Where your tax dollar goes
Foreign assistance, by country
Checking the foreign-assistance record…
Government · FY2024 disbursements
Dollars abroad
$72 billion went to 179 countries — about 1.5% of everything the federal government spent. The ten largest recipients:
Your share
Per $10,000 of federal tax, about $150 went abroad. Roughly the price of a month of groceries for one person.
How this was counted
Figures are disbursements, not commitments, from ForeignAssistance.gov, with the Congressional Research Service used for the budget share. Military financing sits in a separate account and is included where the recipient country is named; where it is not, the page says so rather than estimating.
The live table, reporting its own state
The bars above were hand-checked against ForeignAssistance.gov for the design. The table below is the live pipeline, and until its loader runs it says so — “we have not loaded the figures” and “nothing was sent” are different claims.