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Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990

1990, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990 covers 102 countries. Belize is highest, at 59.774; Solomon Islands is lowest, at -34.897. The middle country reads 21.667. Against 1989, 98 values changed (48 up, 50 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 1990

HighestBelize

59.774

LowestSolomon Islands

-34.897

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), 1990, 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 102 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BelizeBLZCentral America59.774
2GuineaGINWestern Africa44.591
3BahrainBHRWestern Asia43.872
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia43.735
5BotswanaBWASouthern Africa41.648
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia39.564
7NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa37.817
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe36.989
9TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa36.819
10ChinaCHNEastern Asia36.623
11OmanOMNWestern Asia35.384
12TogoTGOWestern Africa33.196
13ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia32.827
14Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa31.777
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa31.684
16MadagascarMDGEastern Africa31.186
17MaltaMLTSouthern Europe30.757
18MoroccoMARNorthern Africa30.440
19MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia30.383
20VenezuelaVENSouth America29.551
21PortugalPRTSouthern Europe28.003
22NorwayNORNorthern Europe26.960
23MauritiusMUSEastern Africa26.807
24VanuatuVUTMelanesia26.803
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe26.581

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Belize59.774
  2. 2Guinea44.591
  3. 3Bahrain43.872
  4. 4Singapore43.735
  5. 5Botswana41.648

Lowest

  1. 102Solomon Islands-34.897
  2. 101Zimbabwe-1.223
  3. 100Sudan2.062
  4. 99Chad2.322
  5. 98Senegal2.572

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.667. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −1countries joined / left
  • 98values changed, of 98 in both
  • 48 · 50rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Libya+ Namibia+ Romania+ Tanzania− Kuwait

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 1990.

  • 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 102 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 (1990). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/1990

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990?

Belize, at 59.774, of the 102 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990 cover?

102.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1990?

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), 1990 the newest?

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

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