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SID 2011 Key Statistics

  • The UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) amounted to £9,007m in 2010/11. The DFID aid programme accounted for £7,689m (85%) of this expenditure.
  • GPEX increased to £9,007m in 2010/11 from £7,767m in 2009/10.  This represents an increase of £1,240m (16%).
  • Excluding debt relief, GPEX totalled £8,829m in 2010/11; this represents an increase of £1,161m (15%) over the 2009/10 total of £7,668m.
  • In the calendar year 2010 the UK reported £8,452m as Official Development Assistance (ODA), making the UK the 2nd largest OECD-DAC donor on this internationally agreed classification of aid.  The UK’s ODA/ GNI ratio for 2010 was 0.57 per cent.
  • In 2010/11 £4,248m (55%) of the DFID programme was bilateral assistance and £3,222m (42%) was multilateral assistance.  The remaining £219m (3%) was spent on administration costs.
  • Of the £4,248m bilateral assistance delivered in 2010/11, 67 per cent (or £2,839m) was spent through DFID’s country programme.
  • DFID’s bilateral expenditure rose to £4,248m in 2010/11 from £3,958m in 2009/10 (a 7% increase). India (£279m), Ethiopia (£251m) and Pakistan (£203m) received the largest amounts of DFID bilateral aid.
  • In 2010/11, DFID provided bilateral assistance to 78 countries, of which 36 countries received direct financial aid. The total DFID bilateral assistance to these 36 countries was £2,265m. When humanitarian assistance is excluded, DFID bilateral assistance to these 36 countries represented 85 per cent of DFID country specific bilateral aid.
  • DFID’s bilateral assistance excluding humanitarian assistance was £3,897m in 2010/11, up from £3,524m in 2009/10 (an 11% increase).  India (£279m), Ethiopia (£245m) and Bangladesh (£171m) were the largest recipients of bilateral aid excluding humanitarian assistance.
  • DFID’s bilateral humanitarian assistance in 2010/11 totalled £351m, representing a decrease of £84m (19%) from 2009/10.  The largest recipients of bilateral humanitarian assistance were Sudan (£84m), Pakistan (£83m) and the Democratic Republic of Congo. (£47m).  In 2010/11, 7 countries received only humanitarian assistance bilaterally.
  • DFID’s bilateral assistance to sub-Saharan Africa rose to £1,760m in 2010/11 from £1,539m in 2009/10 (a 14% increase).  In 2009/10, it is estimated that £934m of DFID’s core contributions to multilateral organisations were spent in sub-Saharan Africa . DFID also gives core funding to not-for-profit organisations which is spent in Africa, for example through Oxfam or Voluntary Service Organisation (VSO).
  • DFID bilateral assistance to Asia has remained level from 2008/09 to 2010/11. The 2010/11 figure was £1,093m. Bilateral assistance to the Pacific increased from £2.1m in 2009/10 to £2.6m in 2010/11 (a 24% increase). However, this follows a decrease of a similar size from 2008/09 to 2009/10. Bilateral assistance to Europe decreased from £21m in 2009/10 to £18m in 2010/11 (a decrease of 14%).
  • In 2010/11 £329m of bilateral assistance was channelled through UK Civil Society Organisations.
  • DFID’s total multilateral programme accounted for £3,222m in 2010/11 up from £2,436m in 2009/10. This represents a large increase of 32%.
  • The European Commission’s development programme received the largest amount of DFID multilateral assistance (£1,269m), followed by the World Bank (£927m) and the United Nations (£355m).
  • The sector receiving the highest share of DFID bilateral expenditure in 2010/11 was the health sector with £830m.  This was followed by the government and civil society sector with £787m and the economic sector with £782m.
Last updated: 19 Jan 2012

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