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The Countries Pledging the Most Humanitarian Aid

The world is facing a number of significant humanitarian crises in 2023, with war, food insecurity and forced displacement, among others, causing great hardship around the globe.

As part of United Nations coordinated humanitarian aid plans, around $20 billion has been contributed by governments in 2023 so far. As this infographic shows, the United States has delivered almost half of this aid, at $9.3 billion. Ukraine received the largest share of this funding (8.6 percent), followed by Somalia (8.3 percent) and Ethiopia (7.6 percent). Food security was by far the sector receiving the most U.S. humanitarian aid (46.5 percent).

Despite the $20 billion in aid provided globally this year, that figure only represents 35 percent of what the UN assesses to be the required funding for the crises its aid plans have set out to cover.

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This chart shows the countries contributing the most to United Nations coordinated humanitarian aid plans in 2023.

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Leading countries of U.S. foreign aid obligations through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Largest recipients of humanitarian aid worldwide as of 2025, by country/plan (in million U.S. dollars)
Largest donors of humanitarian aid worldwide in 2025 (in million U.S. dollars), by country
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20 largest recipients of official development assistance from DAC members for humanitarian purposes in 2023 (in million U.S. dollars)
U.S. foreign aid obligations through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2023, by region (in billion U.S. dollars)
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Amount of contributions to the UNHCR in 2023, by donor country and type of funding (in million U.S. dollars)

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