The chart compares the amount of dollars for financial aid from six developed countries, which are the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and Sweden to developing countries between 2008 and 2010.
Overall, Sweden was the only country that displayed a downward trend, while others experienced an upward trend after a two-year period. The US was the largest donor among these countries in all surveyed years.
In 2008, the US ranked first with around 22 billion dollars, followed by Germany, Japan and the UK, as their figures ranged from 8 billion dollars to 11 billion dollars, while Netherlands and Sweden ranked last with the same figure of 6 billion dollars.
Between 2009 and 2010, most of these countries displayed an increase in the amount of dollars for financial aid to developing countries, in which the US notably outnumbered others with the widest gap from 19 to 25 billion dollars. Conversely, Netherlands and Sweden showed a downward trend, while the amount of money from the former decreased slightly from 9 to 8 billion dollars, that from the latter reduced considerably from 8 to 5 billion dollars.
