How much aid flows to each low- and middle-income country? And how is it decided? To what extent is aid to a country based on the relative level of poverty, inequality, or need?
In order to answer these questions, Devex looked into the data on official development assistance, or ODA, grants from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and population and gross national income per capita data from the World Bank.
The loose trend shows that lower-income countries do receive more aid, but it is clear that other factors are also at work. Some comparatively rich countries receive far more aid than those with lower incomes, and there are glaring disparities even among outwardly similar nations.