In 2025, international financing of humanitarian aid reached its lowest level in ten years.

Omissions

• Full-year 2025 final figures may still be subject to revision by UN OCHA's Financial Tracking Service and the OECD DAC; the GHO 2026 (published December 2025) is the reference point available before the session date.
• The OECD's preliminary data indicate humanitarian aid declined in 2025 for the second consecutive year, alongside the largest ODA contraction on record (23.1% in real terms), which provides additional context for the 2025 low.
• The OCHA October 2025 snapshot shows funding to UN-coordinated appeals at $18.64 billion by end-October 2025 versus $25.29 billion a year earlier (a 26% decline), a narrower metric than total international humanitarian financing but consistent with the trend.

Sources

• PrimaryOCHA Global Humanitarian Overview 2026 — humanitarianaction.info (UN OCHA official GHO platform)In 2025, humanitarian funding saw its greatest contraction in a decade, with donor cuts causing funding to drop below 2016 levels.
• PrimaryOCHA Global Humanitarian Overview 2025, October Update (snapshot 31 October 2025)Total humanitarian funding has also declined, reaching $18.64 billion compared to $25.29 billion at the end of October last year — a 26 per cent decline.
• SecondaryCouncil on Foreign Relations — 'The Great Aid Recession: 2025's Humanitarian Crash in Nine Charts'Total funding has dropped to 2016 levels.
• SecondaryDevelopment Initiatives — Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2025The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2025 shows a humanitarian sector entering financial crisis. Cuts in international humanitarian funding... Funding from public donors fell from US $37.5 billion in 2023 to US $33.9 billion in 2024. A range of scenarios produced for this report show that funding from public donors could drop between 34 and 45% in 2025 from their peak in 2023.