Only Sweden and four other countries have exceeded the UN goal of an ODA volume amounting to 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI).
According to a press release from the Swedish government, this was shown in the preliminary statistics from the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
"Sweden comfortably exceeds the goal of an ODA volume amounting to 0.7 per cent of GNI and fulfils the commitments made at the 2002 Monterrey Conference," says Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson.
The figures for preliminary ODA volume in per cent of GNI are as follows: Norway - 0.95 per cent, Sweden - 0.93 per cent, Luxembourg - 0.90 per cent, Denmark - 0.81 per cent and the Netherlands - 0.81 per cent. The average level of ODA in DAC member countries is 0.45 per cent of GNI.
"It is worrying that total aid flows from DAC member countries have decreased. Even if ODA volumes to sub-Saharan Africa have increased slightly compared with last year, doubling aid to Africa in accordance with the commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 remains a great challenge," Ms Carlsson continues. "It will require major efforts for us to jointly achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015."
Sweden has been one of the countries that has fultilled its promises in providing development assistance to the poor countries in the world every year.
By Xuefei Chen People's Daily Online correspondent in Stockholm
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