Statistics on International Development 2011

The UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) amounted to £9,007m in 2010/11. The DFID aid programme accounted for £7,689m (85%) of this expenditure. GPEX increased to £9,007m in 2010/11 from £7,767m in 2009/10. This represents an increase of £1,240m (16%). Excluding debt relief, GPEX totalled £8,829m in 2010/11; this represents an increase of £1,161m (15%) over the 2009/10 total of £7,668m. In the calendar year 2010 the UK reported £8,452m as Official Development Assistance (ODA), making the UK the 2nd largest OECD-DAC donor on this internationally agreed classification of aid. The UK’s ODA/ GNI ratio for 2010 was 0.57 per cent.

In 2010/11 £4,254m (55%) of the DFID programme was bilateral assistance and £3,222m (42%) was multilateral assistance. The remaining £214m (3%) was spent on administration costs. Of the £4,254m bilateral assistance delivered in 2010/11, 67 per cent (or £2,845m) was spent through DFID’s country programme. DFID’s bilateral expenditure rose to £4,254m in 2010/11 from £3,958m in 2009/10 (a 7% increase).India (£279m), Ethiopia (£251m) and Pakistan (£203m) received the largest amounts of DFID bilateral aid. In 2010/11, DFID provided bilateral assistance to 78 countries, of which 37 countries received direct financial aid. The total DFID bilateral assistance to these 37 countries was £2,271m. When humanitarian assistance is excluded, DFID bilateral assistance to these 37 countries represented 85 per cent of DFID country specific bilateral aid.
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