European Commission, International Partnerships (DG INTPA) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billions

## What this measures

Money the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) paid out each month, as it reports to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI): disbursements and expenditures, converted to US dollars. Each point is the sum of the twelve months (four quarters) to that date.

DG INTPA runs the EU's development cooperation outside its neighbourhood. DG ECHO, the Commission's humanitarian arm, reports no disbursements to IATI after 2024 (commitments only), so it is withheld rather than shown falling to zero; the neighbourhood directorate (DG NEAR) is not included.

## Why it matters

The OECD publishes each year's official aid figures in April of the next year and its recipient tables a year after that. IATI is where publishers report spending as it happens, so it shows month by month who cut, who did not, and where the money stopped arriving, well before the OECD tables.

## How to read it

December runs high, as the Commission's payments bunch at the end of the budget year.

IATI data arrive as publishers report, and recent months fill in late. The IATI Datastore keeps no earlier versions, so Palanor measures each publisher's lag from IATI-Stats' daily record (January 2024 to October 2025) of how far its newest transaction trailed each day's read, and uses the 90th percentile, capped at 90 days: 48 days for DG INTPA. A month is published only once its end is that many days past and the publisher has reported it, and the six newest published months are flagged preliminary. Each point keeps the value Palanor first read and the date it read it, so later revisions can be measured.

## What it does not say

Coverage: in euros, the IATI total was €5,857 million in 2023 and €5,515 million in 2024, against DG INTPA's own payments in its annual activity reports (€6,891 million and €6,214 million, general budget, European Development Fund and EU trust funds): 85.0% and 88.8%. A month's figure is cash reported as paid out in that month, not what was budgeted or committed, and it says nothing about what the money achieved. Values are in each transaction's own currency, valued at its value date. Euro and pound values are converted at the Federal Reserve's monthly average rate for the value-date month (FRED EXUSEU, EXUSUK); a value date outside the window read, or after the latest monthly rate, takes the transaction month's or the latest rate.

## Source

IATI Datastore (api.iatistandard.org/datastore), transactions of type 3 (disbursement) and 4 (expenditure), read weekly by /api/cron/iati-spending-sync (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.