COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Afghanistan Gross Savings
Afghanistan gross savings: latest available value for 2020, historical series from 2020, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
NY.GNS.ICTR.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | -2,74 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Savings is an amount that represents the part of disposable income (adjusted for the change in pension entitlements) that is not spent on final consumption. Gross savings are calculated as gross national income less total consumption, plus net transfers. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Source organization: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Metadata fetched: 2026-07-31 04:52:09. Open original metadata response.
Revision history
5 detected changesSource revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.
| Detected | Data year | Previous value | Replacement value | Source | Source update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 08:09:58 | 2020 | -2,74 | -2,74 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-07-31 03:24:31 | 2020 | -2,74 | -2,74 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-07-30 18:57:05 | 2020 | -2,74 | -2,74 | World Bank | not supplied |
| 2026-07-30 18:02:49 | 2020 | -2,74 | -2,74 | World Bank | not supplied |
| 2026-07-30 16:08:55 | 2020 | -2,74 | -2,74 | World Bank | not supplied |
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesAfghanistan recorded -2,74 percent of GDP in 2020, the latest year available in this series.
Across 1 observations from 2020 to 2020, the average was -2,74; the minimum was -2,74 in 2020 and the maximum was -2,74 in 2020.
Afghanistan ranks 164 out of 168 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.
It is also below the available average for the Low income group.
Domestic saving capacity and financing potential.