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Foreign aidSouth and Central AsiaFiscal year 2025

US foreign aid to Kyrgyzstan

The US gave Kyrgyzstan $20.6 million in foreign aid in FY2025: $2.81 per person, 83rd of 173 recipient countries.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated $20.6 million in foreign assistance for Kyrgyzstan and disbursed $38.8 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: $20.6 million against a FY2022–24 average of $51.1 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
$21M
$20.6 million
Per person
$2.81
pop. 7,343,064 (2025)
Rank
83rd
of 173 recipient countries
FY2025 disbursed
$39M
paid out in the year

Kyrgyzstan ranks 83rd 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)Kyrgyzstan $20.6 millionHighestLowest$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Kyrgyzstan $20.6 millionHighestLowest

What the numbers show

FY2025 obligations were down 62.6% from $55.2 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $53.4 million a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2015, at $62.5 million. In total, $554.7 million was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.

The agency that managed the most aid for Kyrgyzstan in FY2025 was the Department of State ($10.3 million, 49.7% of the total). By sector, the largest was Health ($13.5 million, 65.6%). That sector includes: HIV/AIDS; Maternal and Child Health; Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats (PIOET); Malaria. ForeignAssistance.gov classified $618,158 (3.0%) as military assistance and the rest as economic assistance.

For FY2026, $252,435 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 Kyrgyzstan itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the South and Central Asia page).

US aid to Kyrgyzstan 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: $20.6 million against a FY2022–24 average of $51.1 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.)

Kyrgyzstan: $21M in FY2025, against a peak of $62M 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
$0$20M$40M$60M$80MFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$21M$0$20M$40M$60M$80M'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$21M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearUSAIDState DepartmentDefense DepartmentOther agenciesTotal obligatedDisbursedPer personRank
FY2015$33.3M$26.9M$224,216$2.1M$62.5M$61.6M$10.3567
FY2016$37.4M$5.0M$86,131-$48,845$42.4M$60.2M$6.8773
FY2017$39.3M$5.7M$0$17.1M$62.1M$52.5M$9.8570
FY2018$37.9M$3.9M$35,333$17.5M$59.3M$49.8M$9.2172
FY2019$35.7M$13.1M$124,200$2.0M$50.9M$43.6M$7.7282
FY2020$39.3M$7.3M$22,000$3.3M$49.9M$50.0M$7.4283
FY2021$42.4M$8.8M$0$2.3M$53.4M$49.4M$7.8080
FY2022$35.2M$6.0M$0$3.5M$44.8M$54.2M$6.42102
FY2023$42.2M$7.2M$59,419$4.1M$53.5M$66.5M$7.5386
FY2024$44.6M$6.3M$176,241$4.1M$55.2M$55.4M$7.6485
FY2025$7.1M$10.3M$118,158$3.1M$20.6M$38.8M$2.8183
FY2026*-$508,898$628,759$0$132,574$252,435$6.4M$0.0388

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$10.3 million49.7%
U.S. Agency for International Development$7.1 million34.6%
Peace Corps$1.9 million9.4%
Department of Health and Human Services$1.2 million5.7%
Department of Defense$118,1580.6%

By sector

SectorFY2025Share
Health$13.5 million65.6%
Program Support$2.8 million13.6%
Education and Social Services$2.1 million10.3%
Peace and Security$1.6 million7.8%
Economic Development$998,1444.8%

Largest program areas

Program areaFY2025Share
Tuberculosis$5.8 million28.3%
Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats (PIOET)$5.4 million26.2%
Direct Administrative Costs$2.8 million13.6%
Policies, Regulations, and Systems$1.9 million9.4%
HIV/AIDS$1.7 million8.1%
Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform$1.5 million7.3%
Macroeconomic Foundation for Growth$1.0 million4.9%
Health - General$615,7333.0%
Education and Social Services - General$300,0001.5%
Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)$118,1580.6%

Sectors over the last five years

SectorFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Health$12.8M$11.6M$14.4M$15.7M$13.5M
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$15.7M$13.6M$13.4M$16.2M-$446,478
Education and Social Services$6.0M$6.6M$6.7M$6.4M$2.1M
Program Support$5.1M$6.3M$6.7M$6.8M$2.8M
Economic Development$4.4M$3.7M$7.9M$4.9M$998,144
Peace and Security$9.1M$2.9M$4.5M$3.7M$1.6M
Humanitarian Assistance$175,000$0$0$1.5M-$8,248
Environment$201,684$4,000$0$0$0
Multi-sector-$11,981-$13,049-$15,533$0$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$8.9 million43.3%
Government$5.3 million25.8%
Enterprises$3.6 million17.3%
Multilateral$2.5 million12.0%
Universities and Research Institutes$326,3901.6%

How Kyrgyzstan compares

Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025

US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.

Latvia$22.9 million
Serbia$21.2 million
Kyrgyzstan (this page)$20.6 million
Uzbekistan$19.9 million
Papua New Guinea$19.5 million

Questions and answers

How much foreign aid does the US give Kyrgyzstan?
$20.6 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $38.8 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $554.7 million.
How much US aid does Kyrgyzstan get per person?
About $2.81 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 7,343,064.
How much USAID funding goes to Kyrgyzstan?
USAID managed $7.1 million of the FY2025 total (34.6%). The Department of State managed the most ($10.3 million).
What is US aid to Kyrgyzstan spent on?
In FY2025, by sector: Health $13.5 million (65.6%); Program Support $2.8 million (13.6%); Education and Social Services $2.1 million (10.3%); Peace and Security $1.6 million (7.8%).
Has US aid to Kyrgyzstan gone up or down?
FY2025: $20.6 million; FY2024: $55.2 million (down 62.6%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2015 ($62.5 million).
Does the US give military aid to Kyrgyzstan?
In FY2025, $618,158 (3.0%) of obligations for Kyrgyzstan was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov, and the Department of Defense managed $118,158.

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.