The United States gives a lot of money to the world. How do you think it's being spent?
Aid from the United States to foreign nations is funneled through nine government agencies. The charts below contain complete data sets from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. African Development Foundation, the Peace Corps, and the Inter-American Foundation.
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Only partial data are available from the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the U.S. departments of the Treasury, Agriculture, State, and Defense. Still, the data provide insight into who's likely to get the most foreign aid and what the money is going toward.
The charts below show how much money is being requested for foreign countries and for what. They are grouped by region. The box next to each bar indicates the largest area for which U.S. aid money is being sought, and shows the percentage that category comprises of the total requested U.S. assistance for that nation.
North America
Central & South America
Oceania
This article, by Simran Khosla, originally appeared at GlobalPost.
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