WHO donors in 2023– Setting the agenda for Global Health?

In advance of the 77th World Health Assembly (27 May 2024 to 1 June 2024), the World Health Organization (WHO) published a document (A77/INF./2)on 9 May 2024 entitled, “Voluntary contributions by fund and by contributor, 2023.” Total voluntary contributions to WHO’s Total General Fund in 2023 amounted to: $2,745,753,644; in 2022, total voluntary contributions were $3,624,121,848.

Here is a non-exhaustive list detailing the sources of voluntary contributions to the WHO General Fund and the size of their respective contributions in 2023.

United States of America: $367,655,492
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: $356,338,766
GAVI Alliance: $259,600,523
Germany: $229,078,296
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: $189,720,751
European Commission: $189,362,233
World Bank: $89,881,621
United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF): $73,563,870
Rotary International: $69,184,689
Canada: $65,074,315
Norway: $64,087,696
Netherlands (Kingdom of the): $44,063,570
France: $43,086,295
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation: $43,033,183
Australia: $38,211,462
India: $33,253,761
United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTFO): $33,178,542
Switzerland: $28,563,510
Sweden: $26,625,178
Japan: $25,109,892
Republic of Korea: $20,764,189
Kuwait: $16,750,000
L’institut de France: $15,930,224
Luxembourg: $15,190,024
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM): $13,231,214
Spain: $13,076,696
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): $11,315,634
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS): $11,288,845
Romania: 10,537,408
United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): $10,345,707
Malawi: $10,034,738
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF): $10,000,000
Burkina Faso: $8,379,458
Belgium: $7,745,665
Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain: $1,883,301
Government of Flanders, Belgium: $798,722
Veneto, Italy: $231,088
Government of Wallonia, Belgium: $108,090