Of the 100 billion euros that the German federal government reports as “bilateral aid to Ukraine,” only 41.7 billion euros can be classified as actual bilateral aid to Ukraine. This is shown in a new Kiel Policy Brief by the Ukraine Support Tracker team, which has examined this figure in greater detail and broken it down carefully. 35.9 billion euros were spent in Germany, largely on Ukrainian refugees, while 22.0 billion euros represent future commitments for military aid. In addition, the Ukraine Support Tracker’s dataset has been updated. It now includes aid announced through August 2026.
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Team: Nathanael Frey, Ettore Goffi, Federico Mellace, Taro Nishikawa, Christoph Trebesch
Note: This table only covers allocations, where the number of weapons is disclosed publicly. Therefore, the quantity reported here should be interpreted as a lower bound.
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How much aid has Germany given to Ukraine? Mellace, F., Nishikawa, T., Trebesch, C., Frey, N., Goffi, E. PDF
How much aid has Germany given to Ukraine?
Mellace, F., Nishikawa, T., Trebesch, C., Frey, N., Goffi, E.
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World Economy in Autumn 2026: AI boom fuels growth
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Ukraine Support Tracker Data Antezza, A., Bomprezzi, P., Bushnell, K., Dyussimbinov, Y., Frank, A., Frank, P., Franz, L., Kharitonov, I., Kumar, B., Nishikawa, T., Rebinskaya, E., Trebesch, C., Schramm, S., Weiser, L., Schade, C. XLSX
Ukraine Support Tracker Data
Antezza, A., Bomprezzi, P., Bushnell, K., Dyussimbinov, Y., Frank, A., Frank, P., Franz, L., Kharitonov, I., Kumar, B., Nishikawa, T., Rebinskaya, E., Trebesch, C., Schramm, S., Weiser, L., Schade, C.
The Ukraine Support Tariff: How Europe Can Support Ukraine and Weaken Russia Hinz, J., Schularick, M. PDF
The Ukraine Support Tariff: How Europe Can Support Ukraine and Weaken Russia
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Dataset Documentation
3rd Anniversary Report
Research Note (06/2024)
Methodology / Working Paper (02/2023)
The Ukraine Support Tracker lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian support by governments to Ukraine since February 2022. It covers 41 countries, specifically the EU member states, other members of the G7, as well as Australia, South Korea, Turkiye, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, China, Taiwan, India, and Iceland. The database is intended to support a facts-based discussion support to Ukraine.
We focus on government-to-government transfers into Ukraine. Due to a lack of comparable and reliable data, we do not quantify private donations or transfers by international organizations like the Red Cross. For more details see below. We are continuously expanding, correcting, and improving this project. We therefore very much welcome any help to improve the tracker. Feedback and on our paper and database are highly appreciated. You can us at [email protected] or by using our online feedback form .
A main aim of this database to quantify the scale of aid to Ukraine and to make the support measures comparable across donor countries. Much of the discussion on aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war has been anecdotal, while a rigorous quantification has been missing. Our aim is to quantify the support flows by Western governments to Ukraine in millions of Euros, accounting for both financial and in-kind transfers. To do so, we set up a comprehensive database that brings together information from official, government sources, existing lists of Ukraine aid, and reports by renowned news media.
An important challenge is to quantify non-financial transfers , such as in-kind shipments of military equipment, weapons, medicines or foodstuff. In many cases, governments report the value of their in-kind donations in their national currency, so that we can use that number as the baseline value. In other cases, however, governments do not report the value of aid, but only mention the items supplied, e.g., specific weapons or several “tons of foodstuff”. To value these, we draw on a broad range of sources to identify market prices, choosing an upper bound, when possible, e.g., by using the new purchase price even if much of the military equipment is probably used.
The Ukraine Support Tracker lists and quantifies military, financial, and humanitarian aid pledged to Ukraine since January 24, 2022. It covers 41 countries, specifically the EU member states, other members of the G7, as well as Australia, South Korea, Turkiye, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, China, Taiwan, India and Iceland. Also, EU institutions are included as a separate donor. The tracker lists government-to-government support; private donations or those from international organizations such as the IMF are not included in the main database. Flows going into other countries like, for example, Moldova, are not included. The database does not include other types of support , in particular donations by private individuals, companies, churches, or non-governmental organizations. We have also not (yet) systematically collected support by international organizations like the Red Cross or the United Nations, mainly because a lack of systematic data and reporting by most such international organizations.
The Ukraine Support Tracker is constantly being expanded, corrected and improved. Suggestions are very welcome and can be sent to [email protected] or via online feedback form .
Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch +49 (431) 8814-577 [email protected]
Taro Nishikawa +49 (431) 8814-229 [email protected]
Julia Wacket +49 (431) 8814-411 Julia.Wacket@kielinstitut.de
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