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Data | European Union Open Data Portal. Why Open Data portals? - Digital Agenda for Europe. Welcome - PublicData.eu. Official EU Data Catalogues - Groups - datacatalogs.org. EU Open Data Portal Now In Public Beta. Statistics at DFID - Department for International Development. We produce 2 National Statistics publications: Provisional UK ODA as a proportion of Gross National Income (GNI) Statistics on International Development News Our annual publication ‘Provisional UK Official Development Assistance as a proportion of Gross National Income’ was released on 2 April 2014. This release provides provisional statistics about the amount of Official Development Assistance (ODA) the UK has provided as a proportion of Gross National Income (GNI) in 2013.

A final estimate of ODA:GNI with more detailed breakdowns of spend will be published in October 2014 in ‘Statistics on International Development’. There have been a number of improvements to the layout of the publication in response to feedback from the UK Statistics Authority’s Good Practice team. Provisional UK ODA as a proportion of gross national income (GNI) The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) collects data on donor countries aid flows to developing countries and multilateral organisations. UK aid money: the key datasets you need to know | Claire Provost | Global development. Britain's aid mapped. Click image to see it full-size The UK prime minister reaffirmed on Tuesday Britain's pledge to spend 0.7% of gross-national income on aid by 2013. David Cameron's statement, at the UN general assembly in New York, comes despite growing calls from members of his own party to rein in Britain's aid spending.

Over the last two weeks, conservative British newspapers, including the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Mail, have attacked the Department for International Development (DfID) for spending millions of British aid money on a group of highly profitable consultancy firms. The drama has resurrected a long-standing question, highlighted last year over UK aid to India, about whether donors should spend money on middle-income countries. Here are five key datasets to help understand the debates: How big is the UK aid budget?

Aid as % of GNI (2011) Aid spending as % of GNI in 2011. What does this mean for the UK taxpayer? • Get the data Which countries get UK aid? • Get the data.