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US foreign aid to Armenia

The US gave Armenia $37.2 million in foreign aid in FY2025: $12.05 per person, 70th of 173 recipient countries.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated $37.2 million in foreign assistance for Armenia and disbursed $64.6 million, according to ForeignAssistance.gov.

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance reporting for FY2025 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2025: $37.2 million against a FY2022–24 average of $77.0 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
$37M
$37.2 million
Per person
$12.05
pop. 3,086,700 (2025)
Rank
70th
of 173 recipient countries
FY2025 disbursed
$65M
paid out in the year

Armenia ranks 70th 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)Armenia $37.2 millionHighestLowest$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Armenia $37.2 millionHighestLowest

What the numbers show

FY2025 obligations were down 59.6% from $92.1 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $54.7 million a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2023, at $93.0 million. In total, $584.1 million was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.

The agency that managed the most aid for Armenia in FY2025 was the U.S. Agency for International Development ($27.7 million, 74.4% of the total). By sector, the largest was Economic Development ($13.7 million, 36.9%). That sector includes: Macroeconomic Foundation for Growth; Agriculture; Infrastructure; Private Sector Competitiveness. ForeignAssistance.gov classified $709,797 (1.9%) as military assistance and the rest as economic assistance.

For FY2026, $6.2 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 Armenia itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the Europe and Eurasia page).

US aid to Armenia by year

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance reporting for FY2025 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2025: $37.2 million against a FY2022–24 average of $77.0 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.)

Armenia: $37M in FY2025, against a peak of $93M in FY2023

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$25M$50M$75M$100MFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$37M$0$25M$50M$75M$100M'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$37M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearUSAIDState DepartmentDefense DepartmentOther agenciesTotal obligatedDisbursedPer personRank
FY2015$28.8M$10.7M$9.5M$2.0M$51.0M$36.3M$16.9872
FY2016$14.9M$4.9M$223,850$2.1M$22.2M$45.9M$7.4292
FY2017$21.4M$4.6M$4.3M$2.1M$32.4M$32.5M$10.8686
FY2018$19.4M$3.9M$10.9M$2.1M$36.3M$37.2M$12.2285
FY2019$24.0M$12.3M$4.3M$2.1M$42.7M$34.2M$14.4289
FY2020$35.7M$20.6M$14.0M$2.0M$72.3M$51.4M$24.4171
FY2021$32.2M$22.5M$713,348$3.7M$59.1M$41.2M$19.9574
FY2022$36.2M$7.8M$0$1.8M$45.9M$45.8M$15.4599
FY2023$71.7M$19.0M$0$2.3M$93.0M$68.7M$31.3666
FY2024$61.9M$27.3M$25,788$2.9M$92.1M$81.5M$30.3872
FY2025$27.7M$1.9M$9,797$7.6M$37.2M$64.6M$12.0570
FY2026*-$436,170$5.8M$0$858,387$6.2M$3.0M$2.0141

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
U.S. Agency for International Development$27.7 million74.4%
Department of the Treasury$5.0 million13.4%
Peace Corps$2.4 million6.6%
Department of State$1.9 million5.2%
Department of Energy$145,0000.4%
Department of Defense$9,7970.0%

By sector

SectorFY2025Share
Economic Development$13.7 million36.9%
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$10.5 million28.2%
Program Support$5.6 million15.1%
Multi-sector$5.0 million13.4%
Education and Social Services$2.7 million7.2%
Humanitarian Assistance$995,7362.7%

Largest program areas

Program areaFY2025Share
Private Sector Competitiveness$8.8 million23.6%
Direct Administrative Costs$5.6 million15.1%
Macroeconomic Foundation for Growth$5.0 million13.4%
Multi-sector - Unspecified$5.0 million13.4%
Good Governance$4.9 million13.0%
Political Competition and Consensus-Building$4.2 million11.2%
Rule of Law and Human Rights$3.9 million10.6%
Policies, Regulations, and Systems$2.4 million6.6%
Protection, Assistance and Solutions$996,9812.7%
Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform$700,0001.9%

Sectors over the last five years

SectorFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$22.1M$13.4M$45.2M$26.3M$10.5M
Economic Development$6.4M$13.8M$15.9M$13.4M$13.7M
Program Support$11.8M$10.4M$10.4M$16.1M$5.6M
Peace and Security$4.4M$3.1M$14.1M$22.8M-$1.3M
Humanitarian Assistance$7.6M$41,113$3.3M$8.0M$995,736
Education and Social Services$3.8M$2.2M$4.1M$4.7M$2.7M
Health$2.7M$3.0M$0$649,750$0
Multi-sector-$34,533-$16,813-$7,899$0$5.0M
Environment$247,459$0$0$175,000$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
NGO$15.9 million42.7%
Enterprises$12.1 million32.5%
Multilateral$5.5 million14.7%
Government$5.2 million13.9%

How Armenia compares

Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025

US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.

Lesotho$41.6 million
Eswatini$41.3 million
Armenia (this page)$37.2 million
Botswana$36.6 million
Tajikistan$34.8 million

Questions and answers

How much foreign aid does the US give Armenia?
$37.2 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $64.6 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $584.1 million.
How much US aid does Armenia get per person?
About $12.05 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 3,086,700.
How much USAID funding goes to Armenia?
USAID managed $27.7 million of the FY2025 total (74.4%), more than any other agency.
What is US aid to Armenia spent on?
In FY2025, by sector: Economic Development $13.7 million (36.9%); Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance $10.5 million (28.2%); Program Support $5.6 million (15.1%); Multi-sector $5.0 million (13.4%).
Has US aid to Armenia gone up or down?
FY2025: $37.2 million; FY2024: $92.1 million (down 59.6%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2023 ($93.0 million).
Does the US give military aid to Armenia?
In FY2025, $709,797 (1.9%) of obligations for Armenia was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov, and the Department of Defense managed $9,797.

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.