Official development assistance in 2019

In 2019, Luxembourg’s official development assistance (ODA) amounted to EUR 420.80 million, 1.04% of gross national income (GNI). Thus Luxembourg is still one of the small number of OECD members – alongside Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom – to have maintained its ODA at 0.7% of GNI or above.

In 2019, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs managed and implemented 81.59% of ODA, i.e. EUR 343.31 million (of which EUR 338.24 million was managed by the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs).

The table below (breakdown of gross ODA tab) gives the distribution by type of cooperation of all Luxembourg’s 2019 ODA expenditure, following the rules of the DAC.

The following table (ODA by sector tab) gives the breakdown by sector of all Luxembourg ODA expenditure in 2019.

Established by the amended law of 6 January 1996 on development cooperation and humanitarian action, the Development Cooperation Fund (DCF) is an instrument enabling the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to carry out development programmes and projects extending over several years.

As the graph below shows, Luxembourg’s official development assistance initially grew slowly but steadily.