International Aid since 1990

Freedom of Information Act 2000, request no. F2008/069

Date of release: 28 April 2008

1. How much funding has the UK given to the developing world i.e. Africa, Latin America and Asia since 1990.

Details on the amount of net Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by the UK between 1990 and 2006, broken down by region, can be found in the table below. The UK’s provisional net ODA for 2007 is estimated at £4,957 million. A regional breakdown of UK ODA in 2007 is not yet available. Please also note that DFID publishes an annual publication called ‘Statistics on International Development’ which provides full details of total external assistance, both bilateral (country to country) and through multilateral agencies, from all official UK sources. Copies are available on our website.

UK Net Official Development Assistance (ODA) Since 1990, by Region, £millions.

Year	Total UK Net ODA	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Pacific	Non-Specific Country	Multilateral Contributions
1990	1,485	322	57	242	-3	16	197	655
1991	1,815	446	67	277	11	15	215	784
1992	1,848	418	61	239	8	15	227	880
1993	1,945	331	67	277	77	12	251	930
1994	2,089	428	82	295	79	13	255	937
1995	2,029	388	95	310	29	8	257	942
1996	2,050	413	71	335	50	8	271	903
1997	2,096	399	176	321	37	7	268	888
1998	2,332	507	125	333	25	11	285	1,045
1999	2,118	498	189	311	58	12	322	728
2000	2,974	760	140	402	105	3	380	1,184
2001	3,179	836	122	426	39	3	395	1,359
2002	3,281	698	188	605	324	5	516	946
2003	3,847	924	83	752	24	0	582	1,482
2004	4,302	1,327	68	871	20	-2	630	1,388
2005	5,923	2,088	73	1,584	72	4	671	1,432
2006	6,770	2,968	19	910	113	2	724	2,033

The primary reason for the decline in UK ODA in 2007 is the result of lower levels of debt relief. In 2006 the UK gave more than £1.9 billion in debt relief, primarily to Nigeria; this fell to £35 million in 2007. Despite the decline in 2007, the UK remains on target to provide 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) as ODA by 2013, two years ahead of the EU target.

2. how much funding has gone into providing HIV/AIDS prophylactics i.e. condoms and family planning in each of the above regions since 1990 (not medication)?

3. how much funding has gone into HIV/IDS medication in each of the above regions since 1990.

We do not hold information which would fully answer these questions. DFID does not collate data that would separately identify the amounts spent on HIV and AIDS prevention and HIV and AIDS treatment. However, DFID introduced a methodology last year to determine its total funding for all HIV and AIDS activities. The table below shows how much DFID has spent in total in each region on HIV and AIDS since 2004/05. Data is not available before this period.

DFID Total Funding on HIV and AIDS Activities, 2004/05 – 2006/07, £millions.

Year	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Pacific	Non-Specific Region	Multilateral	Total
2004/05	133	4	74	3	0	42	52	309
2005/06	170	3	99	1	0	43	101	417
2006/07	170	3	110	1	0	60	136	481

You may also be interested to know that our website includes a lot of information on our HIV and AIDS work such as this factsheet (180kb).