SID 2012 Key Statistics

Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX)

• The UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) amounted to £8,950m in 2011/12. The DFID aid programme accounted for £7,682m (87%) of this expenditure.
• GPEX decreased to £8,950m in 2011/12 from £9,007m in 2010/11.  This represents a decrease of £57m (0.6%).
• Excluding debt relief, GPEX totalled £8,768m in 2011/12; this represents a decrease of £61m (0.7%) from the 2010/11 total of £8,829m.
• 2011/12 £4,204m (55%) of the DFID programme was bilateral assistance and £3,258m (42%) was multilateral assistance.  The remaining £220m (3%) was spent on administration costs.

DFID’s Bilateral GPEX

• DFID’s bilateral expenditure fell to £4,204m in 2011/12 from £4,248m in 2010/11 (a 1% decrease).  Of the £4,204m bilateral assistance delivered in 2011/12, 73 per cent (or £3,050m) was spent through DFID’s country programme .
• DFID’s bilateral assistance to sub-Saharan Africa rose to £1,807m in 2011/12 from £1,760m in 2010/11 (a 3% increase).  DFID bilateral assistance to Asia increased from £1,093m in 2010/11 to £1,165m in 2011/12 (a 7% increase). Bilateral assistance to the Pacific increased from £2.6m in 2010/11 to £3.0m in 2011/12 (a 15% increase). Bilateral assistance to Europe decreased from £18m in 2010/11 to £5m in 2011/12 (a decrease of 72%).
• In 2011/12, DFID provided bilateral assistance to 68 countries, of which 31 countries received direct financial aid. The total DFID bilateral assistance to these 31 countries was £2,424m. When humanitarian assistance is excluded, DFID bilateral assistance to these 31 countries represented 85 per cent of DFID country specific bilateral aid.
• Ethiopia (£324m), India (£284m) and Bangladesh (£219m) received the largest amounts of DFID bilateral aid.
• DFID’s bilateral assistance excluding humanitarian assistance was £3,850m in 2011/12, down from £3,897m in 2010/11 (a 1% decrease).  India (£284m), Ethiopia (£268m) and Bangladesh (£219m) were the largest recipients of bilateral aid excluding humanitarian assistance.
• DFID’s bilateral humanitarian assistance in 2011/12 totalled £354m, representing a decrease of £3m (1%) from 2010/11.  The largest recipients of bilateral humanitarian assistance were the Somali Republic (£79m), Pakistan (£59m) and Ethiopia (£57m).  In 2011/12 7 countries received only humanitarian assistance bilaterally.
• In 2011/12 £336m of bilateral assistance was channelled through UK Civil Society Organisations.
• The sector receiving the highest share of DFID bilateral expenditure in 2011/12 was the health sector with £929m.  This was followed by the government and civil society sector with £728m and the education sector with £625m.

DFID’s Multilateral GPEX

• DFID’s total multilateral programme accounted for £3,258m in 2011/12 up from £3,222m in 2010/11. This represents an increase of 1%.
• The European Commission’s development programme received the largest amount of DFID multilateral assistance (£1,220), followed by the World Bank (£1,039m) and the United Nations (£377m).

Official Development Assistance (ODA)

• In the calendar year 2011 the UK reported £8,629m as Official Development Assistance (ODA), making the UK the 3rd largest OECD-DAC donor on this internationally agreed classification of aid.  The UK’s ODA/GNI ratio for 2011 was 0.56 per cent.