Burundi: Adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (% of GNI)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2018, Burundi's adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (% of GNI) rose 2.06 percentage points on 2017 (from -19.82% to -17.76%).

Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2017), the average change was −0.19 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.92 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above 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 16.39 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 13.92 percentage points in 2003. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2009 to 2018 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.39 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 43% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

Closest to Burundi in the 2018 ranking

• Senegal — 1st of 5: 16.6%
• Bahrain — 2nd of 5: 6.74%
• United Kingdom — 3rd of 5: 3.29%
• Dominica — 5th of 5: -21.53%

What this measures

Adjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide. This series excludes particulate emissions damage. 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 29 values

Adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in nearby economies

• Angola — 14.04% (2021)
• Benin — 11.67% (2020)
• Botswana — 9% (2021)
• Burkina Faso — 10.08% (2019)
• Cabo Verde — 24.2% (2021)
• Cameroon — -0.24% (2021)
• Comoros — 6.47% (2021)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — -10.16% (2021)
• Congo, Rep.

More economic policy & debt data for Burundi

• General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$694.46 million (2025)
• General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 3.71 trillion (2025)
• General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 20.64% (2025)
• Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$1.72 billion (2025)
• Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 9.17 trillion (2025)
• Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 51.09% (2025)
• Final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$2.41 billion (2025)
• Final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 12.88 trillion (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Burundi's adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (% of GNI)?

-17.76% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1990?

It is down 2.95 percentage points from -14.81% in 1990. The highest value was -10.61% in 1991 and the lowest -45.27% in 2003.

Is the latest change in adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (% of GNI) unusual for Burundi?

In 2018, Burundi's adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (% of GNI) rose 2.06 percentage points on 2017 (from -19.82% to -17.76%). Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2017), the average change was −0.19 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.92 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above 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.ADJ.SVNX.GN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium, 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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