How much foreign aid does the US provide to Albania?
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About $38.5 million in aid was promised for fiscal year (FY) 2023, the most recent fully-reported year. Another $49.8 million has been reported for FY 2024 and $2.52 million for FY 2025.
$38.5M
of foreign aid was committed to Albania (FY 2023).
77.6%
of foreign aid was for economic purposes (FY 2023)
The United States gives foreign assistance to provide humanitarian aid and support peace, security, and economic development around the world. According to foreignassistance.gov, investing in global security and stability serves US national security interests by creating strategic and economic connections with other countries.
The more than 20 government agencies that fund or conduct foreign assistance activities report their aid to the Foreign Assistance and Data Reporting Team at foreignassistance.gov, which is jointly staffed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of State. Due to data collection and reporting lags from the agencies providing aid, it can take up to two years for data to be considered “fully reported.” And even once they are, these numbers continue to change.
Albania is considered an upper-middle income country, according to the World Bank classification system. There are 56 upper-middle income countries that received aid, getting 8.4% of US foreign aid provided to individual countries in FY 2023. Albania ranked #27 among the upper-middle income countries in terms of aid received, between #26 Romania ($40 million) and #28 Jamaica ($34.8 million).
In FY 2023, $38.5 million in foreign aid was committed to Albania.
Obligations by fiscal year, inflation-adjusted dollars
Foreign aid can be either military or non-military in nature. According to foreignassistance.gov, military aid is “... foreign assistance for government armed forces for purposes such as internal security, legitimate self–defense, or to permit their participation in regional or United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations.” Non-military assistance is any other aid, broadly described by “economic assistance.”
In FY 2023, 77.6% of foreign aid was for economic purposes, and the remaining 22.4% was for military purposes.
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What is aid to Albania spent on?
Aid starts in Congress and flows to US government agencies, which are responsible for obligating and disbursing funds and managing the implementing partners that conduct aid activities in the receiving country. An assistance activity “... can be a project, program, cash transfer, delivery of goods, training course, technical assistance, research project, debt relief operation, or a contribution to an international organization.”
Implementing partners can be based in the US or not, and are divided into eight categories:
- Businesses
- Church and faith-based groups
- Governments (either foreign governments or US government agencies like the Peace Corps or the Department of Defense)
- Multilateral organizations (international institutions whose members are country governments, like the World Food Programme of the United Nations)
- Networks (a global or regional organization that brings together public, private, and civil society groups with similar goals to facilitate knowledge sharing)
- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or not-for-profit organizations
- Public and private partnerships (collaborations between the public sector and a private partner to deliver public services, often infrastructure)
- Universities and research institutes
65.8% of US aid to Albania in FY 2023 went to US-based implementing partners.
The top category of aid delivery partner was the US government, accounting for $12.3 million, or 31.8% of all aid. The US government, US-based businesses, and foreign and international NGOs were the top three types of implementing partner in terms of funds received, together accounting for 71.2% of total aid.
In FY 2023, funding for US aid to Albania was appropriated by Congress to four agencies.
| 1. | Department of State | $21.6M |
| 2. | U.S. Agency for International Development | $15.2M |
| 3. | Peace Corps | $1.74M |
| 4. | Department of Agriculture | $80,000 |
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Methodology
USAFacts standardizes data, in areas such as time and demographics, to make it easier to understand and compare.
The analysis was generated with the help of AI and reviewed by USAFacts for accuracy.
