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China’s Official Finance to Developing Countries

Loans and grants committed by Chinese state institutions, aid-like and other official flows, constant 2021 US$ billions, yearly; AidData’s dataset ends in 2021

Total $42B in 2021−$74B since 2016
YTD1y2y5y10y20yAll
Source stopped·Data to 2021
Aid-like (ODA-like)Other official flows (OOF-like)

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

AidData, Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0 (ODC-By). Commitments by year signed, AidData’s recommended aggregates. The dataset ends in 2021, so it says nothing about later years. Finance AidData could not classify is in neither bar.

What China’s state lenders and agencies committed to low- and middle-income countries each year to 2021, split into the aid-like part, which compares with other donors’ aid, and lending nearer market terms. Most of it is lending, not aid. China does not report to the OECD, so none of this is in the DAC totals.

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Sources

China · Aid-Like (ODA-Like) Commitments · US$ billions. Source: AidData (William & Mary), Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0, read from the dataset zip on docs.aiddata.org. Licence (the dataset workbook's License tab): "The original dataset produced by AidData is licensed using the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By). Any use of the dataset and its content must include appropriate attribution to AidData." Citation: AidData. 2023. Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0. https://www.aiddata.org/data/aiddatas-global-chinese-development-finance-dataset-version-3-0 Re-read monthly.

China · Other Official Flows (OOF-Like) Commitments · US$ billions. Source: AidData (William & Mary), Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0, read from the dataset zip on docs.aiddata.org. Licence (the dataset workbook's License tab): "The original dataset produced by AidData is licensed using the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By). Any use of the dataset and its content must include appropriate attribution to AidData." Citation: AidData. 2023. Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0. https://www.aiddata.org/data/aiddatas-global-chinese-development-finance-dataset-version-3-0 Re-read monthly.

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.

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