Total foreign aid in the budget rises nearly 14 percent, to $18.4 billion in 2006 from $16.2 billion this year.
Global aid for malaria control has been rising, though the resources do not match the scale of the dying, critics say.
In 2002, aid rose again, to $1.1 million.
The total aid for local law enforcement would rise to $350 million, from $150 million.
In the expanding economy of the 1990's, state aid to towns and school districts generally rose to keep pace with inflation.
Between 1989 and 1994, official aid to developing countries rose from $42.6 billion, to $54.5 billion, according to the World Bank.
Senior State Department officials said the aid would rise from $3.5 million this year to at least $10.5 million.
For the second straight year, the board said, aid in the form of grants rose more than loans, reversing a trend over the previous decade.
The total aid for 1997 thus rose to about 230, 000 tonnes of cereal equivalent.
Japan's aid to Africa rose sharply to $278 million in 1985, from $8 million in 1970.
