UN CEB Financial Statistics · 2024 accounts
Plan vs Actual
A budget is what an entity plans to spend; expenditure is what it actually spent. This page sums, without adjustment, the source CSVs that the UN System Chief Executives Board (CEB) publishes from member entities' audited accounts.
IATI budgets (2024–2026 plans) and CEB expenditure (single-year accounts) use different reporting systems, coverage and periods. They are therefore placed side by side and never subtracted or divided. The only ratio shown is expenditure ÷ revenue, computed within the same source and year.
- Total UN system expenditure 2024
- $66.04B
- Total UN system revenue 2024
- $68.31B
- Expenditure ÷ revenue
- 96.7%
Expenditure and revenue by year
UN system totals for 2020–2024 as recorded in CEB Financial Statistics.
Expenditure ÷ revenue 89.8%
Expenditure ÷ revenue 91.8%
Expenditure ÷ revenue 90.8%
Expenditure ÷ revenue 101.3%
Expenditure ÷ revenue 96.7%
What the 2024 spending was for
- Humanitarian assistance$27.23B41.2% of total · source label “Humanitarian Assistance”
- Development assistance$21.27B32.2% of total · source label “Development Assistance”
- Global agenda and specialised assistance$8.79B13.3% of total · source label “Global Agenda and Specialised Assistance”
- Peace operations$8.75B13.2% of total · source label “Peace Operations”
Plan and actual, entity by entity
On the left, the 2024–2026 budgets this site collected from IATI (three years combined); on the right, CEB expenditure for 2024 alone. Because the periods and bases differ, a larger figure is not evidence of waste and a smaller one is not evidence of under-delivery. The judgement belongs to world citizens.
| Entity | IATI budget 2024–2026 | CEB spent 2024 | CEB revenue 2024 | Spent ÷ revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
World Food Programme | $31.57B | $9.16B | $10.37B | 88.3% |
UNICEF | $13.59B | $8.51B | $8.61B | 98.9% |
United Nations Development Programme | $5.36B | $5.32B | $5.29B | 100.4% |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | $17.35B | $4.89B | $4.74B | 103.4% |
World Health Organization | $2.76B | $3.76B | $3.17B | 118.6% |
International Organization for Migration (IOM) | $2.16B | $3.67B | $3.71B | 99.0% |
United Nations Office for Project Services | $1.20B | $1.48B | $1.57B | 94.4% |
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East | $18.04B | $1.27B | $1.38B | 92.5% |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) | $482.4M | $848.7M | $916.7M | 92.6% |
UN Environment Programme | $452.5M | $808.1M | $1.08B | 75.0% |
UN Women | $869.6M | $622.8M | $520.5M | 119.6% |
United Nations Industrial Development Organization | $387.6M | $325.0M | $320.5M | 101.4% |
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) Secretariat | $12.4M | $203.7M | $230.9M | 88.2% |
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Not reported as a separate entity in CEB Financial Statistics (consolidated under the UN Secretariat) | $823.3M | — | — | — |
UN Trade and Development Not reported as a separate entity in CEB Financial Statistics (consolidated under the UN Secretariat) | $13.7M | — | — | — |
Entities this site does not cover yet
These entities report expenditure to CEB but publish no IATI budget data, so they do not yet appear in the programme-level views. The coverage gap is stated rather than hidden.
- United Nations Secretariat2024 spent $7.60B
- UN Department of Peace Operations2024 spent $7.34B
- Pan American Health Organization2024 spent $1.12B
- International Atomic Energy Agency2024 spent $779.0M
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime2024 spent $472.4M
- World Intellectual Property Organization2024 spent $436.8M
- International Telecommunication Union2024 spent $246.4M
- International Civil Aviation Organization2024 spent $214.5M
- International Criminal Court2024 spent $203.1M
- World Trade Organization2024 spent $201.6M
- Unitaid2024 spent $177.0M
- CTBTO Preparatory Commission2024 spent $134.0M
Sources and data fingerprints
- Source
- UN CEB Financial Statistics (UN System Chief Executives Board)
- Collected at
- 2026-08-14 09:29 UTC
- Years covered
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Entities recorded
- 48
- Budget data source
- IATI Datastore API
- Unit
- USD millions (as reported)
- expenses_sub_agency.csv36,380 source rowshttps://unsceb.org/assets/data/FS/expenses_sub_agency.csvSHA-256 7002bf4de879051cc9cd23802c4a75dcf3654319732b6d8c376af545a5f757a5
- revenue_sub_agency.csv35,854 source rowshttps://unsceb.org/assets/data/FS/revenue_sub_agency.csvSHA-256 cefdcea7275180712104e29750ed5fae18209e8a1095987fc0acf23f0a0b7ab6
Dataset fingerprint (SHA-256): 886465744c2dded4ba1e0e5fee11f6d219422d0ef9d18fdfd0b6a5b60c83c07a
Download the same source files from the UN CEB data download page and check them yourself.