Adjusted savings: gross savings (% of GNI) - Country Ranking - Africa
Definition: Gross savings are the difference between gross national income and public and private consumption, plus net current transfers.
Source: World Bank national accounts data files.
See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison
| Rank | Country | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libya | 66.80 | 2008 |
| 2 | Sudan | 58.13 | 2019 |
| 3 | Gabon | 41.85 | 2015 |
| 4 | Zambia | 40.43 | 2019 |
| 5 | Algeria | 39.83 | 2019 |
| 6 | Cabo Verde | 35.76 | 2019 |
| 7 | Mauritania | 33.90 | 2019 |
| 8 | Ethiopia | 33.31 | 2018 |
| 9 | Botswana | 32.10 | 2019 |
| 10 | Tanzania | 31.32 | 2017 |
| 11 | Morocco | 28.40 | 2019 |
| 12 | Ghana | 25.55 | 2019 |
| 13 | Angola | 25.50 | 2019 |
| 14 | Djibouti | 24.80 | 2018 |
| 15 | Congo | 24.40 | 2016 |
| 16 | Senegal | 24.03 | 2018 |
| 17 | Nigeria | 24.02 | 2019 |
| 18 | Uganda | 22.83 | 2019 |
| 19 | Niger | 22.75 | 2019 |
| 20 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 21.97 | 2019 |
| 21 | Benin | 21.94 | 2019 |
| 22 | Lesotho | 21.83 | 2019 |
| 23 | Togo | 21.59 | 2018 |
| 24 | Mozambique | 18.15 | 2019 |
| 25 | Eswatini | 18.05 | 2019 |
| 26 | Madagascar | 17.91 | 2019 |
| 27 | Cameroon | 17.90 | 2019 |
| 28 | Burkina Faso | 16.91 | 2019 |
| 29 | Mauritius | 16.44 | 2019 |
| 30 | Côte d'Ivoire | 16.29 | 2018 |
| 31 | Mali | 16.03 | 2018 |
| 32 | The Gambia | 16.00 | 2018 |
| 33 | Eritrea | 15.81 | 2000 |
| 34 | Rwanda | 15.60 | 2019 |
| 35 | Central African Republic | 15.47 | 1994 |
| 36 | South Africa | 15.38 | 2019 |
| 37 | Egypt | 15.16 | 2019 |
| 38 | Comoros | 14.01 | 2019 |
| 39 | Chad | 13.50 | 1994 |
| 40 | Seychelles | 12.86 | 2019 |
| 41 | Malawi | 11.20 | 2019 |
| 42 | Tunisia | 8.85 | 2019 |
| 43 | Namibia | 8.84 | 2019 |
| 44 | Guinea-Bissau | 8.83 | 2018 |
| 45 | Kenya | 8.13 | 2019 |
| 46 | Burundi | 4.35 | 2018 |
| 47 | Guinea | 4.33 | 2019 |
| 48 | Zimbabwe | -2.42 | 2017 |
| 49 | Sierra Leone | -4.28 | 2019 |
| 50 | Liberia | -44.20 | 2019 |
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Limitations and Exceptions: Because gross savings is calculated as a residual it includes errors, which may not be offsetting, in its components.
Statistical Concept and Methodology: Gross savings are calculated as a residual from the national accounts by taking the difference between income earned by residents (including income received from abroad and workers' remittances) and their consumption expenditures.
Aggregation method: Weighted average
Periodicity: Annual
