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US foreign aid to Mongolia

The US gave Mongolia $16.1 million in foreign aid in FY2025: $4.51 per person, 88th of 173 recipient countries.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated $16.1 million in foreign assistance for Mongolia and disbursed $83.8 million, according to ForeignAssistance.gov.

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Health reporting for FY2024 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2024: $9.9 million against a FY2021–23 average of $126.1 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2024: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency.)
FY2025 obligated
$16M
$16.1 million
Per person
$4.51
pop. 3,568,978 (2025)
Rank
88th
of 173 recipient countries
FY2025 disbursed
$84M
paid out in the year

Mongolia ranks 88th 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)Mongolia $16.1 millionHighestLowest$0$1B$2B$3B$4BUkraine $18.0 billion (axis cut)Mongolia $16.1 millionHighestLowest

What the numbers show

FY2025 obligations were up 62.5% from $9.9 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $54.8 million a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2021, at $339.8 million. In total, $564.3 million was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.

The agency that managed the most aid for Mongolia in FY2025 was the Department of State ($10.5 million, 65.0% of the total). By sector, the largest was Health ($6.7 million, 41.9%). That sector includes: HIV/AIDS; Maternal and Child Health; Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats (PIOET); Malaria. ForeignAssistance.gov classified $4.9 million (30.7%) as military assistance and the rest as economic assistance.

For FY2026, $346,714 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 Mongolia itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the East Asia and Oceania page).

US aid to Mongolia by year

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Health reporting for FY2024 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2024: $9.9 million against a FY2021–23 average of $126.1 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2024: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency.)

Mongolia: $16M in FY2025, against a peak of $340M in FY2021

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$100M$200M$300M$400MFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$16M$0$100M$200M$300M$400M'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$16M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearUSAIDState DepartmentDefense DepartmentOther agenciesTotal obligatedDisbursedPer personRank
FY2015$3.4M$3.9M$552,970$4.4M$12.3M$15.0M$4.07106
FY2016$5.4M$3.4M$162,454$5.1M$14.1M$10.6M$4.56109
FY2017$1.4M$5.9M$0$16.6M$23.9M$15.2M$7.5993
FY2018$4.2M$7.3M$8,700$34.1M$45.5M$20.6M$14.1982
FY2019$2.1M$4.9M$14.9M$4.9M$26.8M$33.4M$8.21104
FY2020$12.5M$17.7M$56,820$7.0M$37.3M$38.4M$11.2091
FY2021$7.7M$7.3M$0$324.8M$339.8M$60.2M$100.4426
FY2022$9.0M$5.5M$0$3.4M$17.9M$53.4M$5.23114
FY2023$6.7M$10.8M$0$3.1M$20.6M$82.2M$5.92107
FY2024$10.3M-$4.0M$0$3.6M$9.9M$131.2M$2.81115
FY2025$3.0M$10.5M$0$2.6M$16.1M$83.8M$4.5188
FY2026*-$13,607-$190,209$0$550,530$346,714$42.2M$0.1086

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$10.5 million65.0%
U.S. Agency for International Development$3.0 million18.6%
Peace Corps$2.3 million14.3%
Millennium Challenge Corporation$317,0622.0%
Department of Energy$12,9410.1%
Department of the Treasury$1730.0%

By sector

SectorFY2025Share
Health$6.7 million41.9%
Peace and Security$6.0 million37.2%
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$4.0 million25.0%
Education and Social Services$2.3 million14.3%
Economic Development$12,9410.1%

Largest program areas

Program areaFY2025Share
Water Supply and Sanitation$5.4 million33.8%
Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform$5.0 million31.1%
Good Governance$2.9 million17.9%
Policies, Regulations, and Systems$2.3 million14.3%
Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats (PIOET)$1.3 million8.1%
Civil Society$1.2 million7.4%
Transnational Crime$988,9936.1%
Monitoring and Evaluation$225,6591.4%
Infrastructure$12,9410.1%

Sectors over the last five years

SectorFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Health$286.6M$528,076$1.1M$7.3M$6.7M
Program Support$42.0M$2.8M$44,932-$3.1M-$3.0M
Peace and Security$5.6M$4.2M$11.3M-$4.9M$6.0M
Economic Development$1.4M$5.7M$3.9M$6.9M$12,941
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance$2.1M$2.7M$2.5M$1.1M$4.0M
Education and Social Services$1.1M$1.2M$1.6M$2.3M$2.3M
Environment$1.0M$781,132$104,213$80,000$0
Humanitarian Assistance$0$0-$20,085$218,880$0
Multi-sector$0$0-$25,153$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
Government$9.3 million57.9%
NGO$4.6 million28.6%
Multilateral$1.5 million9.3%
Enterprises$673,0004.2%

How Mongolia compares

Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025

US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.

Central African Republic$18.4 million
Turkey$16.2 million
Mongolia (this page)$16.1 million
Kazakhstan$15.8 million
Djibouti$14.1 million

Questions and answers

How much foreign aid does the US give Mongolia?
$16.1 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $83.8 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $564.3 million.
How much US aid does Mongolia get per person?
About $4.51 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 3,568,978.
How much USAID funding goes to Mongolia?
USAID managed $3.0 million of the FY2025 total (18.6%). The Department of State managed the most ($10.5 million).
What is US aid to Mongolia spent on?
In FY2025, by sector: Health $6.7 million (41.9%); Peace and Security $6.0 million (37.2%); Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance $4.0 million (25.0%); Education and Social Services $2.3 million (14.3%).
Has US aid to Mongolia gone up or down?
FY2025: $16.1 million; FY2024: $9.9 million (up 62.5%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2021 ($339.8 million).
Does the US give military aid to Mongolia?
In FY2025, $4.9 million (30.7%) of obligations for Mongolia was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov.

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.