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Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016

2016, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016 covers 164 countries. Brunei is highest, at 56.4116; São Tomé and Príncipe is lowest, at -14.2815. The middle country reads 21.1897. Against 2015, 164 values changed (82 up, 82 down), 2 left.

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Gross Savings (% of GDP) · Data for 2016

HighestBrunei

56.4116

LowestSão Tomé and Príncipe

-14.2815

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), 2016, 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 164 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia56.4116
2MacauMACEastern Asia48.0325
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia45.2357
4QatarQATWestern Asia43.9792
5ChinaCHNEastern Asia43.8679
6AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa39.7662
7BermudaBMUNorthern America39.3198
8KiribatiKIRMicronesia38.5386
9ZambiaZMBEastern Africa37.3565
10BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia37.2803
11South KoreaKOREastern Asia36.2907
12NepalNPLSouthern Asia35.3051
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia35.0548
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe34.7455
15Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia34.4678
16SamoaWSMPolynesia34.1069
17SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe33.9369
18BhutanBTNSouthern Asia32.4979
19TajikistanTJKCentral Asia32.3053
20PanamaPANCentral America32.2509
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa31.7900
22IndiaINDSouthern Asia31.7264
23North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe30.2728
24BotswanaBWASouthern Africa30.1263
25ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia30.0765

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brunei56.4116
  2. 2Macau48.0325
  3. 3Singapore45.2357
  4. 4Qatar43.9792
  5. 5China43.8679

Lowest

  1. 164São Tomé and Príncipe-14.2815
  2. 163Yemen-4.5074
  3. 162Zimbabwe-1.2235
  4. 161Guinea-0.6766
  5. 160Libya1.8361

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.1897. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 164values changed, of 164 in both
  • 82 · 82rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Kyrgyzstan12.1732 → 22.4550+10.2818
  • Uganda16.5792 → 24.1946+7.6154
  • Kenya6.8045 → 13.9554+7.1509
  • Laos10.7474 → 17.6388+6.8914
  • Guinea-7.3850 → -0.6766+6.7084

Fell most

− Gabon− South Sudan

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 2016.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 164 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 (2016). Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-savings/2016

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07Questions

Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gross savings in Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016?

Brunei, at 56.4116, of the 164 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016 cover?

164.

Where can I download Gross Savings (% of GDP), 2016?

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), 2016 the newest?

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

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