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Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999

1999, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999 covers 124 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 98.436; Vanuatu is lowest, at 0.310. The middle country reads 20.612. Against 1998, 120 values changed (53 up, 67 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 1999

HighestVenezuela

98.436

LowestVanuatu

0.310

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999, 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 124 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1VenezuelaVENSouth America98.436
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia48.912
3GuineaGINWestern Africa42.004
4BotswanaBWASouthern Africa39.691
5Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe38.954
6MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia38.306
7IranIRNSouthern Asia36.782
8ChinaCHNEastern Asia36.393
9PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia35.968
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia35.626
11SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe34.785
12BahamasBHSCaribbean33.833
13MongoliaMNGEastern Asia33.438
14LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe33.251
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa32.967
16GabonGABMiddle Africa32.311
17JapanJPNEastern Asia31.675
18Hong KongHKGEastern Asia31.416
19KuwaitKWTWestern Asia31.361
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia30.455
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe29.944
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe29.159
23CzechiaCZEEastern Europe28.322
24RussiaRUSEastern Europe28.246
25NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe27.183

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Venezuela98.436
  2. 2Singapore48.912
  3. 3Guinea42.004
  4. 4Botswana39.691
  5. 5Faroe Islands38.954

Lowest

  1. 124Vanuatu0.310
  2. 123Sierra Leone0.722
  3. 122Burundi2.418
  4. 121Kyrgyzstan2.751
  5. 120Armenia2.834

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.612. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −1countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 120 in both
  • 53 · 67rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Germany+ Greece+ Croatia+ Luxembourg− Mauritania

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.

How values are stored

  • 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 1999.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 124 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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1999). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/1999

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999?

Venezuela, at 98.436, of the 124 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999 cover?

124.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 1999?

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), 1999 the newest?

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

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