lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper) (06/15/84)
While paging through my copy of `The World Almanac and Book of Facts',
1984, I encountered a table of U. S. aid to other nations, parts of
which I have summarized below. I was rather surprised at how
selective our non-military aid is.
I have listed the top countries receiving aid from the U. S. in 1982.
These amounts "exclude the military supplies and services furnished
under the Foreign Assistance Act and direct Defense Department
appropriations". The original table consisted of 3 columns in addition
to the total (Amount of Aid, below), labeled "Net Grants", "Net Credits",
and "Net Other". "Grants are largely outright gifts for which no payment is
expected or which at most involve an obligation on the part of the
receiver to extend aid to the U. S. or other countries to achieve a common
objective.... Other assistance ["Net Other", I presume - lat] represents
the transfer of U. S. farm products in exchange for foreign currencies,
less the government's disbursements of the currencies as grants, credits,
or for purchases." "Net Credits" were unfortunately not defined, and might
be loans (although if they are I don't know why they weren't just labeled
as such).
Total aid for 1982: $10,832,000,000
Amount Country % of Cumulative
of Aid Total
(millions)
2133 Egypt 19.7% 19.7%
1730 Israel 16.0% 35.7%
1084 Mexico 10.0% 45.7%
657 Turkey 6.1% 51.7%
339 S. Korea 3.1% 54.9%
236 Sudan 2.2% 57.0%
202 Bangladesh 1.9% 58.9%
196 El Salvador 1.8% 60.7%
157 Pacific Territories 1.4% 62.2%
155 Pakistan 1.4% 63.6%
150 Jordan 1.4% 65.0%
116 Tunisia 1.1% 66.1%
106 Jamaica 1.0% 67.0%
91 Canada 0.8% 67.9%
86 India 0.8% 68.7%
85 Zaire 0.8% 69.5%
84 Honduras 0.8% 70.2%
73 Dominican Rep. 0.7% 70.9%
66 Liberia 0.6% 71.5%
61 Morocco 0.6% 72.1%
54 Somalia 0.5% 72.6%
49 Sri Lanka 0.5% 73.0%
46 Costa Rica 0.4% 73.4%
44 Thailand 0.4% 73.9%
44 Haiti 0.4% 74.3%
42 Kenya 0.4% 74.6%
For a bit more perspective, here are a few interesting numbers:
Net aid to all of Africa, excluding Egypt 1104
Net aid to Central & South America, except Mexico 604
Net aid to Asia & the Pacific, including Pakistan, 1075
India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka
The top three each did better than any of these continents.
I hope to make it to the university library and dig up some
references that are closer to (or even the actual) source,
to get a better notion of how these numbers were derived.
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