European Union

Where it is on record

The layer's commitments are summed at each country's interior point and sized; the 150 largest records are drawn as stars where the map places them, in its status colours, with every one of the 2,008 on the main map. The map's three placement tiers apply: a named place (631 records), the country's point (1,044) and the Commission's Africa-wide point in Chad for regional programmes (333). Debt owed to the EIB is off until switched on.

The layer and the aid record overlap by design: the Commission's infrastructure contracts are a subset of what it reports to the OECD, and the EIB's operations are the Bank's own. The layer is what can be placed; the OECD record is everything the institutions spent. The two are shown side by side and never added.

The map's EU finance layer: the institutions' own records

The Commission publishes two levels in one IATI file, financing decisions (the whole envelope) and the contracts under them; the layer keeps one record per contract and a decision only where none of its contracts is in the set, so a pipeline action is one announced record and no euro is counted twice. The EIB publishes one global file with no locations at all, which is why its operations sit at the country's interior point. The same infrastructure filter applies as for the African Development Bank and the World Bank: the DAC codes for transport, energy, communications, water, industry and trade. By money the layer's largest sector is transport, USD 8.85 bn; the Commission's part is USD 14.2 bn and the Bank's USD 15.9 bn.

Aid activities: OECD Creditor Reporting System

The OECD counts the Commission and the EIB together as "EU institutions", a provider in its own right beside the member states. 61% of the activities are reported by the European Commission. The largest purpose is Formal sector financial intermediaries, USD 7,739 m; Egypt received the most, USD 9,949 m. 229 records are loans, the EIB's; 97% are grants.

The descriptions often name a town or a district (5,571 records mention one), but the CRS carries no coordinates, so the aid is drawn at country points here; the placed records are the ones in the layer above.

Records that build something

Purpose codes for transport, energy, water and the facility codes of health and education, plus titles that mention building, renovating or drilling: 3,581 records, USD 16,273 m, over the seven years.

Country-year series: net aid and debt

Two official series describe EU money one country and one year at a time. The DAC2a table gives the institutions' net ODA by recipient. The World Bank's debt statistics give what each government owes the European Investment Bank, which lends on its own balance sheet, and, separately, what it owes the EU budget and the European Development Fund, which is the macro-financial assistance loans and the few EDF special loans still outstanding. There is no investment-stock series: the Union is not an investor and the member states' stocks are on their own pages.

Net ODA by recipient

Over 2010–2024 the EU institutions' net ODA to Africa came to USD 96.10 bn; Morocco received the most.

Debt owed to the EIB and to the EU

World Bank International Debt Statistics; all public and publicly guaranteed debt to each creditor (the Bank files the EIB as a multilateral creditor). Sovereign and sovereign-guaranteed borrowing only; the EIB's lending to private borrowers and to countries that do not report to the Debtor Reporting System is outside the series.

How to read this page

One record is

In the layer table, one Commission contract or financing decision, or one EIB operation, as the map carries it. In the aid tables, one CRS activity as the EU institutions report it. In the series, one country and one year.

Status

Layer records use the map's mapping of IATI activity status: 1 announced, 2 under construction, 3 and 4 operating, 5 and 6 stalled; a Commission financing decision still in the pipeline is an announced record. Aid activities have no status.

Money

Layer amounts are the institutions' euros, converted at the rate the map states and never added to the other lenders. CRS commitments and disbursements are in current US dollars as reported. Net ODA is current prices. Debt is the World Bank's stock in current dollars. None is added to another.

Location

The layer's three tiers, stated on every card: a named place, the country's interior point, or the Commission's Africa-wide point in Chad for regional programmes. Aid and the series are drawn at the country's interior point.

Not here, and why

• Global Gateway is a label on existing instruments, not a money record: the Commission's flagship list gives no amount or stage per project. The flagships are on the map as a layer of their own and on the Global Gateway page, paired by hand with the Commission's and the EIB's records here that name the same works.
• EFSD+ guarantees, the main Global Gateway instrument, have no commitment transaction in the IATI files and leave no record here.
• The member states' agencies (AFD, KfW, Enabel, AICS and the others) are national providers and sit on their own pages where one exists.
• Investment stock: the OECD's FDI positions have no reporter for the Union as such.

Sources and licences

• European Commission, DG INTPA and DG NEAR IATI 2.03 activity files (CC BY 4.0) and European Investment Bank, IATI 2.02 global file (attribution required), as the map's layer.
• OECD, Creditor Reporting System, EU institutions as provider (code 4EU001), activity-level microdata through the SDMX API; OECD terms of use, free reuse with attribution. OECD, DAC2a, net ODA by recipient (measure 206), current prices.
• World Bank, International Debt Statistics, source 6, counterpart areas 919, 975, 918 and 917, series DT.DOD.DPPG.CD with its commitment and disbursement series; CC BY 4.0, release of 3 Dec 2025.

Download

Everything on this page, with the layer's aggregates by country, year, sector and institution, the aid aggregates, the two debt series per country and the 150 largest records with their coordinates: eu.json.