This interactive can be used to understand how much funding the U.S. provides to global health programs in other countries. For example,
U.S. Global Health Funding Tracker: An Overview
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) provides a extensive tracker of U.S. funding for global health, covering approximately 85% of all such funding. This tracker focuses on funding channeled through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and does not include funding from agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or Department of Defense (DoD) due to data limitations at the country level. It also excludes funding directed to “regional” or “worldwide” programs, though broader data, including these, are available through the KFF US Global Health Budget Tracker.
The tracker presents data in three key transaction types:
* Appropriated: Funding amounts authorized by Congressional appropriations for a fiscal year, which can be obligated and disbursed over multiple years.
* Obligations: Binding agreements committing funds for disbursement, either promptly or in the future.
* Disbursements: Actual payments (outlays) of funds to recipients in a given year.
the data within the tracker are regularly updated as new facts becomes available. Users can download queried data directly from the interactive tool and access the full dataset here. questions and requests for further analysis can be directed to globalhealthbudget@kff.org.
Sources:
The KFF analysis is based on data from the U.S. Foreign Assistance Dashboard, U.S.State Department regional classifications, and World Bank income classifications.
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