What are we doing to help tackle world poverty? www.irishaid.gov.ie What are we doing to help tackle world poverty?

Winkel-Tripel Map Irish Aid This map is a Winkel-Tripel projection. Adopted as a standard by the National Geographic Society in 1998, Irish Aid is the 's official the Society considers it is a more accurate map of the programme of assistance to the world’s poorest world that often used alternatives e.g. it shows more countries. Irish Aid is a division within the precisely the size of relative to Europe. Department of Foreign Affairs.

The reduction of poverty is the overarching objective of Irish Aid and to this end we support development programmes in over 90 countries RUSSIAN FEDERATION throughout the world, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

In addition to our funding of Irish and international Non Governmental organisations and UN agencies throughout the world, Ireland has a special relationship with nine partner countries. We provide IRELAND BELARUS substantial long-term funding to the governments and government-run projects in these countries UKRAINE helping them in their aim to achieve the Millennium MONGOLIA Development Goals by 2015. MOLDOVA BOSNIA & HERZ. ROMANIA Ireland's recent economic success means that we NORTH KOREA SERBIA can now devote much greater resources to helping BULGARIA KYRGYZ GEORGIA REPUBLIC some of the world's poorest countries to develop. FYR MACEDONIA ALBANIA ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN In 1996 we spent €142 million on official DPR KOREA development assistance (ODA). In 2006, the total CHINA will be €734 million.

These increases are set to continue. The Government LEBANON AFGHANISTAN IRAN is committed to reaching the UN target of spending 0.7% of GNP on official development assistance in MOROCCO JORDAN PAKISTAN PALESTINE 2012. Assuming current levels of GNP growth, NEPAL spending on development in that year will be of the BHUTAN € order of 1.5 billion, making Ireland one of the most MEXICO EGYPT generous donor countries in the world. BANGLADESH MYANMAR (BURMA) LAOS

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Non aid recipient countries World Poverty: The ' Human Developments Index Map for 2004

AID: Graph of Irish Government aid expenditure 1996 – 2012 � m Development: Ireland and Irish Aid Programme Countries - A Comparative Snapshot 1600 1500 1400 Countries UNDP Population GDP $ Billions Life Expectancy Number of % of people in % HIV+ HDI Rank (2005 est.) (2005 est.) from birth doctors per primary, secondary Prevalence

1200 1200 100,000 or third level Adults people education 1000 Ireland 8th 4 million 137 78 237 93 0.1 800 734 Ethiopia 170th 73 million 60 48 3 36 4.4 600 Lesotho 149th 1.8 million 6.1 36 5 66 28.9 545 475

445 Mozambique 168th 19.5 million 25.5 42 2 43 12.2 422 KEY 400 319 Position in the Human 164th 36.7 million 26.6 46 2 41 8.8

254 Development Index 230 Uganda 144th 27 million 46 47 5 74 4.1

200 177 157 166th 11 million 10.3 38 7 48 16.5 142 Low Malawi 165th 12.3 million 1.7 39.7 1 72 17.7 0 Medium Timor-Leste 140th 1 million 0.37 (2004) 56 No Info. 75 No Info. Vietnam 108th 84.5 million 253 70 53 64 0.4 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 High 1996 – 2012 Note: HDI Rank is the Human Development Index score that illustrates the relative development of different countries. No data eg. Ireland is the 8th most developed country in the world out of 177. Projected expenditure Sources: UNDP Human Development Report 2005, (CIA World Factbook – GDP and Population estimates)