Foreign aidSouth and Central AsiaFiscal year 2025
US foreign aid to Afghanistan
The US gave Afghanistan -$9.7 million in foreign aid in FY2025.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated -$9.7 million in foreign assistance for Afghanistan and disbursed $431.4 million, according to ForeignAssistance.gov.
What the numbers show
FY2025 obligations were down 101.3% from $755.0 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $3.8 billion a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2015, at $8.3 billion. In total, $38.4 billion was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.
For FY2026, $1.2 million has been reported so far. Agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov quarterly and with a lag, so this page uses FY2025 for comparisons. The figures cover aid recorded for Afghanistan itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the South and Central Asia page).
US aid to Afghanistan by year
Afghanistan: -$9.7M in FY2025, against a peak of $8.3B in FY2015
Obligations by fiscal year and managing agency, FY2015–FY2026, nominal dollars. FY26* is incomplete. Net de-obligations are drawn as zero.
- Other agencies
- Defense Department
- State Department
- USAID
View every year as a table
| Fiscal year | USAID | State Department | Defense Department | Other agencies | Total obligated | Disbursed | Per person | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | $1.6B | $425.4M | $6.3B | $4.5M | $8.3B | $9.4B | $246.39 | 1 |
| FY2016 | $1.0B | $161.1M | $3.9B | $2.9M | $5.1B | $4.4B | $146.33 | 1 |
| FY2017 | $983.8M | $345.0M | $4.4B | $2.4M | $5.8B | $5.0B | $161.16 | 1 |
| FY2018 | $732.1M | $231.2M | $5.0B | $3.0M | $5.9B | $5.2B | $161.80 | 1 |
| FY2019 | $986.9M | $243.3M | $3.7B | $1.7M | $4.9B | $4.7B | $129.20 | 1 |
| FY2020 | $1.0B | $218.4M | $2.8B | $257,204 | $4.0B | $3.8B | $102.43 | 1 |
| FY2021 | $550.5M | $216.6M | $639.2M | $0 | $1.4B | $1.0B | $35.16 | 4 |
| FY2022 | $918.9M | $142.6M | $327.6M | $0 | $1.4B | $1.9B | $34.23 | 4 |
| FY2023 | $832.5M | $68.2M | -$14.2M | $0 | $886.5M | $1.3B | $21.39 | 9 |
| FY2024 | $743.2M | $14.3M | -$2.5M | $0 | $755.0M | $658.9M | $17.70 | 16 |
| FY2025 | -$4.4M | -$3.7M | -$1.6M | $0 | -$9.7M | $431.4M | – | – |
| FY2026* | -$610,486 | $1.9M | -$66,000 | $0 | $1.2M | -$69.9M | $0.03 | 67 |
Source: ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State).
Who manages it and what it pays for, FY2025
By managing agency
By sector
| Sector | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Humanitarian Assistance | $3.4 million | – |
| Health | $2.2 million | – |
| Program Support | $1.7 million | – |
Largest program areas
| Program area | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Protection, Assistance and Solutions | $4.9 million | – |
| Private Sector Competitiveness | $2.1 million | – |
| Direct Administrative Costs | $1.7 million | – |
| Maternal and Child Health | $1.5 million | – |
| Family Planning and Reproductive Health | $603,852 | – |
| Agriculture | $406,631 | – |
| Other Public Health Threats | $58,046 | – |
| Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) | $51,409 | – |
| Disaster Readiness | $20,970 | – |
Sectors over the last five years
| Sector | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humanitarian Assistance | $950.4M | $1.1B | $693.1M | $529.5M | $3.4M |
| Health | $42.4M | $85.9M | $76.0M | $76.0M | $2.2M |
| Economic Development | $63.2M | $101.0M | $30.3M | $47.1M | -$6.3M |
| Peace and Security | $83.7M | $50.4M | $31.8M | $21.5M | -$4.7M |
| Education and Social Services | $43.2M | $49.3M | $36.2M | $41.0M | -$4.7M |
| Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance | $104.3M | $31.5M | $11.8M | $12.1M | -$1.1M |
| Program Support | $119.3M | -$36.4M | $7.4M | $27.9M | $1.7M |
| Environment | $500,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Multi-sector | -$726,767 | -$5.0M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
How Afghanistan compares
Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025
US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.
| Slovak Republic | -$447,998 |
| Moldova | -$1.8 million |
| Afghanistan (this page) | -$9.7 million |
Other countries in South and Central Asia
- Bangladesh$319M
- Pakistan$196M
- India$104M
- Nepal$56M
- Tajikistan$35M
- Sri Lanka$24M
- Kyrgyzstan$21M
- Uzbekistan$20M
More on US foreign aid
Questions and answers
- How much foreign aid does the US give Afghanistan?
- -$9.7 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $431.4 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $38.4 billion.
- Has US aid to Afghanistan gone up or down?
- FY2025: -$9.7 million; FY2024: $755.0 million (down 101.3%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2015 ($8.3 billion).
Sources and notes
- ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State), complete dataset (us_foreign_aid_complete.csv), version of 02 Sep 2026, retrieved 2026-10-06. Obligations and disbursements in current (nominal) US dollars by U.S. fiscal year (October to September), FY2015–FY2026; FY2026 is incomplete. Public domain.
- Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators, SP.POP.TOTL (updated 2026-07-13), CC BY 4.0.
- Per-person figures divide the fiscal-year obligations by the World Bank population for the same calendar year.
- How the figures are built, and what they leave out: method and caveats.