The Progress of Nations Survey also examines the aid record of
industrialized countries and notes that in 1995, the latest year
for which figures are available, official development assistance (ODA)
declined to the lowest level since aid statistics were first collected,
in 1950. With average contributions at only 0.27 per cent of the GNP,
the US fell to the bottom of the list with a contribution of only 0.10 as
a percentage of the GNP.
The leading donor nations, measured by contributions as a percentage of
GNP, are Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden. In absolute terms,
Jampan gives the most in ODS. The contributions of almost every country
have declinded since 1992. (Sources: UNICEF; New York Time, USA
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The excerpt reprinted above was found in the September 1997 issue of Share
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