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US Foreign Aid Compared to Extreme Poverty
  • Roughly 80% of US aid goes to countries with 10-15% of people in extreme poverty (at best)
  • 1/3 of all US Foreign Aid goes to Israel and Egypt (2/3 of that is military aid)
  • US is LAST of top 21 countries in terms of aid as percent of GDP

US Foreign Aid Breakdown - FY2001
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CategoryDollars
Export Import Bank$727,323,000
Trade and Dev Agency$50,024,000
Child Survival and Health$1,433,500,000
Dev Assistance$1,178,000,000
Int'l Disaster Assistance$235,500,000
Agency for International Dev$549,000,000
Economic Support Fund$2,199,000,000
Israel$720,000,000
Egypt$655,000,000
Jordan$150,000,000
Indonesia$50,000,000
Cyprus$15,000,000
Lebanon$35,000,000
East Timor$25,000,000
Ireland$25,000,000
East European Democracy$621,000,000
Independent States (USSR)$784,000,000
Ukraine$154,000,000
Armenia$90,000,000
Georgia$90,000,000
Peace Corp.$275,000,000
Narcotics$217,000,000
Andean Counterdrug$625,000,000
Refugees$705,000,000
disarmament/anti-terrorism$313,500,000
Debt restructuring$229,000,000
military training$70,000,000
Foreign Military financing$3,650,000,000
Israel$2,040,000,000
Egypt$1,300,000,000
Jordan$75,000,000
Tunisia$8,500,000
Thailand$3,300,000
Armenia$4,000,000
Global Environment Facility$100,500,000
Int'l Dev Ass.$792,400,000
Asian Dev Fund$98,017,050
African Dev Fund$100,000,000
European Bank Recons. Dev$35,800,000
Int'l Orgs$208,500,000
Total$15,222,064,050

  

US Foreign Aid by Region - FY2001
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Region%
Middle East54.10%
E. Europe17.70%
Africa13.30%
Latin America7.40%
South/SE Asia7.00%


Extreme Poverty
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Living on less than $1/day
Region$k%
East Asia & Pacific27823.66%
Europe & Central Asia242.04%
Latin America & Caribbean786.64%
Middle East & North Africa60.47%
South Asia52244.43%
Sub-Saharan Africa29124.77%
Total1175 
 
Living on less than $2/day
Region$k%
East Asia & Pacific89231.85%
Europe & Central Asia2609.29%
Latin America & Caribbean933.32%
Middle East & North Africa622.23%
South Asia109639.13%
Sub-Saharan Africa47516.95%
Total2801