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by malloryerik 492 days ago
Many other rich countries give more on a per capita basis.[1] Indeed the U.S. has been kinda cheap, on a percent of gross national income basis.[2] It could be countered, of course, that the U.S. has paid substantially more for defense, and for the defense of many donor countries.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/foreign-aid-given-per-cap...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_sovere...

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This data only includes government spending, which leaves out private and NGO spending. Many Americans prefer that their charity funds be spent outside of the control of the government.