Record · Place
Korea, South
Korea, South had $2.1 billion in federal award obligations in fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending.
That ranks 7 of 228 countries with a figure in FY2025.
Identifiers
- Country code
- KOR
The record
| Obligated · FY2025This is not foreign aid and it does not say who received the money. Place of performance is where the recipient said the work would be carried out, so a contract with an American firm to build something here is in this figure. | $2.1 billion$2,126,787,065 USD |
|---|---|
| Rank among countries · FY2025 | 7 of 228 by obligations |
| Share of all countries · FY2025Of $55.2 billion, which is what every country the publisher reported obligated in FY2025 — 1.0% of the $5.3 trillion federal total for the year. | 3.9% percent |
By fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2023 | $2.1 billion$2,077,349,826 |
| FY2024 | $2.0 billion$1,984,869,213 |
| FY2025 | $2.1 billion$2,126,787,065 |
| FY2026 (in progress) | $2.6 billion$2,623,971,865 |
The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this country was not reported in, not a year of no spending.
The nearest ranks
| Rank | country | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Canada | $3.6 billion$3,611,086,956 |
| 5 | Switzerland | $3.2 billion$3,244,719,972 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | $2.7 billion$2,718,721,585 |
| 7 | Korea, South · this page | $2.1 billion$2,126,787,065 |
| 8 | Kuwait | $1.8 billion$1,798,032,802 |
| 9 | Qatar | $1.3 billion$1,334,487,303 |
| 10 | Australia | $1.0 billion$1,047,027,774 |
What this data cannot show
- An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
- This is not foreign aid and it does not say who received the money. Place of performance is where the recipient said the work would be carried out, so a contract with an American firm to build something here is in this figure.
- This page covers every country the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same download of the publisher’s data, on the date above.
Related
Rankings this appears in
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved October 12, 2026 · this record as JSON
Compiled automatically from USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
Data retrieved