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The 10 Countries That Pay the Most Toward the UN’s Budget |
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Every three years, the UN’s 193 members split the bill for its regular budget by a formula based on national income. The current scale runs from 2025 to 2027. By 1 October, 143 members had paid their 2026 dues in full. The biggest payer was not one of them. |
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Source: UN scale of assessments for 2025–2027 (General Assembly resolution 79/249); UN honour roll, 1 October 2026. Share of the regular budget. |
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| What's Surprising |
The United States is billed 22% of the UN’s regular budget. That is the ceiling. No member can be charged more, and America has sat on the cap since 2001, when it was cut from 25%. China pays 20.004%. The two together cover 42% of the budget. America’s bill for 2026 was $767 million.
By 1 October, 143 of the 193 members had paid 2026 in full. The other nine countries on this chart are among them. Britain and Canada paid on 14 January. Germany paid $182 million on 3 February. Russia paid on 25 March. Japan paid in May. China paid $641 million on 1 September. The United States is not on the list.
Washington sent $725 million for the regular budget in mid-September. Reuters reported that the payment keeps its General Assembly vote safe in 2027. Under Article 19 of the UN Charter, a member that falls two full years behind loses its vote. America still owes the regular budget about $1.3 billion.
| What's Not Surprising |
The bill follows the economy. Each member’s share starts from its national income, then gets adjusted for debt and for low income per person. Big economies get big bills, and small ones get small bills. Ten countries cover 72.3% of the budget. The other 183 split what is left.
China’s climb is the real story on this chart. In 2006, China paid 2.053% and Japan paid 19.468%. China passed Japan in 2019. Today China pays 20.004%, almost three times Japan’s share. Germany, Britain, France and Italy together pay 16.354%. China alone pays more than all four. Russia sits 10th, just above Australia.
At the bottom sits the floor of 0.001%. For Kiribati, that came to $31,790 for 2026. India has 1.4 billion people and pays 1.106%. Saudi Arabia, with a fraction of the people, pays 1.217%. The formula measures income, not headcount.
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$767 million America’s bill for the UN regular budget in 2026. As of 1 October, it was the only top-10 payer that had not paid in full. |
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20× How much China’s share has grown since 2000. It went from 0.995% of the budget to 20.004%. |
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143 of 193 Members that had paid 2026 in full by 1 October. Only 55 paid within the 30-day deadline, which ended on 8 February. |
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0.001% The floor. It is the smallest share any member can be charged. For Kiribati, it came to $31,790 this year. |
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$1.3 billion What the United States still owes the UN regular budget after its $725 million payment in September. |
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The current scale expires at the end of 2027. The UN’s Committee on Contributions drafts the next one, and the General Assembly votes on it in late 2027. If China’s economy keeps outgrowing the rest of the top ten, its share rises again. Closer in, the Fifth Committee negotiates the 2027 budget this autumn, and the size of Washington’s next payment will shape how deep the cuts go. We’ll be watching. |
