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Statistical Release
4 October 2007
2007 Edition of Statistics on International Development
The
Department for International Development (DFID) has released details of
financial year 2006/07 development assistance expenditure in the
2007 edition of
Statistics on International Development (SID).
SID provides details of the volume, type, destination and purpose of all UK development assistance. Key statistics for the financial year 2006/07 are:
• The UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) amounted to £7,487m in 2006/07 up from £6,679 in 2005/06 a rise of £808m or 12% |
• The DFID aid programme accounted for £4,923m (66%) of GPEX expenditure in 2006/07 compared to £4,464m (67%) in the previous year |
• GPEX excluding debt relief increased to £5,475m in 2006/07 a rise of £451m 9% on the 2005/06 figure of £5,024m |
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- Total GPEX in Africa rose to £2,992m in 2006/07 from £2,423m in 2005/06, an increase of £569m (23 per cent). Debt relief to Nigeria accounted for £513m of this increase.
- In 2006/07 £2,562m (52 per cent) of DFID expenditure was bilateral assistance and £2,126m (43 per cent) was multilateral assistance. The remaining £234m (5 per cent) was spent on administration costs.
- DFIDs bilateral expenditure rose to £2,562m in 2006/07 from £2,502m in 2005/06. DFID’s bilateral assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa rose slightly to £1107m from £1097m while assistance to Asia fell from £943m to £881m.
- DFID’s total multilateral programme accounted for £2126m of expenditure in 2006/07 compared to £1725m in 2005/06 a rise of 23 per cent
UK Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) (£m)
Total GPEX |
DFID Programme |
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2005-06 |
2006-07 |
% change |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
% change |
|
Total bilateral assistance |
4,417 |
4,903 |
+11.0% |
2,502 |
2,562 |
+2.4% |
Of which: |
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Africa |
2,423 |
2,992 |
+23.5% |
1,140 |
1,135 |
-0.4% |
Of which: sub-saharan Africa |
2,361 |
2,926 |
+23.9% |
1,097 |
1,107 |
+0.9% |
Asia |
1,356 |
1,072 |
-20.9% |
943 |
881 |
-6.5% |
Europe, Americas and Pacific |
179 |
248 |
+38.2% |
104 |
106 |
+1.9% |
Other |
459 |
592 |
+29.0% |
316 |
440 |
+39.4% |
Total multilateral assistance |
2,006 |
2,338 |
+16.6% |
1,725 |
2,126 |
+23.3% |
Administration |
256 |
246 |
-4.1% |
237 |
234 |
-1.1% |
Total |
6,679 |
7,487 |
+12.1% |
4,464 |
4,923 |
+10.3% |
- India received the largest amount of DFID bilateral aid in 2006-07 (£234m) The next largest recipients were Tanzania (£112m) and Sudan (£110m).
- DFIDs bilateral assistance excluding humanitarian assistance was £2,225m in 2006/07, up from £2,096m in 2005/06 a rise of 6 per cent. The largest recipients of DFID bilateral aid excluding humanitarian assistance were India (£232m), Tanzania (£111m) and Bangladesh (£109m).
- DFID’s humanitarian assistance in 2006/07 totalled £484m representing an decrease of £64m (12 per cent). £336m was spent bilaterally and £148m multilaterally. The largest recipients of bilateral humanitarian assistance were Sudan (£84m), Democratic Republic of Congo (£52m) and Indonesia (£19m).
- In 2006/07 £274m of bilateral assistance was channelled through UK Civil Society Organisations. Major recipients included the British Red Cross, VSO and Oxfam.
- The largest proportion of DFID’s multilateral programme was provided to European Community’s development programme (£964m). The World Bank received £592m while £308m was provided to the United Nations
Official Development Assistance (ODA)
Official Development Assistance (ODA) is the internationally agreed classification of aid. These figures are calculated on a calendar year basis. SID 2007 presents data for the calendar year 2006. These show that
- The UK reported £6,770m as official development assistance (ODA), making the UK the second largest OECD-DAC donor.
- The UK’s ODA/GNI ratio for 2006 was 0.51 per cent, giving a ranking of 7th out of the 22 DAC donors.
- Excluding debt relief ODA was £4,862m which represented 0.37 per cent of GNI.
- Bilateral ODA increased from £4,491m to £4,737m representing an increase of 5.5 per cent.
- Bilateral ODA to South of Sahara Africa (SSA) rose from £2,071m to £2,933m billion, an increase on 41.6 per cent.
- Excluding debt relief, bilateral ODA to South of Sahara Africa increased from £878 million to £1,139m.
Background notes
Gross Public Expenditure on Development includes DFID programme expenditure, aid from other UK Government Departments, investments and debt relief from CDC Capital Partners and debt relief from ECGD.
The United Nations has a target stating that donors should give 0.7% of their gross national income (GNI) as ODA. The UK has agreed to reach this target by 2013.
Statistics on International Development is available electronically on this web site. Hard copies will be available from DFID’s Corporate Planning and Performance Group at the address below from early November.
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