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Information about National Statistics releases produced by the Department for International Development.
We publish National Statistics publications of provisional and final UK aid spending Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2017 and final UK aid spending in the spring and autumn respectively.
Previous editions can be found on our Statistics on International Development collection page.
We also publish UK Gross Public Expenditure tables as part of the Statistics on International Development publication. These can be found on our Statistics on International Development: UK Gross Public Expenditure (GPEX) collection page.
News
Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2017 was published at 9:30am on 5 April 2018. This is an annual publication that provides provisional statistics about the amount of Official Development Assistance (ODA) the UK has provided as a proportion of Gross National Income (GNI).
Upcoming statistical releases
DFID make every effort to release its national statistics as soon as possible and in an orderly manner in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
We publish official statistics on provisional and final UK aid spending normally in April and November in Statistics on International Development. We also release figures for Gross Public Expenditure on International Development after SID in January.
The timing of these releases is largely determined by the timetable for reporting UK ODA figures to the OECD, when the Office for National Statistics make the latest GNI estimates available, and the timing for processing and quality assuring the spending data from DFID, Other Government Departments and other ODA contributors.
Previous statistical releases
17 November 2016: Statistics on International Development 2016
1 April 2016: Provisional UK ODA as a proportion of Gross National Income (GNI) 2015
3 December 2015: Statistics on International Development 2015
2 April 2015: Provisional UK Official Development Assistance as a proportion of Gross National Income 2014
Data, methods and quality
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Gift Aid
Developments, improvements and user engagement
Developments
DFID conducted a short quality review of its National Statistics in 2013. The details of the review are contained in and an update of actions from the review are contained in December 2015: .
Improvements
Over summer 2018 we will be carrying out 3 methodological reviews of the ODA estimate on Gift Aid costs, the in-donor refugee costs and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s frontline delivery activity administrative costs. Further details of these reviews can be found in our terms of reference documents below:
User engagement
DFID engages with users of our National Statistics on an ongoing basis to explore issues of interest to specialist users and gain valuable feedback used to improve our National Statistics publications. We engage through public consultations on the statistics and we also have a statistics user group for receiving your ideas, feedback and comments.
- February 2015: The consultation on the reporting of Official Development Assistance from Development Finance Institutions closed on 5 February 2015. DFID’s consultation response is available on the GOV.UK Consultations page
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September 2014:
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June 2014: Seminar at Royal Statistical Society on ‘Understanding aid statistics’ – and
- January 2013:
Archived statistics
You can find statistics published since May 2009 on GOV.UK. Our archived statistics are available from the National Archives
Archived news Old news items are available here.