§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what has been the average value of United Kingdom aid to each recipient country per head of population in each of the last four years.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe information requested is in the table.
The levels of our development assistance to individual countries are based on a number of factors, of which population is only one. The cash levels of our assistance are given in "British Aid Statistics 1987–88–1991–92", which is available in the Libraries of the House.
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1988 £ actual 1989 £ actual 1990 £ actual 1991–92 £ actual Congo 0.15 0.13 0.10 0.16 Cook Islands 4.55 — 0.20 n/a Costa Rica 0.57 2.18 1.80 3.62 Cyprus 1.09 1.01 1.66 0.71 Djibouti 0.34 0.20 0.16 0.30 Dominica 24.67 30.77 16.14 24.22 Dominican Republic 0.02 — — — Ecuador 0.15 0.12 0.54 0.12 Egypt 0.37 0.21 0.17 0.26 El Salvador 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.01 Equatorial Guinea 0.04 0.21 0.15 — Ethiopia 0.43 0.25 0.41 0.37 Falkland Islands 2,133.33 1,853.29 513.96 n/a Fiji 1.67 6.32 5.96 3.09 Gabon 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.06 Gambia 8.19 6.14 8.61 6.64 Ghana 2.42 3.58 1.38 3.01 Gibraltar 317.40 13.96 13.60 n/a Grenada 12.25 13.25 11.81 26.50 Guatemala — — 0.01 0.01 Guinea 0.10 0.07 0.08 0.17 Guinea-Bissau 0.06 0.04 0.04 0.03 Guyana 0.65 8.21 19.13 7.28 Haiti — — — 0.01 Honduras 0.26 0.14 0.17 0.29 Hong Kong 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.07 India 0.13 0.12 O.1l 0.16 Indonesia 0.10 0.12 0.13 0.19 Iran — — 0.01 0.05 Iraq2 — — — 1.08 Israel — — 0.01 — Ivory Coast 0.65 0.76 0.90 0.44 Jamaica 8.51 8.36 6.17 2.51 Jordan 1.09 1.31 2.58 0.99 Kenya 2.24 2.34 1.91 1.56 Kiribati 28.57 24.97 24.09 23.24 Laos 0.03 — 0.01 0.01 Lebanon 0.01 — 0.05 — Lesotho 3.01 3.59 3.37 3.64 Liberia 0.37 0.26 0.23 0.19 Madagascar 0.04 0.03 0.05 0.06 Malawi 6.09 5.29 4.52 2.72 Malaysia 0.61 0.51 1.21 0.89 Maldive Republic 4.44 2.95 3.79 2.98 Mali 0.15 0.14 0.12 0.16 Malta 0.27 0.47 0.34 0.79 Mauritania 0.10 0.08 0.03 0.15 Mauritius 6.12 11.67 4.70 2.86 Mexico 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.02 Mongolia n/a n/a n/a 0.01 Montserrat 190.48 337.02 354.64 n/a Morocco 0.03 0.02 0.43 0.08 Mozambique 2.09 1.50 1.66 1.15 Namibia 1.67 1.22 1.17 1.33 Nepal 0.62 0.96 0.82 0.87 Nicaragua 0.05 0.02 0.12 0.05 Niger 0.05 0.04 0.04 0.05 Nigeria 0.07 0.57 0.12 0.12 Oman 0.72 0.65 0.44 0.67 Pakistan 0.23 0.29 0.43 0.33 Panama 0.43 0.31 0.31 0.35 Papua New Guinea 4.19 3.01 2.36 1.30 Paraguay 0.13 0.09 0.12 0.11 Peru 0.07 0.05 0.06 0.07
1988 £actual 1989 £actual 1990 £actual 1991–92 £actual Philippines 0.02 0.20 0.18 0.12 Pitcairn Island 1,625.00 — — n/a Rwanda 0.05 0.05 0.07 0.03 Sao Tome and Principe 0.14 — — n/a Senegal 0.14 0.43 0.13 0.21 Seychelles 25.99 16.72 13.77 22.84 Sierra Leone 0.96 0.71 0.63 0.55 Singapore 0.05 0.14 0.11 0.09 Solomon Islands 17.72 18.44 16.88 16.72 Somalia 1.17 0.90 0.28 0.47 South Africa3 — — 0.18 — Sri Lanka 1 33 1.42 1.02 0.66 St. Helena and Dependencies 3,036.40 4,777.83 2,173.50 n/a St. Kitts-Nevis 44.57 16.52 22.77 25.93 St. Lucia 19.91 61.19 16.14 12.13 St. Vincent 7.76 8.95 11.72 8.58 Sudan 1.11 1.32 0.88 0.71 Surinam 0.03 0.01 — — Swaziland 7.09 8.29 6.49 4.43 Tanzania 1.40 1.54 0.91 1.32 Thailand 0.43 0.19 0.20 0.07 Togo 0.09 0.08 0.09 0.13 Tonga 2.84 3.68 2.30 2.40 Trinidad and Tobago 0.12 0.52 0.58 4.14 Tunisia 0.06 0.11 0.05 0.03 Turkey 0.05 0.07 — 0.30 Turks and Caicos Islands 604.72 748.51 702.02 n/a Tuvalu 628.95 39.17 55.36 n/a Uganda 1.83 1.75 1.43 1.55 Uruguay 0.01 — 0.02 0.05 Vanuatu 40.45 38.35 39.98 35.97 Venezuela — — — 0.01 Vietnam — — — 0.01 Western Samoa 0.30 0.25 0.98 0.49 Yemen (Republic of) 0.66 0.58 0.49 0.43 Yugoslavia — — — 0.01 Zaire 0.02 0.20 0.06 0.04 Zambia 2.32 2.63 3.13 4.24 Zimbabwe 2.68 2.31 2.16 4.86 1 Figures are only provided for those countries and dependencies for which population figures are available and aid per capita is greater than £0.005 in one or more years. "n/a" indicates that population figures are not available in that year. "—" indicates that aid per capita is less than £0.005 in that year. 2 Aid provided to these countries is for the purpose of humanitarian assistance only. 3 No aid to South Africa is channelled through the South African Government.