Overseas Aid
(asked on 25th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which five countries have been the greatest recipients of UK foreign aid in each of the last three years.
The five largest recipients of UK bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) spent by either DFID or other government departments is given in the Table below:
Table: Top 5 country recipients of UK bilateral ODA, 2013-2015
2013 |
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Country | £m | Country | £ m | Country | £ m |
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Pakistan | 338 | Ethiopia | 322 | Pakistan | 374 | ||
Ethiopia | 329 | India | 279 | Ethiopia | 339 | ||
Bangladesh | 272 | Pakistan | 266 | Afghanistan | 300 | ||
India | 268 | Sierra Leone | 238 | Nigeria | 263 | ||
Nigeria | 249 | Nigeria | 237 | Syria | 258 |
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Source: Statistics on International Development 2016