Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI)

Definition: Adjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide and particulate emissions damage.

Description: The map below shows how Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) varies by country. The shade of the country corresponds to the magnitude of the indicator. The darker the shade, the higher the value. The country with the highest value in the world is China, with a value of 36.26. The country with the lowest value in the world is Congo, with a value of -49.82.

Source: World Bank staff estimates. The conceptual underpinnings of the savings measure appear in Hamilton and Clemens' ""Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries"" (1999).

See also: Country ranking, Time series comparison

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