Gambia, The's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) was 17.84% in 2021, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 34.66 percentage points from -16.82% in 2011.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 17.84% | 2021 |
| Five years earlier | -5.26% | 2016 |
| Ten years earlier | -16.82% | 2011 |
| Highest | 17.84% | 2021 |
| Lowest | -20.16% | 1996 |
| Average since 2012 | -3.6% | 2012–2021 |
| First recorded | 6.98% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2021, Gambia, The's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) rose 10.38 percentage points on 2020 (from 7.46% to 17.84%).
Across the 24 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2020), the average change was +0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.15 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 10.71 percentage points in 1997 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.82 percentage points in 1996. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.95 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 76% 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.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 17.27% for 2024. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2019 to 2021 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 8.55%, against 11.33% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2021, Gambia, The had the 22nd highest value of the 116 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.
Closest to Gambia, The in the 2021 ranking
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 and 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.
Limitations: The exercise treats public education expenditures as an addition to savings. However, because of the wide variability in the effectiveness of public education expenditures, these figures cannot be construed as the value of investments in human capital. A current expenditure of $1 on education does not necessarily yield $1 of human capital. The calculation should also consider private education expenditure, but data are not available for a large number of countries. While extensive, the accounting of natural resource depletion and pollution costs still has some gaps.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 27 values
| Year | Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 17.84 |
| 2020 | 7.46 |
| 2019 | -1.45 |
| 2018 | -3.38 |
| 2017 | -5.78 |
| 2016 | -5.26 |
| 2015 | -4.94 |
| 2014 | -12.42 |
| 2013 | -18.94 |
| 2012 | -9.14 |
| 2011 |
Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in nearby economies
- Angola — 13.4% (2021)
- Benin — 9.41% (2020)
- Botswana — 8.5% (2021)
- Burkina Faso — 7.61% (2019)
- Burundi — -19.76% (2018)
- Cabo Verde — 23.75% (2021)
- Cameroon — -1.61% (2021)
- Comoros — 5.41% (2021)
- Congo, Dem. Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for Gambia, The
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$285.75 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, United Kingdom (current US$) — US$15.6 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$129.96 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$343.86 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$343.86 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$343.86 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$) — US$343.86 million (2023)
- Net ODA received per capita (current US$)
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Questions people ask
- What is Gambia, The's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI)?
- 17.84% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 10.86 percentage points from 6.98% in 1990. The highest value was 17.84% in 2021 and the lowest -20.16% in 1996.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.ADJ.SVNG.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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