Key statistics

Key Statistics

• The UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) amounted to £6,027m in 2007/08. The DFID aid programme accounted for £5,200m (86 per cent) of this expenditure.
• GPEX decreased to £6,027m in 2007/08 from £7,592m in 2007/08. This represents a decrease of £1,565m (21 per cent). This decrease is due to large amounts of debt relief in 2006/07 totalling £2,014m.
• Excluding debt relief, GPEX totalled £5,952m in 2007/08, this represents an increased of £374m (7 per cent) over the 2006/07 total of £5,578m.
• In the calendar year 2007 the UK reported £4,921m as official development assistance (ODA), making the UK the third largest OECD-DAC donor on this internationally agreed classification of aid. The UK’s ODA/ GNI ratio for 2007 was 0.36 per cent.
• In 2007/08 £2,962m (57 per cent) of the DFID programme was bilateral assistance and £1,990m (38 per cent) was multilateral assistance. The remaining £248m (5 per cent) was spent on administration costs.
• DFID’s bilateral expenditure rose to £2,962m in 2007/08 from £2,783m in 2006/07 (6 per cent). India, Ethiopia and Sudan received the largest amounts of DFID bilateral aid.
• DFID’s bilateral assistance excluding humanitarian assistance was £2,531m in 2007/08, up from £2,399m in 2006/07 (6 per cent). India, Ethiopia and Tanzania were the largest recipients of bilateral aid excluding humanitarian assistance.
• DFID’s bilateral humanitarian assistance in 2007/08 totalled £431m, representing an increase of £47m (12 per cent). The largest recipients of bilateral humanitarian assistance were Sudan (£91m), Democratic Republic of Congo (£46m) and Iraq (£20m).
• DFID’s bilateral assistance to sub-Saharan Africa rose to £1,302m in 2007/08 from £1,186m in 2006/07 (10 per cent). Assistance to Asia increased over this period from £900m to £931m (3 per cent).
• In 2007/08 £317m of bilateral assistance was channelled through UK Civil Society Organisations. Major recipients included the British Red Cross, VSO and Oxfam.
• DFID’s total multilateral programme accounted for £1,990m in 2007/08 down from £2,011m in 2006/07 (-1 per cent).

Key Statistics

• The European Commission’s development programme received the largest amount of DFID multilateral assistance (£991m), followed by the World Bank (£493m) and the United Nations (£250m).
• DFID debt relief amounted to £71m in 2007/08. Non-DFID debt relief (through CDC and ECGD) was £4m.
• The sector receiving the highest share of DFID bilateral expenditure in 2007/08 was the government and civil society sector with £791m. This was followed by the health sector with £543m and the economic sector with £495m.