Germany
Germany's record is the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development's, delivered by KfW and GIZ, and it reports it in full.
- 28,650
- aid activities in Africa, 2018–2024: USD 48.02 bn committed, 291 loans
- 2,448
- BMZ projects running now in 43 countries, 389 carried out by GIZ and 779 by KfW; 10,384 on record
- USD 14.7 bn
- German direct-investment stock in Africa at the end of 2024, South Africa 48%, Egypt 11%
- USD 13,597 m
- owed to German creditors by 23 governments at the end of 2024; 12 power units with a German owner, 361 MW operating
28,650 activities with an African recipient for 2018–2024, USD 48.02 bn committed, 291 of them loans, KfW's development loans to the larger economies; 54% of the activities are reported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the rest by the research, foreign and economic affairs ministries and by DEG, the development finance arm. The largest purpose is Formal sector financial intermediaries, USD 4,827 m; Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt receive the most. The ministry's own IATI files are the fuller record of who does the work: 10,384 projects in Africa, EUR 56.0 bn committed since 1990, 2,448 of them running now in 43 countries. KfW carries out 1,722 of them, EUR 29.7 bn, GIZ 1,405, EUR 15.5 bn, and German NGOs, churches, foundations and UN agencies the other 7,257; the main map draws the 1,615 that build infrastructure.
German direct-investment stock in Africa stood at USD 14.7 bn at the end of 2024, South Africa 48% of it, the carmakers' plants; the map's own power layer carries 12 units owned by juwi, ib vogt, BayWa r.e. or Siemens, most of them solar farms in South Africa. What African governments owe German creditors is USD 13,597 m at the end of 2024, Egypt first; USD 9,304 m of it is owed to the German state, mostly KfW's development loans and what survived the debt relief of the 2000s.
OECD CRS activities 2018–2024, DAC2a net ODA 2010–2024 and FDI positions 2015–2024, fetched 14 Oct 2026 · World Bank International Debt Statistics to 2024, release of 3 Dec 2025 · BMZ's IATI files fetched 22 Oct 2026 · Global Energy Monitor as on the map