All data can also be downloaded in Excel and text format at http://www.oecd.org/dac/aidoutlook. This also includes additional activity level data for a few donors.

CPA is the proportion of aid that is subjected to multi-year programming at country level, and hence represent a subset of ODA outflows. It takes as a starting point data on gross ODA disbursements by recipient but excludes spending which is: (1) inherently unpredictable (humanitarian aid and debt relief); or (2) entails no flows to the recipient country (administration costs, student costs, development awareness and research and refugee spending in donor countries); or (3) is usually not discussed between the main donor agency and recipient governments (food aid, aid from local governments, core funding to NGOs, aid through secondary agencies, ODA equity investments and aid which is not allocable by country). (4) CPA does not net out loan repayments, as these are not usually factored into aid allocation decisions. CPA is therefore a gross concept. For more information on CPA, see http://www.oecd.org/dac/cpa.

The figures represent donors’ current indicative planning figures, and can include both future spending of already committed, on-going aid projects and programmes, as well as estimates of future total country budget envelopes over the next three years. For some donors, the future spending plans do not cover total country budget envelopes, but only on-going and planned aid projects and programmes. In addition, the number of years into the future a donor can plan vary across donors. Some donors can provide indicative forward spending plans for the next three years while others are only able provide it for the coming year. These limitations to the data depend on donors' budgetary and programming frameworks and cycles.