Gross savings (% of GDP)
Gross savings as a share of GDP, for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). Savings is the part of disposable income not spent on final consumption; gross savings are calculated as gross national income less total consumption, plus net transfers. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators as the savings leg of the savings-investment identity alongside the connector's gross-capital-formation dataset: savings minus investment is the economy's net lending/net borrowing. China saves the most of the panel every fixture year (42.57% of GDP in 2023) and the UK the least (14.89% in 2023); the USA's 2023 gap - 17.14% savings against 21.57% investment - is a genuine net-borrowing position kept verbatim. Values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: % of GDP.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 26, 2026
- Theme
- finance
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of GDP) |
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title = {{Gross savings (\% of GDP)}},
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publisher = {Datazimuts},
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