Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2019

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019

2019, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019 covers 160 countries. Kiribati is highest, at 54.369; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at -15.620. The middle country reads 21.893. Against 2018, 159 values changed (76 up, 83 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

Download CSVCite this year

Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 2019

HighestKiribati

54.369

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

-15.620

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), 2019, 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 160 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KiribatiKIRMicronesia54.369
2BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia53.532
3MacauMACEastern Asia46.936
4QatarQATWestern Asia46.151
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia44.695
6ChinaCHNEastern Asia43.293
7NepalNPLSouthern Asia42.188
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia39.987
9ZambiaZMBEastern Africa39.834
10AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa38.471
11BermudaBMUNorthern America38.447
12Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa37.579
13IraqIRQWestern Asia37.350
14TajikistanTJKCentral Asia36.457
15BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia36.354
16SamoaWSMPolynesia35.725
17KuwaitKWTWestern Asia35.689
18San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe35.530
19MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa34.617
20South KoreaKOREastern Asia34.294
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia33.660
22IrelandIRLNorthern Europe33.568
23TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa32.583
24CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia32.578
25Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia32.035

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kiribati54.369
  2. 2Brunei53.532
  3. 3Macau46.936
  4. 4Qatar46.151
  5. 5Timor-Leste44.695

Lowest

  1. 160São Tomé and Príncipe-15.620
  2. 159Lebanon-6.015
  3. 158Palau1.222
  4. 157Sierra Leone3.881
  5. 156Sudan5.113

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.893. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 159values changed, of 159 in both
  • 76 · 83rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya30.890 → 19.081−11.809
  • DR Congo25.101 → 15.438−9.662
  • Vanuatu24.717 → 15.428−9.289
  • Palau7.546 → 1.222−6.323
  • Fiji12.592 → 7.274−5.318
+ Republic of the Congo− Curaçao

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 2019.

  • 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 160 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 (2019). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/2019

0647 held

Other years

07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019?

Kiribati, at 54.369, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019 cover?

160.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2019?

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), 2019 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.