英国2025年度官方发展援助预算占国民总收入的比例从2024年的0.5%下降至0.44%，总体削减9.87亿英镑1。其中受创最重的是最不发达国家和低收入国家，援助削减幅度达6.7%，金额为1.18亿英镑1。
这轮削减导致全球最需要帮助的地区面临严重困难。据Alnap报告，去年有6400万更少的人获得了援助1。援助专家警告，英美欧洲联合削减援助迫使援助工作者只能提供紧急救生支持，可能导致数百万可避免的死亡1。援助政策专家Gideon Rabinowitz表示："这是最不发达国家首当其冲承受削减最为令人震惊"1。
英国用于国内庇护寻求者成本的援助占最高份额，达18.4%，较2024年的20%有所下降1。援助最多的三个国家是乌克兰、也门和阿富汗，其中也门援助到2028/29年将削减28%，阿富汗将削减39%1。英国政府表示援助削减资金将重新用于国防支出1。慈善网络Bond已呼吁新首相安迪·博内姆重新考虑前任的援助削减政策1。
The UK's official development assistance budget has fallen to 0.44 percent of gross national income in 2025, down from 0.5 percent in 2024, representing a reduction of £987 million overall 1. The cuts have disproportionately affected the world's most vulnerable countries, with aid to least developed and low-income nations declining by 6.7 percent, equivalent to £118 million 1.
Among the hardest-hit recipients, Yemen faces a 28 percent reduction in aid by 2028/29, while Afghanistan will see cuts of 39 percent 1. Ukraine, Yemen, and Afghanistan remain the top three recipients of UK aid, though Ukraine's assistance is separately accounted for 1. The reduction in aid to developing nations comes as the government redirects savings toward defense spending 1. Meanwhile, the share of the aid budget dedicated to domestic costs of asylum seekers in the UK has declined from 20 percent in 2024 to 18.4 percent 1.
Aid experts have warned that combined cuts from the UK, United States, and Europe are forcing humanitarian workers to provide only emergency lifesaving support, with the potential to result in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths 1. According to an Alnap report, 64 million fewer people received assistance in the previous year 1. The charity network Bond has called on new Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reconsider his predecessor's aid reduction policies 1.
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