How much aid for refugees, in the form of money, do countries around the world give?

Question

Countries: Switzerland, USA, Japan, Norway, Sweden, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Canada
Money: $238,587,830 $115,411,884 $50,430,208 $43,833,984 $42,164,140 $37,915,142 $19,211,899 $18,649,202 $18,541,124 $17,542,253
Please match up, or give any other researched info about this!

Answer 1

I don't know how much part of aid goes to refugees, so I'll give three tables: one for asylum seekers per capita per country (with acceptance rate), one for foreign aid per capita and one for foreign aid per GDP.

If you want to compare a country with a population of 5 million with one with a population of 300 million, you need to give the figures per capita (per person).

Likewise, if you want to compare the generosity of a poor country with that of a rich country, you have to look at the figures telling how much foreign aid was given per GDP (gross domestic product).

Figures quoted by the source are from OECD and CIA World Factbook.

1. ASYLUM SEEKERS PER CAPITA PER COUNTRY (N.B. - acceptance rates are from period 1990-1999!)
#1 Austria: 3.677 per capita (accepted: 13.1% )
#2 Norway: 3.222 per capita (accepted: 42.8% )
#3 Switzerland: 2.777 per capita (accepted: 38.5% )
#4 Sweden: 2.611 per capita (accepted: 49.7% )
#5 Ireland: 2.565 per capita (accepted: 17.9%)
#6 Belgium: 2.364 per capita
#7 Denmark: 2.283 per capita (accepted: 73.5%)
#8 Netherlands: 1.987 per capita
#9 Czech Republic: 1.758 per capita
#10 United Kingdom: 1.522 per capita (accepted: 43.4% )
#11 Slovakia: 1.51 per capita
#12 Luxembourg: 1.494 per capita
#13 Canada: 1.302 per capita (accepted: 61.8%)
#14 Germany: 1.072 per capita (accepted: 9.9%)
#15 Hungary: 0.959 per capita
#16 France: 0.78 per capita (accepted: 20%)
#17 Australia: 0.617 per capita (accepted: 13.1% )
#18 Greece: 0.516 per capita
#19 New Zealand: 0.421 per capita (accepted: 17.6% )
#20 Finland: 0.325 per capita (accepted: 50.8%)
#21 Bulgaria: 0.322 per capita
#22 United States: 0.292 per capita (accepted: 43.9% )
#23 Spain: 0.228 per capita
#24 Italy: 0.169 per capita
#25 Poland: 0.117 per capita
#26 Romania: 0.107 per capita
#27 Portugal: 0.019 per capita
#28 Japan: 0.003 per capita (accepted: 9.2% )


2. FOREIGN AID GIVEN PER CAPITA (=per person)Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
#1 Luxembourg: $496.59 per capita
#2 Denmark: $366.93 per capita
#3 Norway: $303.63 per capita
#4 Netherlands: $242.55 per capita
#5 Sweden: $188.54 per capita
#6 Ireland: $149.43 per capita
#7 Switzerland: $146.20 per capita
#8 United Kingdom: $130.34 per capita
#9 Belgium: $103.29 per capita
#10 France: $88.71 per capita
#11 Austria: $83.12 per capita
#12 Canada: $78.55 per capita
#13 Finland: $72.45 per capita
#14 Japan: $69.82 per capita
#15 Germany: $67.94 per capita
#16 Australia: $44.12 per capita
#17 Spain: $32.92 per capita
#18 Portugal: $25.55 per capita
#19 New Zealand: $24.46 per capita
#20 United States: $23.12 per capita
#21 Italy: $17.20 per capita
#22 Korea, South: $8.67 per capita
#23 Lesotho: $2.18 per capita


3. FOREIGN AID IN % OF GDP, top 23 countries:

#1 Denmark: $8.23 per $1,000 of GDP
#2 Luxembourg: $7.57 per $1,000 of GDP
#3 Netherlands: $6.93 per $1,000 of GDP
#4 Norway: $5.60 per $1,000 of GDP
#5 Sweden: $4.91 per $1,000 of GDP
#6 United Kingdom: $3.69 per $1,000 of GDP
#7 Ireland: $3.31 per $1,000 of GDP
#8 Lesotho: $3.20 per $1,000 of GDP
#9 Belgium: $3.06 per $1,000 of GDP
#10 Switzerland: $3.06 per $1,000 of GDP
#11 France: $2.70 per $1,000 of GDP
#12 Canada: $2.65 per $1,000 of GDP
#13 Austria: $2.35 per $1,000 of GDP
#14 Germany: $2.06 per $1,000 of GDP
#15 Finland: $2.03 per $1,000 of GDP
#16 Japan: $1.93 per $1,000 of GDP
#17 Portugal: $1.61 per $1,000 of GDP
#18 Australia: $1.42 per $1,000 of GDP
#19 Spain: $1.34 per $1,000 of GDP
#20 New Zealand: $1.00 per $1,000 of GDP
#21 Korea, South: $0.62 per $1,000 of GDP
#22 Italy: $0.60 per $1,000 of GDP
#23 United States: $0.59 per $1,000 of GDP

However, these figures don't give the whole truth. If foreign aid is tied up to conditions that are to the advantage to the donor country but not to the receiving country, it is low quality aid. And if it is given in the form of weapons to an ally, it is very disputable. There is an index at http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi where you can learn more about this, and click on each country to see how well it rates on a Commitment To Development Index (figures from 2006)

Answer 2

Countries: Switzerland, USA, Japan, Norway, Sweden, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Canada
Money: $238,587,830 $115,411,884 $50,430,208 $43,833,984 $42,164,140 $37,915,142 $19,211,899 $18,649,202 $18,541,124 $17,542,253
Thanks !

Answer 3

I heard El Salvador and Mexico give about $100,000,000...lol jk.

But your right those countries do give a lot of aid, but you have to understand that with the smaller countries' economy, its kind of hard to give aid to the countries in africa.