France has never given so much

2023-04-19 08:00:00

THE FIGURE OF THE WEEK. France spent a record $15.9 billion in official development assistance last year.

By PA. D.

France spent nearly $16 billion in 2022 as part of official development assistance.
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Published on 04/19/2023 at 10:00 a.m.

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SAccording to OECD data, the amount devoted by France to official development assistance (ODA) amounted to 15.9 billion dollars in 2022, or 0.56% of its gross national income (GNI). ). This share has been constantly increasing since 2014, when it reached a low of 0.36%. The programming law promulgated in August 2021 relating to solidarity development and the fight against global inequalities, also known as the solidarity development law, provides for France to reach the 0.7% target set by the United Nations by 2025.

France, 10^e donor country

Only five countries honored this commitment last year: Luxembourg, with 1% of its GNI devoted to development aid poor countries, Sweden (0.9%), Norway (0.86%), Germany (0.83%) and Denmark (0.7%). In proportion to its national wealth, France ranks 10^e rank of donated countriesners. She is ahead notably the United Kingdom (12^ewith 0.51%), Japan (15^ewith 0.39%) or Italy (19^ewith 0.32%).

READ ALSODevelopment aid: what is France doing? With a share of 0.22% of its GNI allocated to official development assistance, the United States ranks only 26^e place in this ranking. They are nonetheless the largest donors in terms of amount, with 55.3 billion dollars granted in 2022, ahead of Germany (35 billion dollars) and Japan (17.5 billion dollars).

Au total, official development assistance reached a record $204 billion last year, compared to $186 billion in 2021, due in particular to the strong increased spending on the treatment and reception of refugees in donor countries, which rose at 29.3 billion the dollarsi.e. 14.4% of ODA, against 12.8 billion the dollars in 2021.

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