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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm with those who argue that foreign countries should take care of their own people without looking to the U.S. to do it for them.  Countries which need aid typically have ineffective and inefficient economies, corrupt governments, and policies which fail to deter high birthrates which produce unsupportable populations.  Not incidentally, those are often the countries which are the source of much illegal immigration into the U.S. and away from their countries of birth.

As noted earlier, generous temporary disaster assistance is one thing, perpetual financial support to bypass a country's incompetence and its own obligations to its own people is quite another.  History shows that providing such external support never results in countries graduating to self-sufficiency, they just subsist indefinitely on charity provided by the U.S., paid for by U.S. taxpayers.  Even non-countries like Gaza have followed the same course of sustained poverty for decades despite seemingly endless foreign financial aid.  There is no foreseeable point in time where external aid won't be required because nothing is prompting the development of a functional civil society, same as has been the case in numerous sub-Saharan African and other nations.  [/quote]

You may be interested to know that the US is not even in the top 10 countries that give the most humanitarian aid to other countries as a percentage of their GNI.

The top 20 countries providing the most humanitarian aid as a percentage of their Gross National Income (GNI), which is closely related to GDP, are primarily based on Official Development Assistance (ODA) data from the OECD for 2023. ODA includes humanitarian and development aid, and the percentage of GNI reflects a country’s aid generosity relative to its economic size. Below is the list, focusing on aid as a share of GNI, as this metric highlights proportional contributions rather than absolute amounts, which favor larger economies like the United States.

1. **Luxembourg**: 1.05% of GNI
2. **Norway**: 1.02% of GNI
3. **Sweden**: 0.99% of GNI
4. **Denmark**: 0.71% of GNI
5. **Germany**: 0.79% of GNI
6. **France**: 0.61% of GNI
7. **United Kingdom**: 0.50% of GNI
8. **Belgium**: 0.45% of GNI
9. **Japan**: 0.44% of GNI
10. **Netherlands**: 0.37% of GNI
11. **Finland**: 0.36% of GNI
12. **Switzerland**: 0.35% of GNI
13. **Italy**: 0.30% of GNI
14. **Iceland**: 0.30% of GNI
15. **Australia**: 0.29% of GNI
16. **Austria**: 0.25% of GNI
17. **United States**: 0.23% of GNI
18. **Canada**: 0.22% of GNI
19. **Ireland**: 0.20% of GNI
20. **New Zealand**: 0.18% of GNI

### Notes:
- **Data Sources**: The figures are derived from OECD data on ODA for 2023, as reported in sources like Wikipedia and Our World in Data. Some percentages are cross-referenced with posts on X for 2023, though exact figures may vary slightly due to differences in reporting or inflation adjustments.[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_sovereign_state_donors)[](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/foreign-aid-given-per-capita)
- **Context**: Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark exceed the UN’s ODA target of 0.7% of GNI, reflecting strong commitment to global aid. The U.S., while the largest donor in absolute terms ($55.3 billion in 2022), ranks lower as a percentage of GNI due to its massive economy.[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors)
- **Non-DAC Donors**: Countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey also contribute significant aid, but consistent GNI percentage data for non-OECD members is less..

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