In 2010 and 2015, about 70.2% of total bilateral ODA was targeted to social and economic infrastructures development, with a sectoral focus on education, health, and transportation identified as priorities in partner countries' development strategies.

Bilateral ODA by Sector (2010-2015)(Commitments, USD million, %)

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Total	675.49	1,053.27	1,454.97	1,449.41	1,809.59	1,623.63	1,752.99	2,238.20	2,378.33	2,311.67
	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)	(100.0%)
Social Infrastructure & Services	403.09	413.01	702.73	406.91	905.81	696.03	768.32	1313.95	967.08	1,119.07
	(59.7%)	(39.2%)	(48.3%)	(28.1%)	(50.1%)	(42.9%)	(43.8%)	(58.7%)	(40.7%)	(48.4%)
Education	135.15	160.92	114.28	141.37	324.4	199.17	127.53	337.05	228.75	260.29
	(20.0%)	(15.3%)	(7.9%)	(9.8%)	(17.9%)	(12.3%)	(7.3%)	(15.1%)	(9.6%)	(11.3%)
Health	38.56	112.02	240.34	151.42	131.31	158.83	187.65	306.96	292.65	273.67
	(5.7%)	(10.6%)	(16.5%)	(10.4%)	(7.3%)	(9.8%)	(10.7%)	(13.7%)	(12.3%)	(11.8%)
Population & Reproductive health	0.5	1.56	20.68	3.77	5.06	3.01	11.04	23.76	5.6	31.99
	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(1.4%)	(0.3%)	(0.3%)	(0.2%)	(0.6%)	(1.1%)	(0.2%)	(1.4%)
Water supply & Sanitation	80.76	74.73	270.42	70.93	283.15	172.13	187.39	365.25	225.35	251.86
	(12.0%)	(7.1%)	(18.6%)	(4.9%)	(15.6%)	(10.6%)	(10.7%)	(16.3%)	(9.5%)	(10.9%)
Government & Civil society	141.61	57.23	43.68	25.88	153.73	143.64	228.42	241.81	167.58	175.83
	(21.0%)	(5.4%)	(3.0%)	(1.8%)	(8.5%)	(8.8%)	(13.0%)	(10.8%)	(7.0%)	(7.6%)
Others	6.51	6.55	13.32	13.56	8.15	19.25	26.29	39.13	47.15	125.44
	(1.0%)	(0.6%)	(0.9%)	(0.9%)	(0.5%)	(1.2%)	(1.5%)	(1.7%)	(2.0%)	(5.4%)
Economic Infrastructure & Services	170.95	402.86	544.77	876.63	610.36	597.45	488.26	563.27	812.93	760.22
	(25.3%)	(38.2%)	(37.4%)	(60.5%)	(33.7%)	(36.8%)	(27.9%)	(25.2%)	(34.2%)	(32.9%)
Transport & Storage	99.54	235.89	268.34	641.19	370.53	315.4	324.78	311.57	771.3	600.89
	(14.7%)	(22.4%)	(18.4%)	(44.2%)	(20.5%)	(19.4%)	(18.5%)	(13.9%)	(32.4%)	(26.0%)
Communications	65.25	88.24	91.53	114.86	49.3	73.22	103.51	87.14	25	46.62
	(9.7%)	(8.4%)	(6.3%)	(7.9%)	(2.7%)	(4.5%)	(5.9%)	(3.9%)	(1.1%)	(2.0%)
Energy	4.98	74.6	182	119.18	184.84	206.12	56.85	159.82	8.84	97.96
	(0.7%)	(7.1%)	(12.5%)	(8.2%)	(10.2%)	(12.7%)	(3.2%)	(7.1%)	(0.4%)	(4.2%)
Banking & Financing Services	0.43	3.12	1.97	0.86	2.6	1.41	1.63	1.51	5.12	9.49
	(0.1%)	(0.3%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.2%)	(0.4%)
Business & Other Services	0.75	1.01	0.93	0.55	3.1	1.32	1.48	3.23	2.66	5.26
	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.0%)	(0.2%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.2%)
Production Sectors	33.5	129.7	78.69	58.51	100.43	159.01	291.15	142.23	256	141.01
