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Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981 covers 89 countries. Kuwait is highest, at 71.297; Solomon Islands is lowest, at -124.918. The middle country reads 20.981. Against 1980, 85 values changed (37 up, 48 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 1981

HighestKuwait

71.297

LowestSolomon Islands

-124.918

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), 1981, 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 89 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KuwaitKWTWestern Asia71.297
2BahrainBHRWestern Asia59.976
3GabonGABMiddle Africa48.842
4Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia48.626
5JordanJORWestern Asia42.868
6OmanOMNWestern Asia42.001
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa38.029
8AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa36.887
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe36.499
10BulgariaBGREastern Europe36.063
11SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia35.857
12MaltaMLTSouthern Europe35.119
13TürkiyeTURWestern Asia32.513
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe31.381
15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia30.494
16MadagascarMDGEastern Africa29.484
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe29.276
18BotswanaBWASouthern Africa28.848
19Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia26.774
20South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa26.318
21ParaguayPRYSouth America26.019
22PeruPERSouth America25.413
23MexicoMEXCentral America25.352
24MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia25.244
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.079

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kuwait71.297
  2. 2Bahrain59.976
  3. 3Gabon48.842
  4. 4Saudi Arabia48.626
  5. 5Jordan42.868

Lowest

  1. 89Solomon Islands-124.918
  2. 88Benin-3.252
  3. 87Guyana-2.942
  4. 86Zimbabwe2.181
  5. 85Mauritania2.484

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.981. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −1countries joined / left
  • 85values changed, of 85 in both
  • 37 · 48rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Indonesia+ Mongolia+ Philippines+ Tonga− Iran

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 1981.

  • 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 89 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 (1981). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/1981

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981?

Kuwait, at 71.297, of the 89 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981 cover?

89.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1981?

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), 1981 the newest?

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

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