The Department for International Development recently published its annual overview of the official UK contribution to international development. It contains the finalised estimates for 2012 and updates the provisional estimates of March 2013. It focuses on Official Development Assistance (ODA), the key international aid measure. The UK is committed to investing 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance, the target originally set in 1970 by the UN General Assembly.
The key statistics concerning Official Development Assistance (ODA) in this publication include the UK’s ODA/GNI ratio for 2012 was 0.56 per cent, which is the same level as 2011. This estimate is unchanged from the provisional release published in March 2013.
In 2012 the UK reported £8,766m as Official Development Assistance (ODA), an increase of £137m (2 per cent) on 2011 levels making it the 2nd largest OECD-DAC Donor in terms of volume. The UK reported £5,496m of ODA as Net Bilateral in 2012, an increase of £210m (4 per cent) on 2011 levels and £3,270m of ODA as Net Multilateral, a decrease of £73m (2 per cent) on 2011 levels.
The publication also covers regional and sectoral breakdowns of ODA. The African region received the largest amount of UK Net Bilateral ODA, £2,174m in 2012, an increase of 2 per cent on 2011 levels. The top three recipients of UK Net Bilateral ODA in 2012 were India (£292m) Afghanistan (£274m), and Ethiopia (£266m). The health sector received the largest amount of UK Net Bilateral ODA, £1,076m in 2012.
The Department for International Development’s (DFID) ODA spend was £7,593m, 87 per cent of total UK ODA in 2012. Other UK Government Departments and Sources of UK ODA spend was £1,173m, accounting for the remaining 13 per cent of total UK ODA in 2012.
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