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Data for 1998

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998

1998, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998 covers 121 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 97.047; Kyrgyzstan is lowest, at -7.949. The middle country reads 20.435. Against 1997, 119 values changed (57 up, 62 down), 2 countries joined, 3 left.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 1998

HighestVenezuela

97.047

LowestKyrgyzstan

-7.949

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), 1998, 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), 1998: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1VenezuelaVENSouth America97.047
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia51.350
3Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe41.932
4GuineaGINWestern Africa40.750
5BotswanaBWASouthern Africa40.527
6MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia39.849
7ChinaCHNEastern Asia38.177
8South KoreaKOREastern Asia37.882
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe34.896
10MoroccoMARNorthern Africa34.830
11JapanJPNEastern Asia33.438
12ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia31.744
13MongoliaMNGEastern Asia30.867
14Hong KongHKGEastern Asia30.703
15CzechiaCZEEastern Europe29.735
16PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia29.619
17IranIRNSouthern Asia29.407
18FijiFJIMelanesia28.455
19HondurasHNDCentral America28.242
20NorwayNORNorthern Europe27.977
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe27.645
22MauritiusMUSEastern Africa27.563
23BahamasBHSCaribbean27.552
24TürkiyeTURWestern Asia27.145
25ArubaABWCaribbean27.085

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Venezuela97.047
  2. 2Singapore51.350
  3. 3Faroe Islands41.932
  4. 4Guinea40.750
  5. 5Botswana40.527

Lowest

  1. 121Kyrgyzstan-7.949
  2. 120Vanuatu0.297
  3. 119Burundi0.665
  4. 118Armenia0.756
  5. 117Sierra Leone2.495

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.435. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −3countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 119 in both
  • 57 · 62rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Faroe Islands+ Hong Kong− Gambia− Guinea-Bissau− Greece

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 1998.

  • 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 (1998). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/1998

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998?

Venezuela, at 97.047, of the 121 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998 cover?

121.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1998?

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), 1998 the newest?

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

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