Overseas Aid
(asked on 3rd November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of UK Official Development Assistance was spent in (a) Least Developed Countries, (b) Lower Middle Income Countries and (c) Upper Middle Income Countries in Asia in 2019.
The table below sets out UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend in Least Developed Countries, Lower Middle Income Countries and Upper Middle Income Countries in Asia as a proportion of total UK ODA.
| Total ODA Country Spend in Asia, 2019 £m | As a % of total UK ODA* |
Least Developed Countries | £1,016 | 6.7% |
Lower Middle Income countries | £937 | 6.2% |
Upper Middle Income Countries | £328 | 2.2% |
Source: Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2019,
* please note the Statistics on International Development publication calculates income group spend as a proportion of ODA assigned to a specific country rather than total ODA