Botswana's gross savings (% of GNI) was 29.3% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 3.1 percentage points from 32.39% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 29.3% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 24.14% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 32.39% | 2015 |
| Highest | 53.38% | 1988 |
| Lowest | 20.26% | 1975 |
| Average since 2016 | 30.68% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 20.26% | 1975 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Botswana's gross savings (% of GNI) fell 3.25 percentage points on 2024 (from 32.55% to 29.3%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.77 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 9.74 percentage points in 1996 and the biggest yearly fall was 11.36 percentage points in 2009. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Botswana had the 23rd highest value of the 100 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 29.3% | 2025 |
| World | 26.55% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 17.72% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 35.38% | 2024 |
Closest to Botswana in the 2025 ranking
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 19th of 100: 29.79%
- Morocco — 20th of 100: 29.79%
- Uzbekistan — 21st of 100: 29.53%
- Sweden — 23rd of 100: 29.19%
- Honduras — 24th of 100: 29.15%
- Czechia — 25th of 100: 28.99%
What this measures
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 National Income (GNI) which is the total income earned by all residents within an economic territory during an accounting period. It is equal to gross domestic product plus earned income receivable from abroad minus earned income payable abroad.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 51 values
| Year | Gross savings (% of GNI) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 32.55 |
| 2023 | 34.11 |
| 2022 | 31.96 |
| 2021 | 31.16 |
| 2020 | 24.14 |
| 2019 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 29.58 |
| 2017 | 33.65 |
| 2016 | 32.95 |
| 2015 |
Gross savings (% of GNI) in nearby economies
- Angola — 16.96% (2024)
- Benin — 30.55% (2023)
- Burkina Faso — 16.88% (2024)
- Burundi — 43.16% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 21.42% (2025)
- Cameroon — 15.87% (2024)
- Comoros — 11.99% (2023)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 29.79% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — 35.62% (2021)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 17.94% (2024)
- Eswatini — 20.83% (2024)
- Ethiopia
More economic policy & debt data for Botswana
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$6.27 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 84.72 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 31.48% (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$9.12 billion (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 123.17 billion (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 45.77% (2025)
- Final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$15.4 billion (2025)
- Final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 207.88 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Botswana's gross savings (% of GNI)?
- 29.3% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1975?
- It is up 9.04 percentage points from 20.26% in 1975. The highest value was 53.38% in 1988 and the lowest 20.26% in 1975.
- How does Botswana rank?
- 23rd highest of 100 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in gross savings (% of GNI) unusual for Botswana?
- In 2025, Botswana's gross savings (% of GNI) fell 3.25 percentage points on 2024 (from 32.55% to 29.3%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.77 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.GNS.ICTR.GN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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