Key stats: facts/stats mentioned throughout the document

[jm-rivera]

• [x] Net finance flows to developing countries fall xx% to their lowest level in two decades
• [x] Net financial transfers [...] peak of $xx billion in 2014
• [x] Net financial transfers [...] $xx billion in 2022
• [x] Net financial transfers [...] decline of xx%
• [x] Upper-middle-income countries, home to xx% of the world’s population, hit negative transfers in 2021.
• [x] Lower-middle-income countries are projected to hit negative transfers this year.
• [x] One in xx emerging markets and developing countries paid more to service their debt in 2022 than they received in external financing.
• [x] More debt service than external finance to hit one in xx by 2025.
• [x] In 2023, donors spent more than xx% of their aid at home.
• [x] In 2022, xx countries paid a total of $xx billion more to service their external debts than they received in new external finance
• [x] In 2022 countries [...] had net negative transfers. They have a total population of xx / x% of the global population
• [x] [countries in net negative transfers could raise] to xx countries in 2025
• [x] [countries in negative net transfers could be] paying a total of xx billion in negative net transfers if financing flows do not increase.
• [x] Developing countries paid $xx billion in debt service in 2022.
• [x] [developing countries projected to pay in debt service] XX billion in 2024
• [x] Chinese lending to Africa (average) of $xx billion between 2008 and 2021
• [x] Chinese lending to Africa $xx billion in 2022.
• [x] The impact will be felt most severely by low-income countries, where Chinese lending has accounted for XX% of new finance over the last XX years
• [x] Latest Chinese lending in low-income countries has fallen to XX%.
• [x] Private finance flows have halved from a high of $xx billion in 2017
• [x] Private finance flows have halved to $xx billion in 2022.
• [ ] In 2022, xx% of official aid went to Ukraine and to supporting refugees in donor countries
• [ ] Because donors can count the costs of hosting refugees as aid, xx in yy aid dollars never left the donor country
• [ ] Seven donors last year spent more than one-quarter of their total aid on refugees at home.
• [ ] The UK spent half of its 2023 aid budget….in the UK.

[jm-rivera]

@sharcourt14 @lpicci96 @Mattie-P FYI this tracks all the 'facts' on the paper that require calculations. There are others (cited) which should also be fact checked.

If other facts are added (hopefully not), please comment here so we can track them.

The purpose of this is to produce a file with all of these numbers, calculated automatically from the data (in case we change anything on the data/methodology/etc., and to facilitate fact-checking).

[jm-rivera]

In 2023, donors spent more than xx% of their aid at home.

See comment in doc

[jm-rivera]

remainin stats are ODA from preliminary so not coded

[jm-rivera]

Re-opening in case we need to tweak numbers