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E2: Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development

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The indicator is part of the EU Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set. It is used to monitor progress towards SDG 17 on revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development which are embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under 'A stronger Europe in the world'.

SDG 17 calls for a global partnership for sustainable development. It highlights the importance of macroeconomic stability and of mobilising financial resources for developing countries. It also stresses the importance of trade and equitable rules for governing it. The goal also emphasises the importance of access to science and technology, in particular internet-based information and communications technology. To reach the objectives of Goal 17, Official Development Assistance and other financial resources, whether public or private, domestic or international will be needed. 

The EU pursues a coherent and supportive approach to development, where all financial flows to developing countries, including aid, investment and trade, work together with domestic resource mobilisation and good policies to help build capacity and support self-reliance in these countries. Thus, the indicator complements the indicator on development assistance.

The indicator shows the total official and private EU financing to developing countries. These consist of net disbursements of Official Development Assistance (ODA), other official flows (OOFs), private flows (mainly foreign direct investment, FDI) and grants by private agencies and NGOs. ODA consists of grants or concessional loans undertaken by the official sector with promotion of economic development and welfare in the recipient countries as the main objective. OOFs are transactions which do not meet the conditions for eligibility as ODA, either because they are not primarily aimed at development, or because they have a grant element of less than 25 %. Private flows include direct investment, bonds, export credits and multilateral private flows. Grants by private agencies and national NGOs consists of funds for development assistance and relief, together with any additional contributions in kind, including, for instance proceeds from charity Christmas card sales or special appeals (for example, for disaster relief).

Developing countries are considered to be those on the OECD DAC (Development Assistance Committee) list of aid recipients.

million EUR (constant prices)

Calendar year

Indicator from non-ESS source. For assessment of accuracy please refer to the original source (see link to external data source and metadata in section “Annexes”).

OECD (DAC)

Data source: OECD database

Data provider: Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Every year

The indicator is updated annually.

T+2 years

New data points are disseminated within two year after the reference year.

All EU MS

Data are presented for all EU Member States plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Türkiye (OECD publishes data for all DAC members as well as a number of non-DAC donor countries on their website).

All EU MS

Data are comparable between all EU Member States respectively other presented countries.

> 10 years

Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in 2000.

> 4 data points

Length of comparable time series without methodological break is longer than 4 data points.

Analysis of indicator is presented in Eurostat's annual monitoring report on Sustainable development in the EU (progress towards SDGs in the EU context).

See table sdg_17_20

Eurostat dedicated section on SDGs: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/overview

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