And we talked so much as a family unit, the extended family I mean, about the worldwide condition, the human condition
You will be happy to know that the Scandinavian countries are the largest donors of foreign aid per unit of GNP.
How do U.S. aid levels compare with those of other countries?
The U.S. foreign-aid budget as a percentage of gross national product (GNP) ranks last among the world’s wealthiest countries (at about 0.1 percent). In raw dollars, however, the United States is now the world’s top donor of economic aid, although for more than a decade it was second to Japan, which is far smaller and has been beset by economic woes. In 2001, the United States gave $10.9 billion, Japan $9.7 billion, Germany $4.9 billion, the United Kingdom $4.7 billion, and France $4.3 billion. As a percentage of GNP, however, the top donors were Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Sweden. The tiny Netherlands (pop. 16 million) gave $3.2 billion in 2001—almost a third of what America contributed.
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The Netherlands gave about 6 times more than the US per unit of GNP. |
