United States very largely in the lead in aid
This choropleth map represents, in billions of euros, the level of aid to Ukraine as of May 10, 2022.
Countries contributing to aid for Ukraine
Countries not shown on the map
Far ahead are the United States, with nearly 43 billion euros since the end of January 2022, including 24.11 billion in military aid (56% of the total). And it’s not over. On May 11, the US House of Representatives validated a new envelope of 40 billion euros – the equivalent of Cameroon’s annual GDP, for comparison.
The countries of the European Union provided both bilateral aid (9.79 billion euros) and joint aid from European Union funds (4.12 billion euros) – a total of 13.91 billion euros.
In absolute terms, the richer a country, the more generous it has been to Ukraine. On the other hand, when these aids are related to the gross domestic product, the ratios change. US downgrades to 4and rank (0.2% of GDP), behind neighbors or friendly former Soviet republics: Estonia is the most generous with 0.82% of its GDP in aid to Ukraine. Another Baltic country, Lithuania (0.72%), and Poland (0.46%) follow. France is eleventh, with 0.08% of its GDP, again according to data from the German institute Kiel.
These data, as interesting as they are, nevertheless have some limitations, warn those who compiled them. It is impossible for them to count private donations, any more than the aid provided by countries to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), or to UNESCO, for example.
In the same way, the data do not take into account the reception of refugees, which represents a significant effort for the countries bordering Ukraine; Poland, for example, took in 3.4 million Ukrainian refugees, Romania 919,000.
Nevertheless, despite these limitations, the data leaves little to the imagination: Western countries have made a substantial effort to come to the aid of kyiv. By invading Ukraine – without a declaration of war – Vladimir Putin found himself surrounded by hostile or worried neighbours, including the traditionally neutral Finns and Swedes.