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Aid Spending by Government Donors, Indexed
Disbursements and expenditures reported to IATI over the last twelve months, U.S. government, UK FCDO, Germany’s BMZ and the European Commission’s DG INTPA, index, start = 100
2 of 4 series are above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
IATI (International Aid Transparency Initiative): disbursements and expenditures as publishers report them, dated when paid. Recent months fill in as late reports arrive, so a month is shown only after each publisher’s measured reporting lag, and the newest six are preliminary. Each line is twelve-month spending set to 100 at the end of 2023, so the lines compare change, not size. BMZ reports quarterly. Data: U.S. agencies (CC0), FCDO (OGL v3.0), BMZ, Global Fund and Gavi (CC BY), © European Union and the World Bank (CC BY 4.0).
Whether the other large government donors cut, held or raised their aid spending while the U.S. cut its own. Each line is the donor’s last twelve months of reported spending, indexed to the end of 2023.
What this chart reads
- U.S. Government (USAID, State and Other Agencies) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billionsas “U.S. government”behindlatest 2026-06-30
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billionsas “UK FCDO”behindlatest 2026-07-31
- Germany's Development Ministry (BMZ) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billionsas “Germany BMZ”latest 2026-06-30
- European Commission, International Partnerships (DG INTPA) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billionsas “EU (DG INTPA)”latest 2026-08-31
Sources
U.S. Government (USAID, State and Other Agencies) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billions. Source: IATI Datastore (api.iatistandard.org/datastore), transactions of type 3 (disbursement) and 4 (expenditure), read weekly (src/lib/iati/spending.ts). U.S. agencies publish to IATI under CC0 (public domain); the Millennium Challenge Corporation marks its data public domain. Data © their publishers, used under the licences in their IATI Registry entries.
UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billions. Source: IATI Datastore (api.iatistandard.org/datastore), transactions of type 3 (disbursement) and 4 (expenditure), read weekly (src/lib/iati/spending.ts). FCDO data are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data © their publishers, used under the licences in their IATI Registry entries.
Germany's Development Ministry (BMZ) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billions. Source: IATI Datastore (api.iatistandard.org/datastore), transactions of type 3 (disbursement) and 4 (expenditure), read weekly (src/lib/iati/spending.ts). BMZ publishes to IATI under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Data © their publishers, used under the licences in their IATI Registry entries.
European Commission, International Partnerships (DG INTPA) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billions. Source: IATI Datastore (api.iatistandard.org/datastore), transactions of type 3 (disbursement) and 4 (expenditure), read weekly (src/lib/iati/spending.ts). The Commission's IATI files sit on ec.europa.eu, whose legal notice licenses EU-owned content under CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). Data © their publishers, used under the licences in their IATI Registry entries.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.