U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker
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About This Tracker
This tracker provides regularly updated information on U.S. government funding for global health. Click through the tabs to view charts on historical trends and funding levels by program area, agency, and bilateral/multilateral breakdown. It also contains charts on the U.S. global health budget within the context of the broader U.S. federal budget and among other donor governments. Finally, the data table can be customized to view detailed global health funding data by fiscal year. You can download the full data here. For questions related to this resource, please contact globalhealthbudget@kff.org.
Definitions
- Regular Appropriations: Funding appropriated annually by Congress through appropriation bills.
- Emergency Supplemental Funding: Additional funding that is provided by Congress in response to public health emergencies or disease outbreaks, such as Zika, Ebola, and COVID-19.
- Bilateral Funding: Country-to-country funding; that which directly funds the implementation of global health efforts in partner countries.
- Multilateral Funding: Funding to international organizations that pool support from multiple countries for one or more areas of global health.
- Discretionary Base Funding: Funding provided through the regular appropriations process that is decided/voted on and provided by Congress annually (as opposed to mandatory funding, which is set by law). Amounts do not include emergency supplemental funding.
- Funding Account: Global health funding that is provided through the Department of State and USAID is provided to certain “accounts” like the Global Health Programs (GHP), Economic Support Fund (ESF), Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia (AEECA), and Development Assistance (DA) accounts.
Sources
KFF analysis of data from the Office of Management and Budget, Agency Congressional Budget Justifications, Congressional Appropriations Bills, and U.S. Foreign Assistance Dashboard.