In 2023, Official Official Development Assistance (ODA) and other official and private flows from the Federal Republic of Germany to developing countries amounted to 62.5 billion euros - before revision of the Deutsche Bundesbank (previous year: 49.1 billion euros - after revision of the Deutsche Bundesbank).
In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in 2015 Germany committed to increasing its ODA ratio to 0.70% by 2030. In reference year 2023, Germany exceeded this target for the fourth time in a row, with the ODA ratio reaching 0.82% (previous year: 0.85%).
The grant equivalent system has been the standard for measuring ODA since 2018. While grants to developing countries are fully counted, only the grant element of loans (the “grant equivalent”) is now recorded as ODA.
In absolute terms, ODA flows amounted to 35.1 billion euros in reference year 2023 (previous year: 33.9 billion euros), with bilateral development assistance accounting for 25.2 billion euros and multilateral development assistance for 9.9 billion euros.
The largest share of total ODA (13.0 billion euros, or 37.2%) came from the budget of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Federal Foreign Office provided 4.8 billion euros (13.8%). The Länder funded a total of 2.04 billion euros (5.8%) of ODA in 2023, of which 1.98 billion euros went towards tuition costs for students from developing countries.
In 2023, ODA-eligible in-donor costs for refugees from developing countries amounted to 6.7 billion euros, which equates to a share of 19.2% of total ODA.
Within the scope of private development assistance, non-governmental organisations in Germany - for example Brot für die Welt (EWDE e. V. ) or Ärzte ohne Grenzen e. V. - spent 1.5 billion euros in 2023, financed by own resources and donations.
The total of private direct investments in developing countries amounted to 18.4 billion euros before revision of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
The amounts and percentages indicated above are rounded values. Further information and tables are available on the website of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.