World Bank data on net official development assistance (ODA) disbursements to recipient countries and territories. The dataset tracks concessional loans and grants from DAC members, multilateral institutions, and non-DAC countries, measured in current U.S. dollars. It is compiled by the World Bank as part of its Sustainable Development Goals indicators.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in total ODA received per country over time using the 'value' and 'year' fields.
- Compare aid inflows between different recipient countries using the 'country' and 'value' columns.
- Model the relationship between ODA received and other development indicators by joining on country-year identifiers.
- Assess the grant element of aid by utilizing the underlying calculation that loans must have at least a 25% grant element.
Strengths
- Data is compiled from official agencies of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and multilateral institutions, ensuring authoritative sourcing.
- Financial flows are standardized to current U.S. dollars, enabling cross-country and temporal comparisons.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown, limiting assessment of dataset scale and completeness.
- The data may have geographic bias towards countries listed as ODA recipients, excluding analysis of non-recipient nations.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank, Sustainable Development Goals indicators.
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from disbursements reported by official agencies of DAC members, multilateral institutions, and non-DAC countries.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Countries and territories on the DAC list of ODA recipients.