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Data for 1996

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996

1996, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996 covers 121 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 97.750; Solomon Islands is lowest, at -10.537. The middle country reads 20.982. Against 1995, 118 values changed (55 up, 63 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 1996

HighestVenezuela

97.750

LowestSolomon Islands

-10.537

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), 1996, 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 121 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1VenezuelaVENSouth America97.750
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia48.877
3GuineaGINWestern Africa42.387
4IranIRNSouthern Asia40.175
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia39.922
6BahamasBHSCaribbean39.578
7TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa38.699
8ChinaCHNEastern Asia38.581
9MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia37.041
10BotswanaBWASouthern Africa36.913
11South KoreaKOREastern Asia36.058
12GabonGABMiddle Africa35.560
13JapanJPNEastern Asia34.903
14ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia34.604
15MongoliaMNGEastern Asia33.033
16SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe33.020
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe30.116
18OmanOMNWestern Asia30.066
19SeychellesSYCEastern Africa30.053
20NorwayNORNorthern Europe29.491
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia29.022
22BahrainBHRWestern Asia28.419
23IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia27.808
24NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa27.804
25NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe27.564

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Venezuela97.750
  2. 2Singapore48.877
  3. 3Guinea42.387
  4. 4Iran40.175
  5. 5Kuwait39.922

Lowest

  1. 121Solomon Islands-10.537
  2. 120Gambia-3.312
  3. 119Republic of the Congo-0.209
  4. 118Sudan0.727
  5. 117Armenia1.788

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.982. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −1countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 55 · 63rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Japan+ North Macedonia+ Vietnam− Comoros

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 1996.

  • 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 121 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 (1996). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/1996

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996?

Venezuela, at 97.750, of the 121 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996 cover?

121.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1996?

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), 1996 the newest?

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

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