Changes to Luxembourg’s official development assistance in 2021

ODA data are pub­lished by the OECD twice a year, in spring (pre­lim­i­nary report) and autumn (final report). The pre­lim­i­nary report pro­vides an overview of ODA, exclud­ing infor­ma­tion on sec­tors of inter­ven­tion and geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion. The final report presents the final data and includes a detailed break­down by sec­tor and by country. 

In 2021, Lux­em­bourg ODA amount­ed to EUR 456.10 mil­lion (an increase of 14.9% com­pared to 2020) and rep­re­sents 0.99% of gross nation­al income (GNI). Lux­em­bourg is there­fore still one of the small num­ber of OECD mem­bers – along­side Nor­way (0.93%), Swe­den (0.92%), Ger­many (0.74%) and Den­mark (0.70%) – to have main­tained its ODA at 0.7% of GNI or above. In absolute terms, the US remains the most gen­er­ous donor, fol­lowed by Ger­many, Japan, the Unit­ed King­dom and France.

At the inter­na­tion­al lev­el, offi­cial devel­op­ment assis­tance reached USD 178.9 bil­lion in 2021, an increase of 4.4% in real terms com­pared to 2020. This rep­re­sents 0.33% of the com­bined GNI of the mem­bers of the OECD’s Devel­op­ment Assis­tance Com­mit­tee and is the high­est lev­el ever achieved. The increase in glob­al offi­cial assis­tance is in the main due to the efforts made by some coun­tries and insti­tu­tions to respond to the COVID-19 health cri­sis, par­tic­u­lar­ly by donat­ing vac­cines to devel­op­ing countries.