(11 April 2019) – With €74.4 billion, the European Union and its Member States continued to be the world’s leading provider of official development assistance in 2018.
This was confirmed by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) in their latest report on preliminary figures for 2018.
Collective assistance from the European Union and its Member States amounted to more than €74.4 billion in 2018.
European development assistance represents almost 57% of the total global development assistance by all OECD-DAC donors.