Table 4.
Trends in aid to health as percentage of total G7 ODA
| 1990/92 averagea | 1996/98 averagea | 1999b | 2000b | 2001b | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 3 | 3 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 4.3 |
| France | 3 | 4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 6.0 |
| Germany | 1 | 5 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
| Italy | 5 | 4 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 4.7 |
| Japan | 1 | 2 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.8 |
| UK | 9 | 10 | 6.8 | 9.6 | 5.9 |
| US | 5 | 17 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.7 |
| G7 average | 4.3 | 4.3 |
Source: OECD, 2001, Table 2 (1990/92 and 1996/98 data); OECD, 2002, Tables 14 and 19 (2000 data); OECD, 2003, Tables 13, 15 and 19 (2001 data).
Because of data limitations, includes only bilateral aid.
Includes both bilateral and multilateral aid (contributions made by donor countries to the European Commission, the World Bank and regional development banks). Published data on the sectoral distribution of individual countries’ multilateral aid contributions are not available. Instead, we attributed multilateral aid contributions to specific sectors based on the following calculation: country specific percentage of total aid contributed through each of the three multilateral agencies (Regional Development Banks, World Bank, European Commission)×the percentage of aid provided to the specific sector by each of the multilateral agencies. The sum of these calculations was then added to that country's sector-specific bilateral contribution. There may be small margins of error; the OECD report from which our data were drawn (OECD, 2002) itself cautions that figures for the European Commission are “approximate.” Total 2001 ODA contributions are based on the same calculations, using data from OECD (2003). An even greater note of caution is expressed for 1999 multilateral estimates. We applied the same formula as for 2000 and 2001, but the percentage of European Commission aid contributions by sector is not available for 1999. We therefore used the percentages for 2000 as a rough approximation, but calculated G7 averages only in years for which data are more reliable (2000, 2001).