Japan's official development assistance ranked fourth in the world in 2018, the latest year available, according to a Foreign Ministry report released Tuesday.
The White Paper on Development Cooperation 2019 for the first time uses the grant equivalent system to measure ODA to reflect donor countries' efforts more accurately. In this method, the amount of yen loans and other types of loan assistance becomes higher as the terms and conditions of the loans become more lenient.
Japan's ODA disbursements in 2018 totaled about 14.16 billion dollars (about 1.56 trillion yen), with the United States leading the way at about 34.15 billion dollars, followed by Germany (24.98 billion dollars) and Britain (19.41 billion dollar).
The report also carried columns in memory of Sadako Ogata, the former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees who died last year, and Tetsu Nakamura, the doctor and local representative of the nongovernmental organization Peshawar-kai providing humanitarian aid in Afghanistan who was killed last year.
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