Provisional UK Official Development Assistance as a proportion of Gross National Income, 2009

01 April 2010

The Department for International Development (DFID) has published provisional statistics on UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a proportion of Gross National Income (ODA:GNI) in 2009.

UK Official Development Assistance 2009 – overall levels (See also Tables 1,2)

• UK ODA accounted for 0.52 per cent of UK Gross National Income (GNI) in 2009, compared with 0.43 per cent in 2008; this is the highest level of the ODA:GNI ratio since the United Nations target of 0.7% was set in 1970.
• UK ODA in 2009 is estimated at £7,365 million compared with the 2008 figure of £6,356 million; this is the highest level of UK ODA ever recorded.
• UK ODA excluding debt relief as a proportion of GNI was 0.51 percent in 2009 compared with 0.40 per cent in 2008.
• UK ODA excluding debt relief in 2009 is estimated at £7,329 million, an increase on the equivalent 2008 figure of £5,944 million.

Within the UK ODA total:

• Bilateral expenditure increased to £4,974 million in 2009 from £4,072 million in 2008.
• Excluding debt relief, bilateral ODA was £4,937 million in 2009 compared with £3,749 million in 2008.
• ODA contributions to multilateral organisations such as the United Nations, European Commission, the World Bank and other regional banks increased to £2,391 million in 2009 from £2,284 million in 2008.