UK aid spending
The UK's official development assistance (aid), £ million, each calendar year since 1970, from the FCDO's Statistics on International Development.
UK aid
£13.1bn
2025
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 02:02 UTCSource: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
56 periods, newest first
| Period | Official development assistance |
|---|---|
| 2025 | £13.1bn |
| 2024 | £14.1bn |
| 2023 | £15.3bn |
| 2022 | £12.8bn |
| 2021 | £11.4bn |
| 2020 | £14.5bn |
| 2019 | £15.2bn |
| 2018 | £14.5bn |
| 2017 | £14.1bn |
| 2016 | £13.4bn |
| 2015 | £12.1bn |
| 2014 | £11.7bn |
| 2013 | £11.4bn |
| 2012 | £8.8bn |
| 2011 | £8.6bn |
| 2010 | £8.5bn |
| 2009 | £7.3bn |
| 2008 | £6.4bn |
| 2007 | £4.9bn |
| 2006 | £6.8bn |
| 2005 | £5.9bn |
| 2004 | £4.3bn |
| 2003 | £3.8bn |
| 2002 | £3.3bn |
| 2001 | £3.2bn |
| 2000 | £3.0bn |
| 1999 | £2.1bn |
| 1998 | £2.3bn |
| 1997 | £2.1bn |
| 1996 | £2.0bn |
| 1995 | £2.0bn |
| 1994 | £2.1bn |
| 1993 | £1.9bn |
| 1992 | £1.8bn |
| 1991 | £1.8bn |
| 1990 | £1.5bn |
| 1989 | £1.6bn |
| 1988 | £1.5bn |
| 1987 | £1.1bn |
| 1986 | £1.2bn |
| 1985 | £1.2bn |
| 1984 | £1.1bn |
| 1983 | £1.1bn |
| 1982 | £1.0bn |
| 1981 | £1.1bn |
| 1980 | £797m |
| 1979 | £1.0bn |
| 1978 | £763m |
| 1977 | £638m |
| 1976 | £487m |
| 1975 | £388m |
| 1974 | £307m |
| 1973 | £246m |
| 1972 | £243m |
| 1971 | £231m |
| 1970 | £186m |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 4 November 2026, 01:58 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-oda-spend-2025SHA-256 f9986f115fadb56e1b724cb8fa9cd1b8a30cf71f3460fe4f7341d729fbee4c54 · 19,727 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6adf3aadd798ae11e9bc5cd5/Chart-tables-Statistics-on-International-Development-final-UK-ODA-spend-2025.odsSHA-256 f8b29ab338ae3424d2dfa17204bbcb8968b0d10ae62f18fafdff3deaf086182a · 41,724 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6adf3a71b62d80a107bc5ceb/Standard-tables-Statistics-on-International-Development-final-UK-ODA-spend-2025.odsSHA-256 5b4f9a72d3e989279221eb294f748a9c30b8e22ccfec0e253f74ebd08caa21b5 · 49,825 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 02:02 UTC Run at 4 November 2026, 02:02 UTC; 56 of 56 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-04T01:58:24Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 56 of 56 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 56 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 56 of 56 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025 ended 308 days before retrieval (limit 700), from Chart tables: statistics on International Development: final UK ODA spend 2025 |
| Pass | Table 1 agrees | 2 of 2 figures match Table 1 of the release's standard tables |
| Pass | Bilateral and multilateral aid add up to the total | 3 of 3 cases of Table 2's years, its bilateral and multilateral aid sum to the total shown, all unrounded within 1e-06 (3 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Official development assistance as the FCDO's Chart table C1 gives it: early years to the nearest £1 million, recent years unrounded.