Official Development Assistance - Uses

Uses

There are normally two ways of looking at the volume of ODA:

• In real terms - the amount transfer
• As al government's aid budget is ~the United States transfer 0.2% of its GNI, whereas Sweden's is ~1%.

As a percentage Sweden is the largest donor among developed countries, and together with Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark it meets the International Aid Target of dedicating 0.7% of GNP.