Sixty years of US aid to Pakistan: Get the data
As the
US announces it is to withhold military aid to Pakistan, find out how much
money America has given to the country since 1948
The Obama administration has announced it will withhold more than one-third of all military assistance
to Pakistan - an aid envelope worth some $800m (£498m). The
withheld aid includes funding for military equipment and reimbursements for
selected Pakistani security expenditures - including a payment of $300m for
counterinsurgency programmes.
US aid to Pakistan has a long political history and
this is not the first time money has been withheld. Here we've pulled out all
the figures for both US military aid and economic assistance (including
development assistance) to Pakistan between
1948 and 2010.
The dataset comes from Wren Elhai, at the Washington-based Center for Global
Development (CGD), who in May published a report along with Nancy
Birdsall and Molly Kinder analysing the long-term impact of US aid to Pakistan.
The numbers - which come from the US
Overseas Grants and Loans database and theCongressional
Research Service - have been adjusted for inflation and are
presented in terms of the value of the US$ in 2009.
Some highlights:
• US economic assistance to Pakistan peaked in 1962, at over $2.3bn
• in 2010, military assistance to Pakistan totalled $2.5bn -
including $1.2bn in coalition support funds
• US assistance to Pakistan reached its lowest level in the 1990s,
after President George H.W. Bush suspended aid flows over Pakistan's emerging
nuclear programme
• US military assistance dropped dramatically during and
immediately after the Indo-Pakistani wars of 1965 and 1971
• in the 1970s, President Carter suspended all aid to Pakistan
(except food aid) in response to Pakistan's decision to construct a uranium
enrichment facility
• although US assistance (both economic and military) to Pakistan
has fluctuated considerably over the last 60 years, it has risen steadily since
2001
Pakistan has historically been among the top
recipients of US aid - since 1948, the US has sent more
than £30bn in direct aid to the country. Nearly half of this has
been for military assistance. However, since Osama bin Laden was discovered and
killed in Abbottabad earlier this year, US president Barack Obama has come
under increasing pressure to justify US aid spending in the country.
Although military assistance is currently the only
form of US aid to Pakistan to be withheld, Congress has considered other - as
yet unsuccessful - bills to also block US economic assistance, and civilian aid
to Pakistan will no doubt be up for debate again next year, as the 2012 budget
battles get underway.
What can you do with the data?
Data summary
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Summary of US aid to Pakistan
1948-2010
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Year
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Economic Assistance, Total
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Economic Assistance (through USAID)
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Military Assistance, Total
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Coalition Support Funds
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1948
|
0.77
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1949
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1950
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
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1951
|
2.89
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1952
|
74.25
|
73.55
|
0
|
|
|
1953
|
748.29
|
286.23
|
0
|
|
|
1954
|
156.95
|
152.24
|
0
|
|
|
1955
|
733.15
|
477.18
|
266
|
|
|
1956
|
1065.67
|
700.89
|
1086.5
|
|
|
1957
|
1079.65
|
619.9
|
437.59
|
|
|
1958
|
968.22
|
589.59
|
533.13
|
|
|
1959
|
1367.93
|
985.25
|
366.81
|
|
|
1960
|
1689.84
|
1181.35
|
230.39
|
|
|
1961
|
989.53
|
780.04
|
260.47
|
|
|
1962
|
2334.65
|
1446.28
|
549.02
|
|
|
1963
|
2066.77
|
1063.68
|
292.31
|
|
|
1964
|
2222.66
|
1334.16
|
187.55
|
|
|
1965
|
1928.9
|
1041.58
|
77.38
|
|
|
1966
|
816.28
|
691.28
|
8.4
|
|
|
1967
|
1213.36
|
719.38
|
26.33
|
|
|
1968
|
1501.68
|
672.5
|
25.98
|
|
|
1969
|
541.76
|
504.31
|
0.5
|
|
|
1970
|
968.32
|
570.93
|
0.87
|
|
|
1971
|
474.25
|
31.21
|
0.73
|
|
|
1972
|
692.87
|
261.87
|
0.42
|
|
|
1973
|
715.35
|
387.63
|
1.24
|
|
|
1974
|
381.97
|
219.13
|
0.95
|
|
|
1975
|
614.34
|
326.02
|
0.92
|
|
|
1976
|
644.1
|
336.78
|
1.28
|
|
|
1977
|
319.16
|
209.4
|
0.92
|
|
|
1978
|
214.92
|
55.49
|
1.52
|
|
|
1979
|
128.81
|
23.31
|
1.2
|
|
|
1980
|
137.53
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1981
|
164.16
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1982
|
400.6
|
200.07
|
1.2
|
|
|
1983
|
534.18
|
383.29
|
499.77
|
|
|
1984
|
568.05
|
415.84
|
555.9
|
|
|
1985
|
607.26
|
447.53
|
583.53
|
|
|
1986
|
623.56
|
460.91
|
545.82
|
|
|
1987
|
599.07
|
469.53
|
534.54
|
|
|
1988
|
769.14
|
635
|
430.69
|
|
|
1989
|
559.72
|
421.27
|
367.06
|
|
|
1990
|
548.07
|
422.37
|
283.44
|
|
|
1991
|
149.59
|
141.78
|
0
|
|
|
1992
|
27.14
|
0.57
|
7.2
|
|
|
1993
|
74.19
|
7.98
|
0
|
|
|
1994
|
68.43
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1995
|
23.13
|
10.1
|
0
|
|
|
1996
|
22.79
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1997
|
57.17
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1998
|
36.32
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
1999
|
102.14
|
6.72
|
0.22
|
|
|
2000
|
45.72
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
2001
|
228.02
|
0.54
|
0
|
|
|
2002
|
937.34
|
744.74
|
1739.7
|
1386.06
|
|
2003
|
377.93
|
284.81
|
1760.23
|
1450.98
|
|
2004
|
406.12
|
316.56
|
891.39
|
794.11
|
|
2005
|
490.42
|
374.04
|
1397.06
|
1050.15
|
|
2006
|
689.43
|
488.46
|
1246.1
|
916.13
|
|
2007
|
688.62
|
498.91
|
1079.72
|
755.74
|
|
2008
|
614.48
|
392.05
|
1378.32
|
1014.9
|
|
2009
|
1353.65
|
1076.25
|
1114.26
|
685
|
|
2010
|
1867.13
|
1529.53
|
2524.61
|
1220.5
|
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Note: All figures
are in US$ (millions). Figures are adjusted for inflation and presented in
2009 constant dollars
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