Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Urgent, Coordinated Response to Record Decline in Global Aid, per New OECD Data
The Rockefeller Foundation is issuing an urgent call for a global, coordinated response in light of preliminary official data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today confirming a 23% decline in official development assistance (ODA) from 2024 to 2025. As the largest single-year reduction in decades, the precipitous drop in ODA in 2025 surpasses the Barcelona Institute for Global Health’s (ISGlobal) modeling assumptions, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, that were published in The Lancet Global Health earlier this year. Projecting an initial ODA decline of 15.8% in 2025, with funding cuts continuing and worsening through the end of this decade, ISGlobal warned that at least 9.4 million additional people, including 2.5 million children under the age of five, could die by 2030 across 93 low- and middle-income countries.
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Source: The Rockefeller Foundation (link opens in a new window)
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