Ukraine was still the largest recipient in FY2025
| Recipient, FY2025 | Obligations ($m) | Per U.S. resident ($) | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 18,007 | 52.66 | 37.3 |
| Israel | 3,305 | 9.67 | 6.8 |
| Jordan | 1,619 | 4.73 | 3.4 |
| Ethiopia | 852 | 2.49 | 1.8 |
| Nigeria | 620 | 1.81 | 1.3 |
| West Bank and Gaza | 565 | 1.65 | 1.2 |
| Kenya | 562 | 1.64 | 1.2 |
| Sudan | 548 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
| Mozambique | 503 | 1.47 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 500 | 1.46 | 1 |
| Uganda | 455 | 1.33 | 0.9 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 453 | 1.32 | 0.9 |
| Zambia | 424 | 1.24 | 0.9 |
| Tanzania | 415 | 1.21 | 0.9 |
| Micronesia, Federated States of | 399 | 1.17 | 0.8 |
| All recipients (23,052 obligation records) | 48,313 | 141.29 | 100 |
Source. ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State), annual obligation files by activity (explorer_obligations_{FY}.csv), current dollars. Fiscal year 2025.
Method and data
Method. ForeignAssistance.gov obligations, FY2025, current dollars: economic $30.8 billion, military $17.5 billion. Regional and worldwide program rows are excluded. The fifteen largest countries are ranked from ForeignAssistance.gov’s country summary (us_foreign_aid_country.csv). Each share is of all FY2025 obligations, $48,313 million, which includes the program rows; every fiscal year from 2001 is in 09-04-foreign-assistance-top-recipients-2001-2026.csv. Per U.S. resident divides by the 2025 population (341,944 thousand).
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Higgins Strategy. “Ukraine was still the largest recipient in FY2025” Exhibit 10, Every Dollar of War (Study IX). October 12, 2026. https://higginsstrategy.com/charts/09-foreign-assistance-recipients-fy2025/