U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants, Obligations and Loan Authorizations (Greenbook)
The most comprehensive source for United States aid to foreign countries.
“The Greenbook shows a complete historical record of United States’ (U.S.) foreign aid to the rest of the world by reporting all loans and grants authorized by the U.S. Government for each fiscal year.
Users can access standard tables already constructed, or create custom tables and reports by selecting recipient countries, years and type of USG assistance. Data is available in either historical or constant dollars. The historical dollar series looks at current-dollar values actually obligated or lent in that year. The constant-dollar price series, converts each year’s loans and obligations amounts into 2004 dollar equivalents. The constant-dollar series allows you to evaluate, on a comparable basis, loans and obligations that occurred in different time periods.” [quoted from home page]
Time period: 1945-2004
Good for: U.S. foreign aid by purpose and by country for each fiscal year
Output: Downloadable .csv or .rtf tables.