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Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009

2009, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009 covers 158 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 218.767; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at -30.227. The middle country reads 19.506. Against 2008, 156 values changed (51 up, 105 down), 2 countries joined.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 2009

HighestTimor-Leste

218.767

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

-30.227

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), 2009, 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 158 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia218.767
2VenezuelaVENSouth America98.995
3BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia58.288
4SurinameSURSouth America52.643
5ChinaCHNEastern Asia49.874
6AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa47.952
7MacauMACEastern Asia46.056
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia43.863
9LibyaLBYNorthern Africa43.232
10KuwaitKWTWestern Asia42.926
11AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia40.368
12Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa40.192
13BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia38.976
14PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia37.949
15NepalNPLSouthern Asia37.248
16Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia36.599
17UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia35.822
18IndiaINDSouthern Asia35.617
19MoroccoMARNorthern Africa35.511
20BhutanBTNSouthern Asia35.291
21SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe35.202
22GabonGABMiddle Africa34.478
23MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia33.363
24Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa33.338
25OmanOMNWestern Asia33.154

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste218.767
  2. 2Venezuela98.995
  3. 3Brunei58.288
  4. 4Suriname52.643
  5. 5China49.874

Lowest

  1. 158São Tomé and Príncipe-30.227
  2. 157Côte d’Ivoire-12.235
  3. 156Guinea-5.479
  4. 155Zimbabwe-1.850
  5. 154Montenegro-1.155

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 19.506. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 156values changed, of 156 in both
  • 51 · 105rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Samoa+ Zimbabwe

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 2009.

  • 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 158 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 (2009). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/2009

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009?

Timor-Leste, at 218.767, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009 cover?

158.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2009?

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), 2009 the newest?

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

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