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Data for 2003

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003

2003, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003 covers 136 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 97.4077; Lebanon is lowest, at -16.3590. The middle country reads 21.2460. Against 2002, 134 values changed (73 up, 61 down), 2 countries joined.

Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 2003

HighestVenezuela

97.4077

LowestLebanon

-16.3590

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), 2003, 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 136 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1VenezuelaVENSouth America97.4077
2BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia56.9479
3LibyaLBYNorthern Africa49.3117
4GuineaGINWestern Africa44.5745
5MacauMACEastern Asia44.2527
6ChinaCHNEastern Asia42.1609
7SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia39.3988
8MoroccoMARNorthern Africa39.2281
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe37.4533
10KuwaitKWTWestern Asia36.3063
11BotswanaBWASouthern Africa35.6783
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia35.6100
13OmanOMNWestern Asia35.2636
14MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia34.8527
15Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia33.8705
16Hong KongHKGEastern Asia33.1658
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia33.0859
18GabonGABMiddle Africa32.7284
19JordanJORWestern Asia32.5951
20SudanSDNNorthern Africa31.8993
21VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia31.4932
22BahamasBHSCaribbean31.2023
23NorwayNORNorthern Europe30.7811
24Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa30.7416
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia30.4710

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Venezuela97.4077
  2. 2Brunei56.9479
  3. 3Libya49.3117
  4. 4Guinea44.5745
  5. 5Macau44.2527

Lowest

  1. 136Lebanon-16.3590
  2. 135Sierra Leone-1.1469
  3. 134Palestine1.5283
  4. 133Comoros4.4258
  5. 132Bosnia and Herzegovina5.0008

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.2460. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 134values changed, of 134 in both
  • 73 · 61rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Comoros+ Gambia

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 2003.

  • 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 136 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 (2003). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/2003

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003?

Venezuela, at 97.4077, of the 136 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003 cover?

136.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2003?

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), 2003 the newest?

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

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