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Economic aid - recipient (Country profile category: Economy)

Afghanistan:
US provided about $70 million in humanitarian assistance in 1997; US continues to contribute to multilateral assistance through the UN programs of food aid, immunization, land mine removal, and a wide range of aid to refugees and displaced persons

Albania:
EU pledged $100 million to share with The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1999)

Algeria:
$897.5 million (1994)

American Samoa:
$NA; note - important financial support from the US

Andorra:
none

Angola:
$493.1 million (1995)

Anguilla:
$3.5 million (1995)

Antigua and Barbuda:
$2.3 million (1995)

Argentina:
$2.833 billion (1995)

Armenia:
$245.5 million (1995)

Aruba:
$26 million (1995); note - the Netherlands provided a $127 million aid package to Aruba and Suriname in 1996

Azerbaijan:
ODA, $113 million (1996)

Bahamas, The:
$9.8 million (1995)

Bahrain:
$48.4 million (1995)

Bangladesh:
$1.475 billion (FY96/97)

Barbados:
$9.1 million (1995)

Belarus:
$194.3 million (1995)

Belize:
$23.4 million (1995)

Benin:
$281.2 million (1995)

Bermuda:
$27.9 million (1995)

Bhutan:
$73.8 million (1995)

Bolivia:
$588 million (1997)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
$1.2 billion (1997 pledged)

Botswana:
$73 million (1995)

Brazil:
$1.012 billion (1995)

British Virgin Islands:
$2.6 million (1995)

Brunei:
$4.3 million (1995)

Bulgaria:
$NA

Burkina Faso:
$484.1 million (1995)

Burma:
$99 million (FY98/99)

Burundi:
$1.344 billion (1999 est.)

Cambodia:
$470 million pledged in grants and concessional loans for 2000 by international donors

Cameroon:
$606.1 million (1995); note - France signed two loan agreements totaling $55 million in September 1997, and the Paris Club agreed in October 1997 to reduce the official debt by 50% and to reschedule it on favorable terms with a consolidation of payments due through 2000

Cape Verde:
$111.3 million (1995)

Cayman Islands:
$NA

Central African Republic:
$172.2 million (1995); note - traditional budget subsidies from France

Chad:
$238.3 million (1995); note - $125 million committed by Taiwan (August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank

Chile:
ODA, $50.3 million (1996 est.)

China:
$NA

Christmas Island:
$NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
$NA

Colombia:
$40.7 million (1995)

Comoros:
$28.1 million (1997)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
$195.3 million (1995)

Congo, Republic of the:
$159.1 million (1995)

Cook Islands:
$13.1 million (1995); note - New Zealand furnishes the greater part

Costa Rica:
$107.1 million (1995)

Cote d'Ivoire:
ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)

Croatia:
$NA

Cuba:
$68.2 million (1997 est.)

Cyprus:
Greek Cypriot area - $17 million (1998); Turkish Cypriot area - $700 million from Turkey in grants and loans (1990-97) that are usually forgiven

Czech Republic:
$351.6 million (1995)

Djibouti:
$106.3 million (1995)

Dominica:
$24.4 million (1995)

Dominican Republic:
$239.6 million (1995)

Ecuador:
$695.7 million (1995)

Egypt:
ODA, $2.25 billion (1999)

El Salvador:
total $252 million; $57 million from US (1999 est.)

Equatorial Guinea:
$33.8 million (1995)

Eritrea:
$123.1 million (1997)

Estonia:
$137.3 million (1995)

Ethiopia:
$367 million (FY95/96)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
$1.7 million (1995)

Faroe Islands:
$150 million (annual subsidy from Denmark) (1995)

Fiji:
$40.3 million (1995)

French Guiana:
$NA

French Polynesia:
$450.4 million (1995)

Gabon:
$331 million (1995)

Gambia, The:
$45.4 million (1995)

Gaza Strip:
$800 million pledged (includes West Bank) (1999)

Georgia:
$212.7 million (1995)

Ghana:
$477.3 million (1995)

Gibraltar:
$NA

Greece:
$5.4 billion from EU (1997 est.)

Greenland:
$427 million (annual subsidy from Denmark) (1995)

Grenada:
$8.3 million (1995)

Guadeloupe:
$NA; note - substantial annual French subsidies

Guam:
$NA; note - although Guam receives no foreign aid, it does receive large transfer payments from the general revenues of the US Federal Treasury into which Guamanians pay no income or excise taxes; under the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guam Treasury, rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by military and civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam

Guatemala:
$212 million (1995)

Guernsey:
$NA

Guinea:
$433.6 million (1995)

Guinea-Bissau:
$115.4 million (1995)

Guyana:
$84 million (1995), Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC) $253 million (1997)

Haiti:
$730.6 million (1995)

Holy See (Vatican City):
none

Honduras:
$557.8 million (1999)

Hong Kong:
none

Hungary:
$122.7 million (1995)

Iceland:
$NA

India:
$2.9 billion (FY98/99)

Indonesia:
$43 billion from IMF program and other official external financing (1997-2000)

Iran:
$116.5 million (1995)

Iraq:
$327.5 million (1995)

Israel:
$1.1 billion from the US (1999)

Jamaica:
$102.7 million (1995)

Jersey:
none

Jordan:
ODA, $850 million (1996 est.)

Kazakhstan:
$409.6 million (1995)

Kenya:
$457 million (1997)

Kiribati:
$15.5 million (1995), largely from UK and Japan

Korea, North:
$NA; note - an estimated $200 million to $300 million in humanitarian aid from US, South Korea, Japan, and EU in 1997 plus much additional aid from the UN and non-governmental organizations

Korea, South:
$NA

Kuwait:
$27.6 million (1995)

Kyrgyzstan:
$329.4 million (1995)

Laos:
$345 million (1999 est.)

