Lives saved per year by U.S. foreign aid 2025| ��ƽ��

Estimated number of lives saved annually worldwide by U.S. foreign aid as of 2025, by type of aid

Characteristic	Number of lives saved
HIV/AIDS	1,648,000
Emergency/humanitarian relief	549,100
Vaccine-preventable illnesses	502,150
Tuberculosis	306,000
Malaria	292,511

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March 2025

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The Center for Global Development (CGD) made "back-of-the-envelope" estimates for the number of lives saved by U.S. foreign aid worldwide per year and found that U.S. foreign aid prevented almost 1.65 million deaths per year just from HIV/AIDS. Furthermore, the CGD estimated that U.S. foreign aid saved just over half a million lives per year from vaccine-preventable diseases.

In January 2025, President Trump ordered a pause on funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a 90-day review of all U.S. foreign assistance. By the end of March, the review had been completed, 83 percent of USAID programs were terminated, and it was announced that certain USAID functions would be overtaken by the Department of State while all others would be discontinued.

Trump has said that the United States spends too much on foreign aid and accused USAID of being corrupt and a waste of money. However, foreign aid accounts for just one percent of the federal budget. Furthermore, it is predicted that millions of people will die due to the dissolution of USAID, as vulnerable people around the world will no longer be able to access prevention and treatment for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.