	(5.0%)	(12.3%)	(5.4%)	(4.0%)	(5.5%)	(9.8%)	(16.6%)	(6.4%)	(10.8%)	(6.1%)
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing	11.8	107.61	48.93	38.98	91.7	128.81	268.73	115.99	219.19	98.19
	(1.7%)	(10.2%)	(3.4%)	(2.7%)	(5.1%)	(7.9%)	(15.3%)	(5.2%)	(9.2%)	(4.2%)
Industry, Mining, Construction	17.36	12.43	19.59	17.08	6.55	21.96	15.74	16.51	24.64	32.02
	(2.6%)	(1.2%)	(1.3%)	(1.2%)	(0.4%)	(1.4%)	(0.9%)	(0.7%)	(1.0%)	(1.4%)
Trade Policies & Regulations	4.14	5.79	9.65	2.1	1.9	7.81	5.47	8.64	9.55	9.21
	(0.6%)	(0.5%)	(0.7%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.5%)	(0.3%)	(0.4%)	(0.4%)	(0.4%)
Tourism	0.2	3.87	0.52	0.36	0.28	0.43	1.22	1.08	2.61	1.6
	(0.0%)	(0.4%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.1%)	(0.0%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)
Multi-sector/ Cross-cutting	9.16	32.51	25.13	59.21	117.57	58.59	102.63	74.84	149.32	108.29
	(1.4%)	(3.1%)	(1.7%)	(4.1%)	(6.5%)	(3.6%)	(5.9%)	(3.3%)	(6.3%)	(4.7%)
Commodity aid/General Prog. Ass.	0.22	0.34	1.55	0.08	-	1.9	1.98	0.02	1.06	1.99
	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.1%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.1%)	(0.1%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.1%)
Acting relating to debt	-	-	10.33	-	2.36	-	-	-	-	-
	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.7%)	(0.0%)	(0.1%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)	(0.0%)
Humanitarian aid	24.62	35.63	56.08	14.39	20.72	21.21	16.64	36.84	72.92	44.19
	(3.6%)	(3.4%)	(3.9%)	(1.0%)	(1.1%)	(1.3%)	(0.9%)	(1.6%)	(3.1%)	(1.9%)
Administrative costs	25.31	31.54	31.51	27.76	38.39	53.6	59.4	57.26	56.91	65.63
	(3.7%)	(3.0%)	(2.2%)	(1.9%)	(2.1%)	(3.3%)	(3.4%)	(2.6%)	(2.4%)	(2.8%)
Unallocated & Unspecified	8.65	7.69	4.19	5.92	13.94	35.84	24.61	49.8	62.13	71.27
	(1.3%)	(0.7%)	(0.3%)	(0.4%)	(0.8%)	(2.2%)	(1.4%)	(2.2%)	(2.6%)	(3.1%)

* Source: OECD, International Development Statistics Online DB

 

Bilateral ODA By sector (2010-2015)  (Commitments, USD million)

Sectoral Aid Share Of Bilateral ODA (2010-2015)   (Commitments, %)

Korea has made progress in improving sectoral focus in its development cooperation. According to the Mid-term Strategy for 2011-2015, Korea continuously devotes grant aid to sectors such as education, health, governance, agriculture and fisheries, and industry and energy, in order to help partner countries achieve the SDGs and enhance their own growth potential. As for concessional loans, Korea plans to focus on building basic infrastructure which is indispensable for economic growth. To meet the recommendations of the DAC Peer Review in 2012, Korea also streamlined the sectoral focuses. The current CPS identifies only two to three priority sectors for each partner country in terms of division of labor and greater aid effectiveness.