United States
The United States is the largest single provider of aid to Africa in the OECD's record, and only a small part of it is infrastructure.
- 133,146
- aid activities in Africa, 2018–2024: USD 136.20 bn committed, 100% grants
- USD 12,798 m
- of it for things that get built, 11,053 records over the seven years
- USD 43.2 bn
- US direct-investment stock in Africa at the end of 2024, Egypt 28%, Mauritius 27%
- 32 + 10 + 11
- pipelines, power units and cables with a US owner in the map's layers; USD 6,764 m owed to US creditors by 19 governments
133,146 activities with an African recipient for 2018–2024, USD 136.20 bn committed, 100% of them grants; 66% are reported by the Agency for International Development, and the largest purpose by far is STD control including HIV/AIDS, USD 23,843 m. Only 11,053 records, USD 12,798 m, build, renovate or drill something. The 2024 figures are the last full year before the agency was folded into the State Department in 2025.
The money that does build is private and corporate: US direct-investment stock in Africa stood at USD 43.2 bn at the end of 2024, Egypt, Mauritius and Nigeria first, and the map's own layers carry 32 pipelines with Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Apache or Occidental among the owners, 10 power units with a US owner, and 11 submarine cables owned by Google, Meta or AT&T. What African governments owe US creditors is USD 6,764 m at the end of 2024; USD 1,161 m of it is owed to the US government, what is left after 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 · Global Energy Monitor and TeleGeography as on the map