International aid fell in 2024 for first time in five years – and is expected to get worse Foreign aid spending by 24 countries, including the US, UK and European Union, fell by more than $15bn last year – before the impact of huge cuts by Donald Trump have taken effect.
Spending on international aid by wealthy countries fell in 2024 for the first time in five years, data shows.
Funding from the Development Assistance Committee – a group of 24 territories that includes the US, UK, Australia, and EU member-states – fell by 7.1 per cent year-on-year, down $15.7bn, preliminary 2024 data published by the OECD on Wednesday shows.
This trend is expected to increase significantly as the US cuts huge swathes of its aid spending and other countries, including the UK, redirect aid money into other areas including defence
Does helping Ukraine not count as international aid?
The part that is not given in the form of weapons is counted, but looking at the data I don’t think the aid offered to Ukraine is a factor in the overall decline.
Edit: I quoted this from https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/official-development-assistance-oda.html not from the article
So the headline is misleading.
What do you mean?
Instead of aid to developing countries, the headline says international aid.
Aid to Ukraine is international aid, but Ukraine is not a developing country.
Also it’s only measured on one organisation, so there os no way to judge whether aid through other channels have compensated.
Basically it’s a trash headline, which I detected, so I lost interest in reading the article, except now I read it write this reply.
The article even states that the drop is probably due to an increase in aid to Ukraine. So the headline is decidedly misleading.
Yes, the headline says international aid because it is not only aid to developing countries.
The article explicitly mentions it is because governments choose to spend their money internally, have you even read it??
This is decidedly false:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/
USA alone helped Ukraine with 114 billion USD over 3 years. So there is no way Ukraine only received 15.5 billion in 2024.
The line should possibly read: HUMANITARIAN Aid to Ukraine fell by 16.7 per cent year-on-year to $15.5bn,
Which is completely different.
The article is so poorly written it’s basically misinformation.
You are just plain wrong, you would see that if you would actually read what’s in the source you provide. To be honest I think you just Googled for something that fits your narrative so trying to get a point across might not be worth my time, but to explain what is in the information you provided:
First of all, this data covers bilateral aid to Ukraine between January 24, 2022 and December 31, 2024. In other words, the data covers nearly 3 years while the article writes about 2024 only. Since the data you provide isn’t about the same time period as the article I posted, it is not relevant to your argument.
Second of all, you can see in the graph this is about 3 kinds of aid. Of that $114 bn, 64 is in militairy aid and 64 is financial aid. Both of those are not included, as i explained to you in my previous post. The actual humanitarian aid the US provided over the time period in your graph only 3.4 Bn is actually humanitarian aid.
I don’t disagree that the headline would be more precise if it specifically said humanitarian aid instead of international aid when the article would be about aid from the us (or any other country) to another specific country, as it would be about bilateral aid. International aid in this case can also mean the aid that is given internationally, as in, multiple nations giving aid to multiple nations. But I don’t care about your argument about the preciseness of the headline.
You’re point is that the article is wrong and so poorly written it is basically misinformation and I do not agree at all. But I’m not going to explain why that is bullshit, I’ve wasted enough time. If you want to believe your own truth, be my guest.