aid for military and antiterrorism purposes. The aggregates refer to World Bank classifications of economies and therefore may differ from those of the OECD.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Net official development assistance (ODA) per capita consists of disbursements of loans made on concessional terms (net of repayments of principal) and grants by official agencies of the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), by multilateral institutions, and by non-DAC countries to promote economic development and welfare in countries and territories in the DAC list of ODA recipients. It includes loans with a grant element of at least 25 percent (calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent). Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship - except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. The values shown are midyear estimates. Net official development assistance per capita is net ODA divided by midyear population. The flows of official and private financial resources from the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to developing economies are compiled by DAC, based principally on reporting by DAC members using standard questionnaires issued by the DAC Secretariat. This definition excludes nonconcessional flows from official creditors, which are classified as "other official flows," and aid for military and anti-terrorism purposes. Transfer payments to private individuals, such as pensions, reparations, and insurance payouts, are in general not counted. In addition to financial flows, ODA includes technical cooperation, most expenditures for peacekeeping under UN mandates and assistance to refugees, contributions to multilateral institutions such as the United Nations and its specialized agencies, and concessional funding to multilateral development banks. Flows are transfers of resources, either in cash or in the form of commodities or services measured on a cash basis. Short-term capital transactions (with one year or less maturity) are not counted. Repayments of the principal (but not interest) of ODA loans are recorded as negative flows. Proceeds from official equity investments in a developing country are reported as ODA, while proceeds from their later sale are recorded as negative flows. The official development assistance (ODA) estimates are published annually at the end of the calendar year in International Development Statistics (IDS) database.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual