Australia is near the bottom of new global aid rankings. 

New OECD aid data for 2020 shows Australia’s aid efforts are among its worst in global terms.

Australia started the decade above the global aid average, with an aid-to-income ratio of 0.34 per cent of GNI, while the OECD average was 0.31 per cent. 

In 2020, OECD aid had increased slightly to 0.32 per cent. Meanwhile, Australia's aid has plummeted to 0.19 per cent of GNI.

The rankings should improve slightly in 2021 with a modest aid increase announced by the Morrison Government in response to COVID-19. 

However, “the government’s timidity is betrayed by its reluctance to even acknowledge that it is actually increasing aid,” according to development policy expert Stephen Howes. 

“Australia is one of the richest countries in the world (the tenth richest in the OECD in 2018). We should be an aid leader not an aid laggard.”

More analysis is accessible here.