§ Mrs. CurrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in rank order the donor nations of the United Nations showing the proportion of GDP donated, for the most recent year available, and the amounts in sterling.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe latest information is as follows; GDP figures are not available.
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Official development assistance by United Nations member countries in 1988 in ODA/GNP percentage order Country Per cent of GNP 1988 Amount £ million Saudi Arabia 2.64 1,150 Norway 1.04 553 Netherlands 0.98 1,252 Denmark 0.89 518 Sweden 0.86 861 France 0.72 3,854 Finland 0.59 341 Libya 0.52 72 Canada 0.50 1,318
Country Per cent of GNP 1988 Amount £ million Australia 0.46 618 Belgium 0.41 337 Kuwait 0.40 61 Germany 0.39 2,656 Italy 0.39 1,793 Japan 0.32 5,128 United Kingdom 0.32 1,489 Luxembourg 0.29 10 New Zealand 0.27 58 Austria 0.24 169 United States 0.21 5,693 Ireland 0.20 32 Portugal 0.20 147 Qatar 0.08 2 Venezuela 0.08 31 Spain 0.07 135 Greece 0.07 121 UAE 0.07 10 Nigeria 0.05 8 China 0.03 72 India 0.03 46 Algeria 0.02 17 Iceland 0.02 1 USSR 2— 2,361 Israel 2— 10 Yugoslavia 2— 3 Other Central and Eastern Europe 2— 292 Source: OECD.
1Estimate by DAC Secretariat whole or in part.
2GNP figures not available.