Which countries would be worst hit by the US aid freeze?

The United States is the largest provider of official development assistance in the world. In 2023, it gave $64.7 billion in official development assistance, or ODA, nearly double Germany’s contribution of $37.9 billion.

However, a recent order from United States President Donald Trump to stop work at USAID has put much of that funding at risk.

Devex used final ODA data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, as a benchmark to show how much potential funding will be lost from the stop-work order and which countries could be affected the most.

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