In 2020, Germany’s official development assistance amounted to $28.4 billion, or 0.73% of its gross national income. This is up 13.7% in real terms from 2019, “making this the first year since 2016 that Germany has reached the 0.7% GNI-to-ODA target” set by the United Nations, according to Donor Tracker.
That makes Germany the world’s second-largest donor country, behind only the United States, which had $35.5 billion for ODA in 2020.
In this article, Devex examined Germany’s leading development agency, BMZ, and its two main implementing agencies, KfW and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, or GIZ, to look at where Germany spends its ODA and on what.