Changes to Luxembourg’s ODA in 2019

In 2019, Luxembourg’s offi­cial devel­op­ment assis­tance (ODA) amount­ed to EUR420.80 mil­lion, 1.04% of gross nation­al income (GNI). Thus Lux­em­bourg is still one of the small num­ber of OECD mem­bers – along­side Den­mark, Nor­way, Swe­den and the Unit­ed King­dom – to have main­tained its ODA at 0.7% of GNI or above. 

At the inter­na­tion­al lev­el, offi­cial devel­op­ment assis­tance reached USD152.8 bil­lion in 2019, a slight increase (1.4%) in real terms com­pared to 2018. This rep­re­sents 0.30% of the com­bined GNI of the 30 mem­bers of the OECD’s Devel­op­ment Assis­tance Com­mit­tee (DAC). The G7 coun­tries pro­vid­ed 75% of ODA, with EU Mem­ber States pro­vid­ing 55% of ODA.

Fol­low­ing a drop in bilat­er­al aid to the least devel­oped coun­tries in 2018, this recov­ered in 2019 (+2.6%). The same applies to assis­tance to Africa (+1.3%). Human­i­tar­i­an aid has fall­en for the sec­ond year in a row, decreas­ing by 2.9% com­pared to 2018.

Net glob­al ODA has dou­bled since 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, it grew by 69%, espe­cial­ly pro­mot­ed by the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals and the Mon­ter­rey and Gle­nea­gles con­fer­ences on financ­ing for devel­op­ment. Sub­se­quent­ly, as a result of the finan­cial cri­sis and the tur­moil in the euro area, it decreased in 2011 and 2012, before ris­ing again in 2013 and reach­ing its peak in 2016, affect­ed by the migra­tion flows in Europe.