Table 1 Trend is foreign aid inflows by income and region (in $ billion).

From: Revisited the role of foreign aid in capital formation: experience of South Asian countries

Region/Country

1980

1990

2000

2005

2010

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

World

33.9

56.9

48.6

107

128.

135

151

161

146

158

164

166

167

South Asia

5.17

5.25

3.64

9.02

14.9

14.1

13.9

15.5

15.0

14.0

14.9

12.2

15.4

SSA

7.7

17.8

13.0

32.8

44.3

46.7

47.7

46.4

44.7

44.3

49.5

50.4

55.2

EAP

3.9

8.06

8.24

9.27

9.44

8.87

12.0

9.50

8.53

7.72

8.41

8.26

7.38

LAC

1.8

4.94

4.66

6.40

9.63

10.0

10.2

9.96

10.1

11.1

8.49

10.3

8.88

MENA

9.0

13.3

4.84

28.2

12.2

13.6

25.8

32.5

19.3

26.4

28.1

32.1

29.0

MICs

19

35.1

29.6

67.8

56.2

61.3

70.2

68.1

63.0

64.8

66.2

62.5

64.3

LMICs

13

24.3

17.6

32.1

39.1

43.4

53.0

49.2

45.0

43.0

45.1

42.1

47.0

LICs

6.6

10.7

6.78

18.3

33.1

33.0

35.0

35.6

36.2

40.5

45.0

49.9

49.8

India

2.1

1.40

1.38

1.88

2.83

1.68

2.46

2.99

3.17

2.68

3.20

2.46

2.61

Pakistan

1.1

0.91

0.55

1.48

2.93

2.02

2.19

3.62

3.76

2.96

2.36

1.39

2.17

Bangladesh

1.2

1.79

0.98

1.25

1.33

2.15

2.63

2.42

2.59

2.53

3.78

3.04

4.48

Sri Lanka

0.3

0.62

0.22

1.04

0.56

0.49

0.40

0.49

0.45

0.37

0.32

−0.2

0.20

Nepal

0.1

0.36

0.31

0.41

0.77

0.77

0.87

0.88

1.22

1.06

1.27

1.45

1.36

Maldives

0.0

0.02

0.02

0.07

0.09

0.06

0.02

0.02

0.02

0.02

0.05

0.13

0.07

  1. Source: World Development Indicator, World Bank.
  2. SSA Sub-Saharan Africa, EAP East Asia and Pacific, LAC Latin America and Caribbean, MENA Middle East & North Africa, MICs middle-income countries, LMICs lower-middle-income countries, LICs low-income countries.