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OECD Foreign Aid Trend (2024 vs 2025)
Comparison of global development aid provided by OECD members between 2024 and 2025.
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Global Aid Slashed: OECD Reports Record Drop in 2025
In a significant development, overseas aid from the world's wealthiest nations plummeted by 23.1% in 2025, marking the largest annual reduction on record. This sharp decline was reported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Thursday.The Organisation revealed that the reduction was largely driven by the United States, which accounted for three-quarters of the decline. Due to these cuts, Germany has emerged as the largest donor for the first time. Carsten Staur, the chair of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, described the situation as 'extremely sombre' during a news briefing.Other major donors, including Germany, France, Britain, and Japan, also significantly cut their aid contributions. The OECD highlighted that this decrease poses a challenge for poorer countries, already burdened by expensive debt. The organisation encourages stronger tax collection efforts to counterbalance the shrinking aid. (With inputs from agencies.)
US led 'historic' foreign aid decline in 2025 amid Trump cuts: OECD
Washington, DC – Preliminary data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that international development aid from its members dropped by about 23 percent from 2024 to 2025.Much of that decline was attributed to a major shortfall in funding from the United States.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3US slashes UN humanitarian aid to $2bn, huge cut as Trump demands reformslist 2 of 3‘Waiting to die’: Hunger, devastation in Tigray a year after US aid cutslist 3 of 3Trump is the ‘elephant in the room’ as the African Union holds new summitend of listThe forum, which includes many of the the largest economies across Europe and the Americas, said on Thursday that the US saw a nearly 57 percent drop in foreign aid in 2025.The OECD’s four other top contributors — Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and France — also saw declines in their foreign aid assistance.The report marked the first time foreign development assistance from all five of the OECD’s top donors simultaneously declined. The total assistance for 2025 totaled only $174.3bn, down from $214.6bn the year before, representing the largest annual drop since the OECD began recording the data.OECD officials warned the dramatic decrease comes at a time when global economic and food security has been cast into doubt amid the stresses of the US-Israeli war with Iran.“It’s deeply concerning to see this huge drop in [development funding] in 2025, due to dramatic cuts among the very top donors,” OECD official Carsten Staur said in a statement.Thursday’s preliminary data shows that only eight member countries met or exceeded their funding from 2024.“We are in a time of increasing humanitarian needs,” Staur added, citing growing global uncertainty and extreme poverty. “I can only plead that DAC donors reverse this negative trend and start to increase their [assistance].”The data covers the 34 members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), which provide the vast majority of global foreign assistance.But the numbers offer an incomplete picture of global development aid, as it fails to include influential non-DAC members including Turkiye, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and China.The data tracked by the OECD distinguishes official development assistance from other forms of aid, including military funds.US drives ‘three-quarters of the decline’In its preliminary assessment, the OECD noted that the US “alone drove three-quarters of the decline” in 2025, the ...
Wealthy donors cut back as global aid drops by 23 per cent in 2025
Global aid from wealthy countries fell dramatically in 2025, marking the largest drop ever recorded, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported on Thursday. According to the OECD, total foreign aid, also known as official development assistance (ODA), decreased by 23.1 per cent last year, dropping from $214.6 billion (Sh27.7 trillion) in 2024 to $174.3 billion ...
Historic drop in Official Development Assistance in 2025
Published on 09/04/2026. The OECD published, on April 9 2026, the preliminary figures for the amounts allocated by donor countries to Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2025. For the second year in a row, the 32 members of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) have made a historic renunciation in 2025.
