Humanitarian aid fell sharply in 2025, largely due to a drop in support from the United States, according to a recently published report from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Global Humanitarian Overview 2026 looks back at how much aid was delivered in the last year and projects forward to examine how much aid might be needed in the coming year.
The GHO shows that in 2025, just $20.5 billion of funding was received for humanitarian action, compared to $37 billion in 2024 and $43.3 billion in 2022.
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David Ainsworth@daveainsworth4
David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.
