Volume against effort
The full ledger
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Money for Palestine and Gaza
This panel deliberately does not rank donors. The donor-by-donor breakdown for Palestine is not published anywhere that can be verified at this vintage. What follows is what the published aggregates do support.
The appeal and the response
The humanitarian community asked for just over four billion dollars in 2025 to reach people across Gaza and the West Bank. Funding recorded against that appeal covered a small fraction of it.
Where the recorded money landed
Of the humanitarian funding logged for the occupied Palestinian territory in 2025, this is the split by receiving organisation. It is a picture of delivery, not of who paid.
UNRWA's own books
The agency carrying most of the load publishes its funding position openly, which makes it the clearest window onto Palestine financing that currently exists.
Against that income the agency had asked for 880 million dollars for its core programme budget and a further 2.16 billion for humanitarian operations, of which 1.7 billion was for the occupied Palestinian territory and 464 million for Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Two major donors ended their contributions during the year, producing a significant deficit. Around twelve per cent of income came from private and individual giving rather than from governments.
The one donor signal in the 2025 release
The OECD's preliminary note mentions Palestine once in a donor context. The United Arab Emirates raised its aid by 55.5 per cent in 2025, the largest proportional increase of any reporting government, and the OECD attributes that rise principally to bilateral humanitarian aid for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It is a single data point rather than a ranking, and at this vintage it is the only one available.
What this is
A comparison of what forty-five governments provided in development assistance during 2025, set against three different readings of what they could afford. Everything on the Explore page comes from a single OECD release. Nothing has been modelled, projected or estimated except where this page says so.
Sources
| Field | Source | Vintage |
|---|---|---|
| Total aid, bilateral and multilateral split, share of national income, year-on-year change | OECD, Preliminary official development assistance levels in 2025, DCD(2026)8, Tables 1 and 2 | Released 9 April 2026, reissued 15 June 2026 |
| National income | Derived from the two OECD columns above | Same |
| Population | Entered by hand from standard mid-2025 estimates | Mid-2025 |
| Palestine appeal, funding, receiving organisations | UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service, occupied Palestinian territory country page | 2025 full year, as recorded |
| UNRWA income and requirements | UNRWA published funding statements; UN General Assembly document A/80/340 | 2025 full year |
Calculations
National income
The OECD publishes total aid and aid as a percentage of national income, but not the income figure itself. Dividing one by the other recovers it exactly, which means the denominator here is the OECD's own rather than a second source that would not quite line up.
Liechtenstein and Monaco did not supply income data for 2025 and are shown blank rather than estimated.
Per person
Population is the only hand-entered field and the least precise. Treat per-person figures as accurate to within roughly two per cent.
Share routed via multilaterals
Bilateral aid is grants plus the grant equivalent of loans plus debt relief plus private sector instruments. Multilateral aid is grants and capital subscriptions plus the grant equivalent of loans to multilateral bodies.
Fair share
One number expressing how a country's contribution compares with the contribution its capacity implies. One means a country provides exactly its weight; below one means it provides less.
Capacity switches between national income and population. Both denominators are computed across the full set of reporters holding data for that field, not across whatever filter is applied, so the numbers stay stable as you filter.
Disclaimers and known limits
The grant-equivalent switch
Since 2018 the headline figure counts only the gift portion of a concessional loan, not its face value. This is why Canada appears as 7.2 billion dollars here and 10.1 billion on the older cash basis, a gap of 28.5 per cent and the largest of any reporting government. Neither number is wrong; they answer different questions. A Canadian aid figure near ten billion is the cash basis.
Aid that never leaves home
Money spent hosting asylum seekers inside a donor country counts as aid under OECD rules. It came to 23.0 billion dollars in 2025, or 13.2 per cent of the total. Debt relief grants, administrative overhead and imputed costs for foreign students in the donor country also count. Stripping these out would reorder parts of this table, but it would be a normative choice rather than a technical correction, since hosting refugees is a real cost of real assistance. Both readings deserve to exist.
Development assistance is not humanitarian aid
Humanitarian assistance was 15.5 billion of the 174.3 billion dollar total in 2025, having fallen 35.8 per cent in a year. The rest is development finance: infrastructure, health systems, education, budget support, concessional lending.
Who is not here
China, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Russia do not report on this basis. Four OECD members, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico, do not report their development finance either. Twelve governments outside the Development Assistance Committee do report and are included, totalling 13.3 billion dollars. This is therefore a ranking of governments that report, which is not the same as a ranking of the world.
The receiving side is absent
This page shows giving only. The World Bank series for aid received runs from 1960 to 2023 and stops there. Setting a 2023 receipt figure beside a 2025 provision figure would span the largest contraction in the history of these statistics, so the two have deliberately not been merged. Building the receiving side properly means using 2023 on both sides, or keeping the panels visibly separate.
Preliminary means preliminary
These are advance questionnaire responses. Final detailed figures arrive in December 2026 and rankings have shifted on revision before. Germany leads the United States in 2025 by 135 million dollars out of 29 billion, well inside the range a revision could move.
Synthesis
Three findings hold up across every way of cutting this data.
- The collapse is concentrated rather than general. Aid fell 23.1 per cent in real terms and a single donor accounted for three quarters of that fall. Twenty-six of thirty-four reporters cut; eight increased.
- Volume and effort tell opposing stories and neither is honest alone. Four countries clear the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of national income, and between them they provide less than a tenth of the total. The fair-share view exists to put both on one scale.
- The denominator matters less than the numerator. Switching capacity from national income to population reorders the table; stripping in-donor refugee costs from the aid figure would reorder it further. Decades of argument have gone into which denominator is fair. Much less has gone into what should count as aid in the first place.
Reuse
The OECD release is public. World Bank indicators are published under Creative Commons Attribution. OCHA tracking service data is openly available. Nothing on this page is untraceable to one of those three, apart from the population column, which is flagged above.