ODA Donations Second Largest In OECD

Gross public expenditure on development (GPEX) in the UK in 2010-11 amounted to £9,007m of which the DFID aid programme accounted for £7,689m. In 2009-10 the GPEX was £7,767m, an increase of 1,240m or 16%. If debt relief is excluded GPEX totalled £8,829m, an increase of £1,161m or 15% over 2009-10 total of £7,668m.

Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2010 was reported to have been £8,452m. The donation makes Britain the 2nd largest OECD-DAC donor in this category of international aid. Britain's donations amounted to an ODA/Gross National Income (GNI) ratio of 0.57%.

The largest amounts of DFID bilateral aid went to India (£279m), Ethiopia (£251m) and Pakistan (£203m). Bilateral assistance was provided to 78 countries, 36 of which received direct financial aid. The total DFID bilateral assistance to these countries amounted to £2,265m, 85% of DFID country specific bilateral aid if humanitarian aid is excluded. The countries receiving the largest amounts of bilateral aid excluding humanitarian assistance were India (£279m), Ethiopia (£245m) and Bangladesh (£171m).

DFID bilateral humanitarian assistance total for 2010-11 was £351m, a decrease of £84m from 2009-10. The countries receiving the most humanitarian assistance were Sudan (£84m), Pakistan (£83m) and the Democtratic Republic of Congo (£47m). Bilateral assistance to sub-Saharan Africa increased to £1,760m from £1,539m or 14%.

The largest share of DFID bilateral assistance went to the health sector (£830m) follwed by the government and civil society sector (£782m) and the economic sector (£750m).

DFIDs multilateral programme amounted to £3,222m in 2010-11 from £2,436m in 2009-10 an increase of 32%. The largest share of the multilateral expenditure went to the European Commission's development programme (£1,269m) follwed by the World Bank (£927m) and the United Nations (£355m).