Changes to Luxembourg’s Official Development Assistance in 2023

ODA data are pub­lished by the OECD twice a year, in spring (pre­lim­i­nary report) and autumn (final report). The pre­lim­i­nary report pro­vides an overview of ODA, exclud­ing infor­ma­tion on sec­tors of inter­ven­tion and geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion. The final report presents the final data and includes a detailed break­down by sec­tor and by country.

In 2023, Luxembourg’s ODA amount­ed to EUR536.47 mil­lion, 0.99% of gross nation­al income (GNI). In real terms, tak­ing infla­tion into account, Luxembourg’s ODA fell by 1.8% com­pared to 2022, but in absolute terms it increased by 6.5% com­pared to 2022. Lux­em­bourg is there­fore still one of the small num­ber of OECD mem­bers — along­side Nor­way (1.09%), Swe­den (0.91%), Ger­many (0.79%) and Den­mark (0.74%) — to have main­tained its ODA at 0.7% of GNI or above. In absolute terms, the US remains the most gen­er­ous donor, fol­lowed by Ger­many, the Euro­pean Union, Japan and the Unit­ed Kingdom.

Inter­na­tion­al­ly, offi­cial devel­op­ment assis­tance rose to an unprece­dent­ed lev­el of USD223.7 bil­lion in 2023, an increase of 1.8% in real terms com­pared to 2022. That rep­re­sents 0.37% of the com­bined GNI of the mem­bers of the OECD’s Devel­op­ment Assis­tance Com­mit­tee and is the high­est lev­el ever achieved. The increase in glob­al offi­cial aid in recent years is large­ly due to spend­ing linked to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, aid to Ukraine and aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.