Lesotho's gross savings (% of GDP) was 13.59% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 10.91 percentage points from 24.5% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 13.59% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 20.5% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 24.5% | 2015 |
| Highest | 49.56% | 1980 |
| Lowest | 7.41% | 2017 |
| Average since 2016 | 17.3% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 10.61% | 1975 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Lesotho's gross savings (% of GDP) fell 7.75 percentage points on 2024 (from 21.34% to 13.59%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1976 to 2024), the average change was +0.25 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.14 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 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 16.9 percentage points in 1980 and the biggest yearly fall was 13.73 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 12% 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, Lesotho had the 83rd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 13.59% | 2025 |
| World | 26.05% | 2024 |
| Lower middle income | 28.16% | 2025 |
Closest to Lesotho in the 2025 ranking
- Uruguay — 79th of 100: 15.52%
- Pakistan — 80th of 100: 15.23%
- Brazil — 81st of 100: 14.42%
- Luxembourg — 83rd of 100: 13.59%
- Costa Rica — 84th of 100: 13.58%
- Argentina — 85th of 100: 13.43%
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 Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 26 values
| Year | Gross savings (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.59 |
| 2024 | 21.34 |
| 2023 | 21.08 |
| 2022 | 16.36 |
| 2021 | 20.44 |
| 2020 | 20.5 |
| 2019 | 18.21 |
| 2018 | 16.62 |
| 2017 | 7.41 |
| 2016 | 17.47 |
| 2015 |
Gross savings (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 15.88% (2024)
- Benin — 30.27% (2023)
- Botswana — 28.25% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 15.89% (2024)
- Burundi — 43.06% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 21.14% (2025)
- Cameroon — 15.54% (2024)
- Comoros — 12.05% (2023)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 28.69% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — 31.66% (2021)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 17.15% (2024)
- Eswatini
More economic policy & debt data for Lesotho
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$805.47 million (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 7.4 billion (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$1.99 billion (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 21.89 billion (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$840.08 (2025)
- Final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$2.81 billion (2025)
- Final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 29.29 billion (2025)
- Gross national expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
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Questions people ask
- What is Lesotho's gross savings (% of GDP)?
- 13.59% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1975?
- It is up 2.97 percentage points from 10.61% in 1975. The highest value was 49.56% in 1980 and the lowest 7.41% in 2017.
- How does Lesotho rank?
- 83rd highest of 100 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in gross savings (% of GDP) unusual for Lesotho?
- In 2025, Lesotho's gross savings (% of GDP) fell 7.75 percentage points on 2024 (from 21.34% to 13.59%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1976 to 2024), the average change was +0.25 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.14 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 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.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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