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Canada's aid to Afghanistan

$3,426,205,620 reported from 2005-06 to 2024-25 across 648 projects and 146 recipient organizations.

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Total, all years
$3.43B
2005-06 to 2024-25
Latest year
$79.6M
2024-25
Projects
648
with money reported
Recipient organizations
146
all years

What this money equals at home

Based on $3.12B given abroad as grants on this page. Not counted: $306M in repayable loans.

9,629
family doctors paid for a year
Average gross clinical payment to a family physician, 2023-24. Includes the doctor's office costs. CIHI, A profile of physicians in Canada
36,974
registered nurses paid for a year
Median wage of $43.27 an hour (2023-24) for 1,950 hours (37.5 hours a week). Wages only, no benefits. Job Bank, Government of Canada
1.4
new 548-bed hospitals
The new St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver: $2.174 billion for up to 548 beds (2021 budget). Government of British Columbia, March 8, 2021
12,089
affordable homes built
Rapid Housing Initiative: $4 billion for more than 15,500 permanent affordable homes, about $258,000 each. CMHC, Rapid Housing Initiative
140,168
homeless people housed with support for a year
Housing First for people with high needs: $22,257 per person per year. Measured in 2014 dollars, so today's number of people would be lower. Mental Health Commission of Canada, At Home/Chez Soi final report
145 days
of Veterans Affairs Canada's entire budget
Total planned spending of Veterans Affairs Canada for 2025-26: $7.83 billion. Veterans Affairs Canada, 2025-26 Departmental Plan

These comparisons use average Canadian costs to show the scale of the money. They are not a costed plan.

Spending by fiscal year

Read firstFiles before 2016-17 cover only CIDA and DFATD development programs. From 2016-17 they cover every federal department and the provinces, which is why totals jump. Amounts are nominal Canadian dollars per fiscal year (April to March). Aid type was not recorded before 2010-11. Negative amounts are repayments.

By cause

By department

By aid type

Top 25 recipient organizations

Top 25 projects

all years, by total amount
#ProjectAmount
1
(no title in the data)
P002278001 · 2016-17 to 2017-18
Main recipient: (not specified)
$192M
$192,500,000
2
(no title in the data)
P002661001 · 2017-18 to 2019-20
Main recipient: (not specified)
$165M
$165,000,000
3
(no title in the data)
P006259001 · 2018-19 to 2020-21
Main recipient: (not specified)
$130M
$130,000,000
4
Funding to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund 2020-2024
P007508001 ↗ · 2020-21 to 2024-25
Main recipient: IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
$118M
$117,999,999
5
(no title in the data)
A033770001 · 2007-08 to 2013-14
Main recipient: (not specified)
$110M
$109,500,000
6
(no title in the data)
A033780001 · 2007-08 to 2012-13
Main recipient: (not specified)
$91.5M
$91,500,000
7
(no title in the data)
A033774001 · 2008-09 to 2013-14
Main recipient: UNMAS - United Nations Mine Action Service
$58.1M
$58,095,138
8
(no title in the data)
A032660002 · 2007-08
Main recipient: (not specified)
$55.0M
$55,000,000
9
(no title in the data)
D000344001 · 2014-15 to 2015-16
Main recipient: (not specified)
$55.0M
$55,000,000
10
(no title in the data)
P006849001 ↗ · 2018-19 to 2019-20
Main recipient: (not specified)
$55.0M
$55,000,000
11
(no title in the data)
A033773001 · 2007-08 to 2009-10
Main recipient: (not specified)
$55.0M
$55,000,000
12
(no title in the data)
P002278002 ↗ · 2017-18
Main recipient: (not specified)
$55.0M
$55,000,000
13
Humanitarian Response to the Afghanistan Crisis - Emergency Response - WFP 2022
P011211001 ↗ · 2021-22
Main recipient: (not specified)
$52.4M
$52,447,500
14
(no title in the data)
P000821001 ↗ · 2016-17 to 2021-22
Main recipient: (not specified)
$46.5M
$46,500,000
15
(no title in the data)
A033627001 · 2008-09 to 2014-15
Main recipient: (not specified)
$44.1M
$44,146,775
16
(no title in the data)
A034505001 · 2008-09 to 2009-10
Main recipient: (not specified)
$43.7M
$43,700,000
17
(no title in the data)
A032445001 · 2005-06 to 2006-07
Main recipient: World Bank
$40.0M
$40,000,000
18
(no title in the data)
A035242001 · 2011-12 to 2015-16
Main recipient: (not specified)
$38.1M
$38,142,295
19
(no title in the data)
A032234001 · 2005-06 to 2006-07
Main recipient: (not specified)
$38.0M
$38,000,000
20
(no title in the data)
A032660001 · 2005-06 to 2006-07
Main recipient: (not specified)
$30.5M
$30,500,000
21
(no title in the data)
A032445002 · 2006-07
Main recipient: (not specified)
$30.0M
$30,000,000
22
(no title in the data)
A034192002 · 2009-10 to 2010-11
Main recipient: (not specified)
$28.0M
$28,000,000
23
(no title in the data)
D003327001 · 2015-16
Main recipient: (not specified)
$27.5M
$27,500,000
24
(no title in the data)
D002347001 · 2014-15
Main recipient: (not specified)
$27.5M
$27,500,000
25
(no title in the data)
A033786001 · 2007-08 to 2009-10
Main recipient: (not specified)
$26.5M
$26,500,000