World Development Indicators provides data on net bilateral aid flows from Development Assistance Committee donors to Finland. The dataset contains net disbursements of official development assistance and official aid, measured in current U.S. dollars. Data collection for official aid to certain advanced countries ended in 2004.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in net aid disbursements to Finland over time using the annual time-series values.
- Compare Finland's aid receipts against other DAC donor countries using the bilateral flow metric.
- Model the relationship between economic indicators and aid inflows using the financial flow data.
- Assess the impact of the 2005 DAC list restructuring by examining pre- and post-2004 official aid data.
Strengths
- Data sourced from the authoritative World Development Indicators and DAC.
- Includes both ODA and historical official aid flows for a specific donor country.
Limitations
- Data on official aid flows to Part II countries is stale, ending with 2004 records.
- Sample size and specific row count for Finland are unknown.
- Regional and world aggregates include unallocated aid, which may obscure country-specific analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators, Development Assistance Committee.
- Collection Method
- Compiled from reports of net disbursements (grants and concessional loans minus principal repayments) by DAC member donors.
- Time Range
- Annual data, with official aid series ending in 2004.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Finland as a recipient, with flows from all DAC donor countries and EU institutions.