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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I looked it up. US AID's budget is bigger than Malta's GDP, and similar to Bosnia's GDP.[/quote]
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Thank you for playing the statistics game "number versus percentage"

Yes USAIDs budget in terms of a number is big, but in terms of percent of the total US budget, it is small.  US foreign aid is typically 1-2% of the federal budget.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/breakdown-foreign-aid-obligations

The US is actually among the least generous donors globally as a percentage of GDP, even though that means because we are a wealthy country we give a lot in terms of absolute number.

" The U.S. is both generous and penurious—it provides [b]more official government assistance than any other country, but considerably less as a portion of our national income.[/b] There is a broad international commitment (to which the U.S. has never pledged) that wealthy countries should annually provide 0.7% of GDP to assist developing countries. For 2023, five countries—Norway, Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark—met or exceeded that benchmark. The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.3%, with the U.S. ranking at the bottom."

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-us-foreign-assistance/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20is%20both%20generous,that%20year%20was%20$47%20billion.[/quote]

These statistics are exceedingly misleading because they don’t consider things like U.S. security assistance.[/quote]

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