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Mrs. Clwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in rank order the donor nations of the United Nations showing the proportion of gross national product donated to overseas aid for the most recent year available, and the cash figures in sterling.
Mrs. Chalker
The latest information is as follows:
| Official development assistance by United Nations member countries in 1990 in oda/GNP percentage order | ||
| Country | Amount £ million | Per cent. of GNP 1990 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,079 | 3·89 |
| Norway | 678 | 1·17 |
| Netherlands | 1,459 | 0·94 |
| Denmark | 659 | 0·.93 |
| Sweden | 1,133 | 0·90 |
| France | 5,281 | 0·.79 |
| Finland | 476 | 0·64 |
| Libya | 272 | 20·52 |
| Belgium | 501 | 0·45 |
| Canada | 1,391 | 0·44 |
| Germany | 3,558 | 0·42 |
| Australia | 538 | 0·34 |
| Italy | 1,911 | 0·32 |
| Japan | 5,106 | 0·31 |
| Luxembourg | 14 | 0·28 |
| United Kingdom | 1,485 | 0·27 |
| Austria | 222 | 0·25 |
| Portugal | 79 | 0·25 |
| New Zealand | 52 | 0·22 |
| United States | 6,399 | 0·21 |
| Ireland | 32 | 0·16 |
| Spain | 450 | 10·16 |
| Venezuela | 23 | 0·09 |
| Qatar | 22 | 20·08 |
| Greece | 121 | 20·07 |
| Nigeria | 28 | 20·05 |
| China | 1101 | 10·05 |
| Algeria | 127 | 20·02 |
| Iceland | 21 | 20·02 |
| Kuwait | 938 | n/a |
| UAE | 500 | n/a |
| India | 162 | n/a |
| USSR | 1,126 | n/a |
| Israel | 210 | n/a |
| Yugoslavia | 23 | n/a |
| Other Central and Eastern Europe | 184 | n/a |
| 1 Estimate by OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Secretariat whole or in part. | ||
| 2 1988 figures given, being the latest year for which data is available. | ||
| n/a—GNP figures not available. | ||
| Other non United Nations donors | £ million | oda/GNP |
| Switzerland | 422 | 0·31 |
| Korea (Rep.) | 43 | 0·03 |
| Taiwan | 34 | 0·04 |