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.
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 $300m for counterinsurgency programmes.
US aid to Pakistan has
a long political history and this is not the first time money has been
withheld. Here we've pulled out all the figures for both US military aid and
economic assistance (including development assistance) to Pakistan between 1948
and 2010.
The dataset comes from Wren Elhai, at the
Washington-based Center for Global Development (CGD),
who in May published a report along with Nancy Birdsall and Molly Kinder
analysing the long-term impact of US aid to Pakistan. The numbers - which come
from the US Overseas Grants and
Loans database and the Congressional Research
Service - have been adjusted for inflation and are
presented in terms of the value of the US$ in 2009.
US aid to Pakistan,
1948-2010
Some highlights:
• US economic assistance to Pakistan
peaked in 1962, at over $2.3bn
• in 2010, military assistance to
Pakistan totalled $2.5bn - including $1.2bn in coalition support funds
• US assistance to Pakistan reached its
lowest level in the 1990s, after President George H.W. Bush suspended aid flows
over Pakistan's emerging nuclear programme
• US military assistance dropped
dramatically during and immediately after the Indo-Pakistani wars of 1965 and
1971
• in the 1970s, President Carter
suspended all aid to Pakistan (except food aid) in response to Pakistan's
decision to construct a uranium enrichment facility
• although US assistance (both economic
and military) to Pakistan has fluctuated considerably over the last 60 years,
it has risen steadily since 2001
Pakistan has historically been among the top recipients
of US aid - since 1948, the US has sent more than £30bn in direct
aid to the country. Nearly half of this has been for military
assistance. However, since Osama bin Laden was discovered and killed in
Abbottabad earlier this year, US president Barack Obama has come under
increasing pressure to justify US aid spending in the country.
Although military assistance is
currently the only form of US aid to Pakistan to be withheld, Congress has
considered other - as yet unsuccessful - bills to also block US economic
assistance, and civilian aid to Pakistan will no doubt be up for debate again
next year, as the 2012 budget battles get underway.
Data summary
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Summary of US aid to
Pakistan 1948-2010
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Year
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Economic Assistance, Total
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Economic Assistance (through USAID)
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Military Assistance, Total
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Coalition Support Funds
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Note:
All figures are in US$ (millions). Figures are adjusted for inflation and
presented in 2009 constant dollars
Source: Wren Elhai, Center for Global
Development, 2011
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1948
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0.77
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0
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0
|
|
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1949
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0
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0
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0
|
|
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1950
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
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1951
|
2.89
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0
|
0
|
|
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1952
|
74.25
|
73.55
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0
|
|
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1953
|
748.29
|
286.23
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0
|
|
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1954
|
156.95
|
152.24
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0
|
|
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1955
|
733.15
|
477.18
|
266
|
|
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1956
|
1065.67
|
700.89
|
1086.5
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|
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1957
|
1079.65
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619.9
|
437.59
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1958
|
968.22
|
589.59
|
533.13
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|
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1959
|
1367.93
|
985.25
|
366.81
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|
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1960
|
1689.84
|
1181.35
|
230.39
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1961
|
989.53
|
780.04
|
260.47
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1962
|
2334.65
|
1446.28
|
549.02
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1963
|
2066.77
|
1063.68
|
292.31
|
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1964
|
2222.66
|
1334.16
|
187.55
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1965
|
1928.9
|
1041.58
|
77.38
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1966
|
816.28
|
691.28
|
8.4
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1967
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1213.36
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719.38
|
26.33
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1968
|
1501.68
|
672.5
|
25.98
|
|
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1969
|
541.76
|
504.31
|
0.5
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|
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1970
|
968.32
|
570.93
|
0.87
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1971
|
474.25
|
31.21
|
0.73
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1972
|
692.87
|
261.87
|
0.42
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1973
|
715.35
|
387.63
|
1.24
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1974
|
381.97
|
219.13
|
0.95
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|
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1975
|
614.34
|
326.02
|
0.92
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1976
|
644.1
|
336.78
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1.28
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1977
|
319.16
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209.4
|
0.92
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1978
|
214.92
|
55.49
|
1.52
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1979
|
128.81
|
23.31
|
1.2
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|
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1980
|
137.53
|
0
|
0
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1981
|
164.16
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0
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0
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1982
|
400.6
|
200.07
|
1.2
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|
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1983
|
534.18
|
383.29
|
499.77
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|
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1984
|
568.05
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415.84
|
555.9
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|
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1985
|
607.26
|
447.53
|
583.53
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|
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1986
|
623.56
|
460.91
|
545.82
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|
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1987
|
599.07
|
469.53
|
534.54
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|
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1988
|
769.14
|
635
|
430.69
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|
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1989
|
559.72
|
421.27
|
367.06
|
|
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1990
|
548.07
|
422.37
|
283.44
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|
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1991
|
149.59
|
141.78
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0
|
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1992
|
27.14
|
0.57
|
7.2
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1993
|
74.19
|
7.98
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0
|
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1994
|
68.43
|
0
|
0
|
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1995
|
23.13
|
10.1
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0
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1996
|
22.79
|
0
|
0
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1997
|
57.17
|
0
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0
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1998
|
36.32
|
0
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0
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1999
|
102.14
|
6.72
|
0.22
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2000
|
45.72
|
0
|
0
|
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2001
|
228.02
|
0.54
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0
|
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2002
|
937.34
|
744.74
|
1739.7
|
1386.06
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2003
|
377.93
|
284.81
|
1760.23
|
1450.98
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2004
|
406.12
|
316.56
|
891.39
|
794.11
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2005
|
490.42
|
374.04
|
1397.06
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1050.15
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2006
|
689.43
|
488.46
|
1246.1
|
916.13
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2007
|
688.62
|
498.91
|
1079.72
|
755.74
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2008
|
614.48
|
392.05
|
1378.32
|
1014.9
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2009
|
1353.65
|
1076.25
|
1114.26
|
685
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2010
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1867.13
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1529.53
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2524.61
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1220.5
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