UN peacekeeping is rarely headline news, but when the Trump Administration announced in March that it was seeking to make cuts of $1 billion in funding for UN peacekeeping, the announcement attracted wide attention.
The United States has agreed to contribute $2.2 billion toward the cost of UN peacekeeping activities this year. That sum represents 28.5 percent of the total UN peacekeeping budget of $7.87 billion. The size of the assessment is determined each year by the UN General Assembly on the basis of a complex formula that takes into consideration a country’s relative economic strength, among other factors. Permanent members of the Security Council – the United States among them – are required to pay an additional share. The formula is agreed to by all UN member states, including the United States.
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