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The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) publishes statistics and reports on aid and other resource flows to developing countries, based principally on reporting by DAC Members, multilateral organisations and other donors. Preliminary 2012 ODA figures have been released on 3 April 2013.

The data are collected via two reporting systems:

• The DAC aggregates on aid, other official flows and private flows, including a breakdown on type of aid extended, geographical distribution, sectoral breakdown and tying status of aid.
  
  
• The Creditor Reporting System (CRS) aid activity database, which contains detailed quantitative and descriptive data on individual aid projects and programmes. CRS data are used to analyse the sectoral and geographical breakdown of aid for selected years and donors, to examine aid that promotes specific policy objectives (gender equality, environmental sustainability, untying, aid for trade) and to monitor donors’ compliance with various international recommendations in the field of development co-operation.

The annual DAC Survey on Forward Spending Plans collects information on bilateral and multilateral aid providers' programming for the next 3-5 years. The main results are presented in the annual outlook on aid. In addition to the collection of donor’s forward programming, historical data series of Country Programmable Aid  (CPA) are derived on the basis of the standard DAC-CRS statistics.

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Online databases

	Find out all about numbers, who spends what and where International Development Statistics online  (OECD.Stat and QWIDS) User's Guides DAC (Statistics)   CRS (Activity level data)
	Discover visually how much aid countries give and receive and how it is used OECD DAC data on aidflows.org

Statistical tables

Statistics on Resource Flows to Developing Countries  (38 individual Excel tables, 20 Dec. 2012)	Reference DAC Statistical Tables  (exchange rates, deflators, long term and preliminary ODA, 3 April 2013)
Non-DAC countries reporting their development assistance to the DAC

 See also data included in the sectoral analysis and thematic studies.

Publications

 

• Development Co-operation Report (2012 edition)

• Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients (2013 edition)

• All statistical publications available here.

See also list of documents available under Publications&Documents / Statistics, data and Indicators. 

Related Documents

OECD DAC Statistics, a brief introduction

Analyses of Aid

Methodological work

A Common Standard for Aid Information