Development assistance for health disbursements by channel and recipient country (Global), 1990-2009

Development assistance for health spending increases through 2009

Watch as the funding patterns for development assistance for health (DAH) worldwide evolve between 1990 and 2009. You can see how country governments have increased, or decreased, their DAH over the past two decades. You also can see how global priorities have changed over time. Data are presented as bubbles, bars, or lines.

You can change the channels you are viewing by clicking the axis label on the left side of the chart, and you can change the order in which results are displayed by clicking the axis label underneath the chart. Choose the same channel on both axes.

For more ideas how to explore go to the How to Explore tab.

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You can change the channels you are viewing by clicking the axis label on the left side of the chart, and you can change the order in which results are displayed by clicking the axis label underneath the chart. Choosing “Total DAH 2009 US$ (Millions)” on both axes will give you spending by all channels in all countries to which DAH could be traced, arranged in order of the countries receiving the largest amount of DAH.
On the right, select specific countries that interest you.
Choose either a bar, line, or bubble chart in the top right corner.
For the bar and bubble charts, hit play and watch changes over time.
Once you've selected specific countries that interest you, click the tool symbol in the bottom right corner and try lowering the opacity of the nonselected countries to isolate countries of interest.

See the change in global health priorities over the years. Select the bar chart option and choose “Total DAH 2009 US$ (Millions)” on the left axis label and underneath the chart. To see which bars represent which countries, click on different bars, or choose countries in the list on the right. Hit the play button at the bottom left, and watch as India remains the highest recipient of DAH through the years until 2009, when Nigeria surpasses India in total DAH received.
Watch the United States make an enormous commitment to development assistance for health in the middle of the past decade. Select “USA” on the left axis label and on the axis label underneath the chart. Now hit play. You will see how spending on specific countries stayed below $100 million for most of the first 14 years. By 2009, overall funding from the US had increased greatly and included 10 countries receiving more than $100 million each. You can do the same analysis for all development assistance channels. Try it with “EC,” the European Commission, or “BMGF,” the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Total DAH 2009 US$ (Millions): Total development assistance for health in millions of 2009 US dollars

ADB: Asian Development Bank

AUS: Australia

AUT: Austria

AfDB: African Development Bank

BEL: Belgium

BMGF: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CAN: Canada

CHE: Switzerland

DEU: Germany

DNK: Denmark

EC: European Commission

ESP: Spain

FIN: Finland

FRA: France

GAVI: GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation)

GBR: United Kingdom

GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

GRC: Greece

IDB: Inter-American Development Bank

IRL: Ireland

ITA: Italy

JPN: Japan

KOR: Korea

LUX: Luxembourg

NLD: The Netherlands

NOR: Norway

NZL: New Zealand

PRT: Portugal

SWE: Sweden

USA: United States

WB_IBRD: World Bank – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

WB_IDA: World Bank – International Development Association

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