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US foreign aid to Croatia

The US gave Croatia $1.8 million in foreign aid in FY2025: $0.47 per person, 125th of 173 recipient countries.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated $1.8 million in foreign assistance for Croatia and disbursed $2.6 million, according to ForeignAssistance.gov.

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Peace and Security reporting for FY2024–25 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2024: $10.1 million against a FY2021–23 average of $51.1 million; FY2025: $1.8 million against a FY2022–24 average of $53.6 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2024: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency; FY2025: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency, through quarter 4.)
FY2025 obligated
$1.8M
$1.8 million
Per person
$0.47
pop. 3,876,200 (2025)
Rank
125th
of 173 recipient countries
FY2025 disbursed
$2.6M
paid out in the year

Croatia ranks 125th 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)Croatia $1.8 millionHighestLowest$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Croatia $1.8 millionHighestLowest

What the numbers show

FY2025 obligations were down 81.8% from $10.1 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $22.2 million a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2022, at $145.9 million. In total, $223.4 million was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.

The agency that managed the most aid for Croatia in FY2025 was the Department of State ($1.7 million, 93.5% of the total). By sector, the largest was Program Support ($1.3 million, 69.6%). That sector includes: Direct Administrative Costs; Monitoring and Evaluation. ForeignAssistance.gov classified $969,289 (52.7%) as military assistance and the rest as economic assistance.

For FY2026, -$1.1 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 Croatia itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the Europe and Eurasia page).

US aid to Croatia by year

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Peace and Security reporting for FY2024–25 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2024: $10.1 million against a FY2021–23 average of $51.1 million; FY2025: $1.8 million against a FY2022–24 average of $53.6 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2024: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency; FY2025: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency, through quarter 4.)

Croatia: $1.8M in FY2025, against a peak of $146M in FY2022

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$50M$100M$150MFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$1.8M$0$50M$100M$150M'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$1.8M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearUSAIDState DepartmentDefense DepartmentOther agenciesTotal obligatedDisbursedPer personRank
FY2015-$199,089$4.7M$416,518$0$4.9M$5.1M$1.18124
FY2016-$2,017$3.0M$390,393$147,000$3.5M$3.7M$0.86128
FY2017-$54,032$5.1M$19.8M$0$24.8M$24.6M$6.1491
FY2018$0-$264,417$810,664$0$546,247$2.3M$0.14155
FY2019$0$3.5M$9.6M$5,558$13.1M$14.6M$3.32117
FY2020$0$9.7M$1.4M$7,006$11.1M$9.7M$2.84121
FY2021$0$2.6M$153,329$0$2.7M$2.6M$0.70138
FY2022$0$145.6M$251,999$0$145.9M$143.1M$37.8461
FY2023$0$4.7M$101,410$0$4.8M$4.8M$1.24128
FY2024$0$3.3M$6.8M$1,530$10.1M$9.0M$2.61114
FY2025$0$1.7M$119,289$0$1.8M$2.6M$0.47125
FY2026*$0-$1.1M$0$0-$1.1M$720,394––

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 State$1.7 million93.5%
Department of Defense$119,2896.5%

By sector

SectorFY2025Share
Program Support$1.3 million69.6%
Peace and Security$969,28952.7%

Largest program areas

Program areaFY2025Share
Direct Administrative Costs$1.3 million69.6%
Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform$850,00046.2%
Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)$119,2896.5%

Sectors over the last five years

SectorFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Peace and Security$865,477$142.2M$913,575$7.8M$969,289
Program Support$1.2M$3.7M$536,017-$354,793$1.3M
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$600,000$0$3.3M$2.7M-$410,048
Economic Development$0$0$0$1,530$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$2.2 million121.6%

How Croatia compares

Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025

US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.

Argentina$2.3 million
Mauritania$1.9 million
Croatia (this page)$1.8 million
Poland$1.8 million
Bahamas$1.7 million

Questions and answers

How much foreign aid does the US give Croatia?
$1.8 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $2.6 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $223.4 million.
How much US aid does Croatia get per person?
About $0.47 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 3,876,200.
How much USAID funding goes to Croatia?
USAID managed $0 of the FY2025 total (0.0%). The Department of State managed the most ($1.7 million).
What is US aid to Croatia spent on?
In FY2025, by sector: Program Support $1.3 million (69.6%); Peace and Security $969,289 (52.7%).
Has US aid to Croatia gone up or down?
FY2025: $1.8 million; FY2024: $10.1 million (down 81.8%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2022 ($145.9 million).
Does the US give military aid to Croatia?
In FY2025, $969,289 (52.7%) of obligations for Croatia was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov, and the Department of Defense managed $119,289.

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.