In advance of the 72nd World Health Assembly (20 May 2019 – 28 May 2019), the World Health Organization (WHO) published a document (A72/INF./5, 9 May 2019) entitled, Voluntary contributions by fund and by contributor, 2018. Total voluntary contributions to WHO’s Total General Fund in 2018 amounted to $2,243,377,613 which represents an increase from the 2017 figure of $2,110,685,173.

Contributions to the Fiduciary Fund for 2018 amounted to $56,838,177 which represents an increase from the 2017 figure of $30,852,681. The Fiduciary Fund provides support for programs such as the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Global Health Workforce Alliance, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases, and the WHO Staff Association. The total voluntary contributions to WHO in 2018 amounted to $2,290,914,412, as compared to $2,139,305,475 in 2017 and $1,751,810,509 in 2016. In 2018, WHO received $615,998,108 for outbreak and crisis response; in 2017, WHO received $516,570,787 for outbreak and crisis response.

Here is a non-exhaustive list detailing the sources of voluntary contributions to the WHO General Fund and the size of their respective contributions in 2018.

United States of America: $281,063,159

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: $228,970,196

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: $205,262,406

GAVI Alliance: $158,545,964

Germany: $154,538,249

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA): $135,922,608

Japan: $86,516,036

National Philanthropic Trust (NPT): $85,820,188

Rotary International: $81,429,465

European Commission: $73,242,222

Kuwait: $60,500,000

Sweden: $49,194,558

United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF): $49,176,222

Norway: $41,615,733

Australia: $35,125,160

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): $30,257,691

Canada: $29,643,948

United Arab Emirates: $28,570,861

Republic of Korea: $28,062,789

King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Center, KSrelie: $24,550,428

Democratic Republic of the Congo: $24,091,903

Netherlands: $23,804,389

World Bank: $20,556,661

UNITAID: $19,688,301

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): $18,099,395

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM): $14,769,596 (Note 6. Revenue is recognized under the contributor with whom WHO signs the agreement. In some cases, these funds are from a known contributor and channelledthrough another contributor who is recognized as the donor to WHO. In 2018, approximately US$ 16 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) was paid indirectly to WHO via a Principle Recipient (for example, the health ministry).

Nigeria: $12,895,411

Vital Strategies: #12,102,665

Russian Federation: $12,046,555

Luxembourg: $11,614,063 (Note 5. Contributions from Luxembourg for Categories 2 and 4 are fully flexible and are normally recorded under the Core voluntary contributions account. In 2018, these contributions were recorded as Voluntary Contributions–Core. This will be corrected in 2019.)

Bloomberg Family Foundation: $11,504,000

Switzerland: $11,139,063

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS): $9,698,998

France: $9,352,668

Italy: $8,281,085

Sanofi-Pasteur: $8,100,999

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS): $7,239,275

Wellcome Trust: $6,814,233

Hoffmann-La Roche and Co., Ltd.: $6,624,600

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): 6,504,848

China: $6,315,132

Belgium: $5,203,081

GlaxoSmithKline: $5,482,827

India: $4,834,328

Sanofi Aventis: $3,932,260

Macao SAR, People’s Republic of China: $3,550,385

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): $3,488,060

Seqirus: $3,436,788

Government of Flanders, Belgium: $3,048,188

Carter Center: $3,220,000

Kobe Group (Hyogo Prefecture Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Kobe Steel, Ltd.): $3,000,000

African Development Bank Group: $2,947,651

New Zealand: $2,918,326

Gilead Sciences: $2,841,950

CDC Foundation: $2,769,922

International Organization for Migration (IOM): $2,466,427

Indonesia: $2,350,431

Nippon Foundation: $2,310,000

Lebanon: $2,206,805

KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation: $2,045,388

Ireland: $2,010,577

Kazakhstan: $2,000,000

Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain: $1,940,171

Sindh, Pakistan: $1,664,340

Bayer AG: $1,412,602

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women): $1,251,183

Chad: $1,194,663

Merck & Co., Inc: $1,184,398

Mauritania: $1,169,812

David and Lucile Packard Foundation: $1,000,000

United Nations Peace and Development Trust Fund (UNPD): $971,852

Solomon Islands: $948,776

Fondation Botnar (FB): $917,167

World Vision International: $827,134

Monaco: $797,073

Cameroon: $752,383

Palestine: $677,625

Spain: $656,448

Austria: $654,469

Sierra Leone: $646,761

Senegal: $609,030

World Meteorological Organization (WMO): $608,516

United States Fund for UNICEF: $604,921

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan: $563,896

Burkina Faso: $565,000

Velux Stiftung: $542,169

Finland: $534,179

Novartis: $500,000

Uppsala Monitoring Centre: $500,00

John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation: $470,000

Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF): $442,728

Denka Seikein Co., Ltd.: $417,105

World Food Programme: $386,580

Eritrea: $385,627

United Nations Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD): $380,295

Universita degli Studi di Verona: $378,629

Mali: $363,000

Save the Children UK: $339,045

World Organization for Animal Health (OIE): $329,939

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH): $325,078

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): $310,000

Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo Vaccine Co., Ltd.: $294,427

Eisai Co., Ltd.: $280,000

Métropole Grand Lyon, France: $268,038

Sri Lanka: $253,546

Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, UK: $248,726

University of Bergen: $239,558

Belarus: $232,661

Albania: $232,479

Sightsavers: $221,790

Uppsala University, Sweden: $203,739

Afghanistan: $202,500

Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies Contribution Fund, Inc.: $200,000

World Hepatitis Alliance: $200,000

Madagascar: $197,920

Slovakia: $180,288

University of Oxford: $179,501

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): $178,258

Equatorial Guinea: $114,039

Hong Kong, SAR, People’s Republic of China: $113,857

United Republic of Tanzania: $111,118

University of Lucerne: $100,908

Singapore: $100,000

World Diabetes Foundation: $92,768

International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Association : $93,900

Drug for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi): $88,046

Viet Nam: $79,074

University of Cape Town: $76,958

Zimbabwe: $61,388

Zambia: $49,952

Israel: $38,308

Guinea-Bissau: $37,491

Malaysia: $35,000

Malawi: $21,896

Mexico: $20,000

Ethiopia: $18,900