The
formula for assigning general contributions to the U.N. for each
country is ridiculous. While the U.N. Committee on Contributions does provide "an explanation of its methodology for calculating
the scale, it does not provide explicit examples of how it is applied
to all the member states. Nor does it share the raw data used in its
calculations." The Heritage Foundation is on record as being unable to
reproduce the assessments for Bulgaria, China, and Vietnam, suggesting
some political motivations in how the opaque contribution process
occurs.
Since the U.N. was established, the USA has been its largest financial supporter. American contributions constitute 22% of the U.N. regular budget and over 27% of the peacekeeping budget. According to Brett Schaefer at Heritage, "[t]he combined assessment of the 128 least-assessed countries under the regular budget -- two-thirds of the 192 member states assessed under the 2010-2012 scale -- for 2012 is a paltry 1.271 percent of the regular budget and a minuscule 0.4678 percent of the peacekeeping budget."
Since the U.N. was established, the USA has been its largest financial supporter. American contributions constitute 22% of the U.N. regular budget and over 27% of the peacekeeping budget. According to Brett Schaefer at Heritage, "[t]he combined assessment of the 128 least-assessed countries under the regular budget -- two-thirds of the 192 member states assessed under the 2010-2012 scale -- for 2012 is a paltry 1.271 percent of the regular budget and a minuscule 0.4678 percent of the peacekeeping budget."
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