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US foreign aid to Argentina

The US gave Argentina $2.3 million in foreign aid in FY2025: $0.05 per person, 121st of 173 recipient countries.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated $2.3 million in foreign assistance for Argentina and disbursed $8.4 million, according to ForeignAssistance.gov.

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Program Support reporting for FY2025 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2025: $2.3 million against a FY2022–24 average of $7.3 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2025: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency, through quarter 4.)
FY2025 obligated
$2.3M
$2.3 million
Per person
$0.05
pop. 45,851,378 (2025)
Rank
121st
of 173 recipient countries
FY2025 disbursed
$8.4M
paid out in the year

Argentina ranks 121st of 173 recipient countries

US foreign aid obligated in FY2025, every recipient country, highest to lowest.

$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Argentina $2.3 millionHighestLowest$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Argentina $2.3 millionHighestLowest

What the numbers show

FY2025 obligations were down 63.8% from $6.4 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $7.5 million a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2019, at $20.4 million. In total, $77.1 million was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.

The agency that managed the most aid for Argentina in FY2025 was the Department of Defense ($1.3 million, 58.1% of the total). By sector, the largest was Peace and Security ($2.1 million, 92.8%). That sector includes: Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform; Counter-Terrorism; Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); Conflict Mitigation and Reconciliation. ForeignAssistance.gov classified $2.1 million (92.8%) as military assistance and the rest as economic assistance.

For FY2026, $60,799 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 Argentina itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the Western Hemisphere page).

US aid to Argentina by year

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Program Support reporting for FY2025 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2025: $2.3 million against a FY2022–24 average of $7.3 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2025: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency, through quarter 4.)

Argentina: $2.3M in FY2025, against a peak of $20M in FY2019

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
$0$10M$20M$30MFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$2.3M$0$10M$20M$30M'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$2.3M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearUSAIDState DepartmentDefense DepartmentOther agenciesTotal obligatedDisbursedPer personRank
FY2015$0$676,042$0$1.2M$1.9M$1.7M$0.04139
FY2016$0$2.2M$5,350$248,410$2.4M$6.2M$0.06136
FY2017$0$835,856$16,184$4.4M$5.3M$2.6M$0.12123
FY2018$0$1.1M$230,803$3.6M$4.9M$5.2M$0.11117
FY2019$0$9.0M$3.7M$7.7M$20.4M$8.0M$0.45112
FY2020$0$10.0M$256,509$2.3M$12.5M$7.5M$0.28119
FY2021$0$2.5M$533,626$2.7M$5.7M$7.0M$0.12126
FY2022$0$6.5M$113,799$2.2M$8.8M$6.7M$0.19124
FY2023$0$3.2M$1.1M$2.3M$6.6M$9.1M$0.15121
FY2024$0$3.9M$1.3M$1.1M$6.4M$12.1M$0.14123
FY2025$0$772,942$1.3M$194,217$2.3M$8.4M$0.05121
FY2026*$0$94$0$60,705$60,799$454,547$0.0097

B = billion, M = million. Agency columns and the total are obligations (money committed); "disbursed" is money actually paid out in that year, which can include payments on earlier commitments. * FY2026 is incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov quarterly and with a lag. Negative amounts are net de-obligations.

Source: ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State).

Who manages it and what it pays for, FY2025

By managing agency

Managing agencyFY2025Share
Department of Defense$1.3 million58.1%
Department of State$772,94233.5%
Department of Energy$187,1758.1%
Department of Transportation$7,0420.3%

By sector

SectorFY2025Share
Peace and Security$2.1 million92.8%
Economic Development$194,2178.4%

Largest program areas

Program areaFY2025Share
Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform$2.1 million92.8%
Trade and Investment$185,0008.0%
Infrastructure$9,2170.4%

Sectors over the last five years

SectorFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Peace and Security$1.6M$4.7M$2.3M$3.2M$2.1M
Program Support$1.2M$1.9M$1.7M$1.3M-$27,058
Economic Development$2.2M$1.1M$1.7M$392,331$194,217
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$294,780$395,100$667,500$742,900$0
Environment$200,815$378,640$363,097$410,785$0
Education and Social Services$163,300$323,500-$123,099$374,100$0

Who carried out the work, FY2025

Implementing partners by type, as reported to ForeignAssistance.gov. “Government” includes US agencies that carry out programs themselves and partner-country governments.

Partner typeFY2025Share
Government$2.3 million101.2%

How Argentina compares

Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025

US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.

Turkmenistan$2.9 million
Solomon Islands$2.7 million
Argentina (this page)$2.3 million
Mauritania$1.9 million
Croatia$1.8 million

Questions and answers

How much foreign aid does the US give Argentina?
$2.3 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $8.4 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $77.1 million.
How much US aid does Argentina get per person?
About $0.05 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 45,851,378.
How much USAID funding goes to Argentina?
USAID managed $0 of the FY2025 total (0.0%). The Department of Defense managed the most ($1.3 million).
What is US aid to Argentina spent on?
In FY2025, by sector: Peace and Security $2.1 million (92.8%); Economic Development $194,217 (8.4%).
Has US aid to Argentina gone up or down?
FY2025: $2.3 million; FY2024: $6.4 million (down 63.8%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2019 ($20.4 million).
Does the US give military aid to Argentina?
In FY2025, $2.1 million (92.8%) of obligations for Argentina was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov, and the Department of Defense managed $1.3 million.

Sources and notes

  1. 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.
  2. Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators, SP.POP.TOTL (updated 2026-07-13), CC BY 4.0.
  3. Per-person figures divide the fiscal-year obligations by the World Bank population for the same calendar year.
  4. How the figures are built, and what they leave out: method and caveats.