Dataset · World Bank Group
Gross Savings (% of GDP)
47 years, 1978–2024 · 146 countries
Gross savings is what a country has left of its national income after everything it consumed, as a share of GDP. It is the other side of the investment coin: what an economy sets aside rather than spends.
This site holds every year from 1978 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Gross Savings (% of GDP) · the file
- Newest
- Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2024
- Held
- 47 years · 6,072 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0147 years
Every year
Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2024Newest | 146 | −10 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2023 | 156 | +1 −3 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2022 | 158 | −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2021 | 159 | −2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2020 | 161 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019 | 160 | +1 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2018 | 160 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2017 | 160 | +2 −6 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016 | 164 | −2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2015 | 166 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2014 | 165 | +3 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2013 | 162 | +2 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 47 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: gross-savings-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 146 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 146 | 0 | |
Gross savings (% of GDP)gross_savingsHeadline | The headline figure: Gross savings (% of GDP). | Number · up to 14 decimals | -21.128 Timor-Leste47.819 Macaumiddle 22.063 | 146 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03180 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 44 | 46 | 46 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 45 | 44 | 43 | 42 | 38 |
| Americas | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 22 |
| Asia | 40 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 38 |
| Europe | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 40 |
| Oceania | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
| All | 162 | 165 | 166 | 164 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 161 | 159 | 158 | 156 | 146 |
The newest 12 of 47 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
− Aruba
− United Arab Emirates
− Benin
− Bermuda
− Comoros
− Lebanon
− Libya
− Palau
− Senegal
− San Marino - 2023+ United Arab Emirates
− Qatar
− Sudan
− Vanuatu - 2022
− Republic of the Congo - 2021
− Afghanistan
− Togo - 2020+ Afghanistan
- 2019+ Republic of the Congo
− Curaçao - 2017
+ Malawi+ San Marino− Republic of the Congo
− Laos
− New Caledonia
− French Polynesia
− Venezuela
− Yemen - 2016
− Gabon
− South Sudan
Not in this dataset · 44 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Myanmar
Nauru
Nigeria
Niue
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Maarten
SomaliaSomaliland
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Gross Savings (% of GDP) 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
47 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gross-savings-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 14 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (NY.GNS.ICTR.ZS).
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 6, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Gross Savings (% of GDP), via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1978–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. World Development Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Gross Savings (% of GDP) by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Account Ownership at a Financial InstitutionWorld Bank Group · 5 held · 2011–2024
- Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of CreditWorld Bank Group · 1 held · 2025
- Net Official Development Assistance ReceivedOECD Development Assistance Committee · 58 held · 1966–2023
07Questions
Gross Savings (% of GDP): questions and answers
What is the Gross Savings (% of GDP)?
Gross savings is what a country has left of its national income after everything it consumed, as a share of GDP. It is the other side of the investment coin: what an economy sets aside rather than spends.
Which years of the Gross Savings (% of GDP) can I download?
All 47, from 1978 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.