Fiscal
UK foreign aid spend, year by year
Total UK official development assistance in cash pounds, and as a share of national income, for every year on the public record. These are the UK government’s own returns as published — nothing here is deflated, spliced or estimated.
Aid spend
£13.04bn
2025 · grant equivalent basis
Latest published year
2025
Grant equivalent basis, as published
Published years
66
1960 to 2025
The measurement basis changed in 2018: from that year the headline is the grant-equivalent measure the OECD DAC now uses, and earlier years are published as net disbursements. Both are the publisher’s own figures for the year concerned and are shown as such in the table — they are not spliced into a single adjusted series here. The most recent year is provisional until the final release later in the year.
Year by year
| Year | Aid spend | Share of national income | Published basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | £13.04bn | 0.43% | Grant equivalent |
| 2024 | £14.08bn | 0.50% | Grant equivalent |
| 2023 | £15.34bn | 0.58% | Grant equivalent |
| 2022 | £12.79bn | 0.51% | Grant equivalent |
| 2021 | £11.42bn | 0.50% | Grant equivalent |
| 2020 | £14.48bn | 0.70% | Grant equivalent |
| 2019 | £15.18bn | 0.70% | Grant equivalent |
| 2018 | £14.54bn | 0.70% | Grant equivalent |
| 2017 | £14.05bn | 0.70% | Net disbursements |
| 2016 | £13.38bn | 0.70% | Net disbursements |
| 2015 | £12.14bn | 0.70% | Net disbursements |
| 2014 | £11.7bn | 0.70% | Net disbursements |
| 2013 | £11.43bn | 0.70% | Net disbursements |
| 2012 | £8.77bn | 0.56% | Net disbursements |
| 2011 | £8.63bn | 0.56% | Net disbursements |
| 2010 | £8.45bn | 0.57% | Net disbursements |
| 2009 | £7.22bn | 0.51% | Net disbursements |
| 2008 | £6.36bn | 0.43% | Net disbursements |
| 2007 | £4.92bn | 0.36% | Net disbursements |
| 2006 | £6.77bn | 0.51% | Net disbursements |
| 2005 | £5.93bn | 0.47% | Net disbursements |
| 2004 | £4.31bn | 0.36% | Net disbursements |
| 2003 | £3.83bn | 0.34% | Net disbursements |
| 2002 | £3.29bn | 0.31% | Net disbursements |
| 2001 | £3.17bn | 0.32% | Net disbursements |
| 2000 | £2.97bn | 0.32% | Net disbursements |
| 1999 | £2.12bn | 0.24% | Net disbursements |
| 1998 | £2.33bn | 0.27% | Net disbursements |
| 1997 | £2.1bn | 0.26% | Net disbursements |
| 1996 | £2.05bn | 0.27% | Net disbursements |
| 1995 | £2.03bn | 0.29% | Net disbursements |
| 1994 | £2.09bn | 0.31% | Net disbursements |
| 1993 | £1.94bn | 0.31% | Net disbursements |
| 1992 | £1.85bn | 0.31% | Net disbursements |
| 1991 | £1.81bn | 0.32% | Net disbursements |
| 1990 | £1.49bn | 0.27% | Net disbursements |
| 1989 | £1.58bn | 0.31% | Net disbursements |
| 1988 | £1.49bn | 0.32% | Net disbursements |
| 1987 | £1.14bn | 0.28% | Net disbursements |
| 1986 | £1.19bn | 0.31% | Net disbursements |
| 1985 | £1.19bn | 0.33% | Net disbursements |
| 1984 | £1.07bn | 0.33% | Net disbursements |
| 1983 | £1.06bn | 0.35% | Net disbursements |
| 1982 | £1.03bn | 0.37% | Net disbursements |
| 1981 | £1.09bn | 0.43% | Net disbursements |
| 1980 | £0.8bn | 0.35% | Net disbursements |
| 1979 | £1.02bn | 0.51% | Net disbursements |
| 1978 | £0.76bn | 0.46% | Net disbursements |
| 1977 | £0.64bn | 0.44% | Net disbursements |
| 1976 | £0.49bn | 0.39% | Net disbursements |
| 1975 | £0.41bn | 0.38% | Net disbursements |
| 1974 | £0.34bn | 0.40% | Net disbursements |
| 1973 | £0.26bn | 0.36% | Net disbursements |
| 1972 | £0.27bn | 0.42% | Net disbursements |
| 1971 | £0.25bn | 0.44% | Net disbursements |
| 1970 | £0.2bn | 0.39% | Net disbursements |
| 1969 | £0.2bn | 0.43% | Net disbursements |
| 1968 | £0.17bn | 0.40% | Net disbursements |
| 1967 | £0.18bn | 0.44% | Net disbursements |
| 1966 | £0.17bn | 0.45% | Net disbursements |
| 1965 | £0.17bn | 0.47% | Net disbursements |
| 1964 | £0.18bn | 0.53% | Net disbursements |
| 1963 | £0.15bn | 0.48% | Net disbursements |
| 1962 | £0.15bn | 0.52% | Net disbursements |
| 1961 | £0.16bn | 0.59% | Net disbursements |
| 1960 | £0.14bn | 0.56% | Net disbursements |