Latvia:
$96.2 million (1995)

Lebanon:
$3.5 billion (pledges 1997-2001)

Lesotho:
$123.7 million (1995)

Liberia:
$200 million pledged (1998)

Libya:
$8.4 million (1995)

Liechtenstein:
none

Lithuania:
$228.5 million (1995)

Macau:
$NA

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
Taiwan $10.5 million; EU $100 million to be split with Albania (1999)

Madagascar:
$838 million (1997)

Malawi:
$416.5 million (1995)

Maldives:
$NA

Mali:
$596.4 million (1995)

Malta:
$NA

Man, Isle of:
$NA

Marshall Islands:
approximately $65 million annually from the US

Martinique:
$NA; note - substantial annual aid from France

Mauritania:
$227.9 million (1995)

Mauritius:
$42 million (1997)

Mayotte:
$107.7 million (1995); note - extensive French financial assistance

Mexico:
$1.166 billion (1995)

Micronesia, Federated States of:
$79 million (1998); note - under terms of the Compact of Free Association, the US will provide $1.3 billion in grant aid during the period 1986-2001

Moldova:
$100.8 million (1995); note - $547 million from the IMF and World Bank (1992-99)

Monaco:
$NA

Mongolia:
$250 million (1998 est.)

Montserrat:
$9.8 million (1995); note - about $100 million (1996-98) in reconstruction aid from the UK; Country Policy Plan (1999) is a three-year program for spending $122.8 million in British budgetary assistance

Morocco:
$565.6 million (1995)

Mozambique:
$1.115 billion (1995)

Namibia:
$127 million (1998)

Nauru:
$2.25 million from Australia (FY96/97 est.)

Nepal:
$411 million (FY97/98)

Netherlands Antilles:
$NA; note - Netherlands provided a $97 million aid package in 1996

New Caledonia:
$770 million from France (1998)

Nicaragua:
pledges of $1.4 billion in new aid in 1999

Niger:
$222 million (1995)

Nigeria:
$39.2 million (1995)

Niue:
$8.3 million (1995)

Norfolk Island:
$NA

Northern Mariana Islands:
$21.1 million (1995)

Oman:
$76.4 million (1995)

Pakistan:
$2 billion (FY97/98)

Palau:
$155.8 million (1995); note - the Compact of Free Association with the US, entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, will provide Palau with up to $700 million in US aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities

Panama:
$197.1 million (1995)

Papua New Guinea:
$400 million (1999 est.)

Paraguay:
$NA

Peru:
$895.1 million (1995)

Philippines:
ODA, $1.1 billion (1998)

Pitcairn Islands:
$NA

Poland:
$4.312 billion (1995)

Puerto Rico:
$NA

Qatar:
$NA

Reunion:
$NA; note - substantial annual subsidies from France

Romania:
$510.1 million (1995)

Russia:
$8.523 billion (1995)

Rwanda:
$591.5 million (1997); note - in the summer of 1998, Rwanda presented its policy objectives and development priorities to donor governments resulting in multiyear pledges in the amount of $250 million

Saint Helena:
$12.6 million (1995); note - $5.3 million from UK (1997)

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
$5.5 million (1995)

Saint Lucia:
$51.8 million (1995)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
approximately $65 million in annual grants from France

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
$47.5 million (1995); note - EU $34.5 million (1998)

Samoa:
$42.9 million (1995)

San Marino:
$NA

Sao Tome and Principe:
$57.3 million (1995)

Senegal:
$647.5 million (1995)

Serbia and Montenegro:
$NA

Seychelles:
$16.4 million (1995)

Sierra Leone:
$203.7 million (1995)

Singapore:
$NA

Slovakia:
$421.9 million (1995)

Slovenia:
ODA, $5 million (1993)

Solomon Islands:
$46.4 million (1995)

Somalia:
$191.5 million (1995)

South Africa:
$676.3 million

Sri Lanka:
$577 million (1998)

Sudan:
$187 million (1997)

Suriname:
Netherlands provided $37 million for project and program assistance, European Development Fund $4 million, Belgium $2 million (1998)

Svalbard:
$8.7 million from Norway (1997)

Swaziland:
$55 million (1995)

Syria:
$199 million (1997 est.)

Tajikistan:
$64.7 million (1995)

Tanzania:
$963 million (1997)

Thailand:
$1.732 billion (1995)

Togo:
$201.1 million (1995)

Tokelau:
$3.8 million (1995)

Tonga:
$38.8 million (1995)

Trinidad and Tobago:
$121.4 million (1995)

Tunisia:
$933.2 million (1995); note - ODA, $90 million (1998 est.)

Turkey:
ODA, $195 million (1993)

Turkmenistan:
$27.2 million (1995)

Turks and Caicos Islands:
$5.7 million (1995)

Tuvalu:
$7.9 million (1995); note - substantial annual support from an international trust fund

Uganda:
$839.9 million (1997)

Ukraine:
$637.7 million (1995); IMF Extended Funds Facility $2.2 billion (1998)

United Arab Emirates:
$NA

Uruguay:
$NA

Uzbekistan:
$276.6 million (1995)

Vanuatu:
$45.8 million (1995)

Venezuela:
$35 million with more assistance likely as a result of flooding (1999)

Vietnam:
$2 billion in credits and grants pledged by international donors for 1999 and again for 2000

Virgin Islands:
$NA

Wallis and Futuna:
assistance from France

West Bank:
$800 million pledged (includes Gaza Strip) (1999)

Western Sahara:
$NA

World:
traditional worldwide foreign aid $50 billion (1997 est.)

Yemen:
$176.1 million (1995)

Zambia:
$1.99 billion (1995)

Zimbabwe:
$437.6 million (1995)

Taiwan:
$NA

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