Kuwait's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) was 12.65% in 2019, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 16.15 percentage points from 28.81% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 12.65% | 2019 |
| Five years earlier | 28.81% | 2014 |
| Highest | 45.33% | 2006 |
| Lowest | -166.13% | 1991 |
| Average since 2011 | 22.3% | 2011–2019 |
| First recorded | 8.27% | 1990 |
Over five years it is down 16.15 percentage points from 28.81% in 2014. Since 1990 it is up 4.39 percentage points from 8.27% in 1990. The World Bank has no value for 3 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2019, Kuwait's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) fell 6 percentage points on 2018 (from 18.66% to 12.65%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2018), the average change was +0.84 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 54.53 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 183.82 percentage points in 1992 and the biggest yearly fall was 174.39 percentage points in 1991. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2011 to 2019 the straight-line trend is downward, about 3.37 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 67% of the movement over 9 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
Closest to Kuwait in the 2019 ranking
- Myanmar — 1st of 3: 20.54%
- Burkina Faso — 3rd of 3: 7.61%
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 $1 of human capital. The calculation should also consider private education expenditure, but data are not available for a large number of countries. While extensive, the accounting of natural resource depletion and pollution costs still has some gaps.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 27 values
| Year | Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 12.65 |
| 2018 | 18.66 |
| 2017 | 15.83 |
| 2016 | 7.37 |
| 2015 | 12.22 |
| 2014 | 28.81 |
| 2013 | 33.22 |
| 2012 | 35.47 |
| 2011 | 36.48 |
| 2010 | no data |
| 2009 |
Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in nearby economies
More economic policy & debt data for Kuwait
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$51.74 billion (2025)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$40.65 billion (2025)
- GDP (current US$) — US$157.21 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 48.18 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$32,312 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 9,902 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$193.99 billion (2024)
- GNI (current LCU) — 59.49 billion (2024)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 12,148 (2024)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$41.5 billion (2024)
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Questions people ask
- What is Kuwait's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI)?
- 12.65% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 4.39 percentage points from 8.27% in 1990. The highest value was 45.33% in 2006 and the lowest -166.13% in 1991.
- Is the latest change in adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) unusual for Kuwait?
- In 2019, Kuwait's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) fell 6 percentage points on 2018 (from 18.66% to 12.65%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2018), the average change was +0.84 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 54.53 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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.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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