Overview of AID population assistance : FY 1990

These expenditures funded in-country population activities and/or technical assistance in 85 countries in the developing world: small amounts of population information and/or commodities for another 13 developing countries; and worldwide research, demographic surveys, and policy development work. Some of the developing countries which received assistance are large, densely populated countries; others are small island nations. The funding for this worldwide population assistance comes from a variety of A.I.D. accounts. In FY 1990 the Population Account provided most of the funding for population assistance, with substantial amounts also coming from the Development Fund for Africa and the Economic Support Fund. The remaining FY 1990 population expenditures were financed by the Child Survival, Health, and Sahel accounts. The population activities themselves are administered by various parts of the Agency -- the central Office of Population, the four Regional Bureaus, and the USAID Missions. In FY 1990 the A.I.D. Missions and Regional Bureaus funded almost 60 percent of the Agency"s total population expenditures. The central Office of Population provided the remaining 40 percent. This report brings together population expenditure data from the various A.I.D. funding accounts and project sponsors, giving a picture (region-by-region and country-by-country) of A.I.D."s overall population assistance for FY 1990, as well as of subproject activity of the Office of Population and of A.I.D.- funded contraceptives. (Author abstract, modified)