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The international community's experiences with conflicts and natural disasters in the 1990s led to big changes in the scope, funding, and profile of humanitarian aid making it much more controversial. During the decade just over 3 million people lost their lives to these events. Conflicts were far more lethal than natural disasters, killing three times as many people. But
natural disasters were far more widespread than conflicts, affecting seven times as many people. In
response, official development assistance for humanitarian aid nearly tripled, from just over $2
billion in 1990 to almost $6 billion in 2000. In most of those years the United States provided
three to four times more humanitarian aid than any other donor.
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