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Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980

1980, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980 covers 86 countries. Kuwait is highest, at 69.379; Solomon Islands is lowest, at -125.985. The middle country reads 22.187. Against 1979, 81 values changed (35 up, 46 down), 5 countries joined.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 1980

HighestKuwait

69.379

LowestSolomon Islands

-125.985

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 86 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KuwaitKWTWestern Asia69.379
2BahrainBHRWestern Asia56.972
3Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia53.310
4LesothoLSOSouthern Africa49.560
5GabonGABMiddle Africa47.831
6JordanJORWestern Asia43.792
7AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa39.375
8OmanOMNWestern Asia38.653
9MadagascarMDGEastern Africa37.709
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe35.470
11SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia33.828
12SeychellesSYCEastern Africa33.124
13MaltaMLTSouthern Europe31.115
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe30.776
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe30.410
16South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa30.137
17BulgariaBGREastern Europe29.669
18FijiFJIMelanesia29.463
19PeruPERSouth America29.461
20MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia29.318
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia28.824
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe27.559
23BotswanaBWASouthern Africa27.433
24PortugalPRTSouthern Europe27.376
25ParaguayPRYSouth America26.420

02In 1980

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kuwait69.379
  2. 2Bahrain56.972
  3. 3Saudi Arabia53.310
  4. 4Lesotho49.560
  5. 5Gabon47.831

Lowest

  1. 86Solomon Islands-125.985
  2. 85Zimbabwe-1.620
  3. 84Mauritania-1.042
  4. 83Central African Republic1.606
  5. 82Sierra Leone2.918

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 22.187. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 81values changed, of 81 in both
  • 35 · 46rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bulgaria+ Bahrain+ Comoros+ Fiji+ Solomon Islands

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1980.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 86 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1980). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/1980

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980?

Kuwait, at 69.379, of the 86 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980 cover?

86.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1980 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2024.

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