In order is Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, German, Netherlands, UK, Canada, Belgium, France, US, Japan, Australia, with Norway so far ahead they have a different font color.

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    Some of the non-DAC members you mention are in the article, but agreed the graph is misleading

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      But Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Austria are DAC members and they were still omitted. It’s just a bad job by whoever made that graph.

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        It looks like the graph was added less than a month ago. Image page says the following:

        Uploader preliminarily chose countries with populations above 8.5 million, adding Norway (smaller population) because it had the highest aid rate of all in 2023. Then, the twelve countries with the highest per capita aid rates were included in the final chart.

        If you want to update it I’d say go for it

        Edit: apparently the image was also added to the pages ‘Aid’ and ‘United States foreign aid’ by the same user so… yeah

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          Still doesn’t explain the omission of Austria (9m) or Saudi Arabia (32m).

          I don’t really know how to navigate Wikipedia but the user account seems pretty normal, it was probably just an honest mistake. It seems like they use scripts to make a lot of graphs and maybe some wires got crossed.