São Tomé and Principe's gross domestic savings (% of GDP) was -11.3% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 19.39 percentage points from -30.69% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -11.3% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -15.64% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -30.69% | 2015 |
| Highest | -6.23% | 2024 |
| Lowest | -44.93% | 2012 |
| Average since 2016 | -17.26% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -35.37% | 2008 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, São Tomé and Principe's gross domestic savings (% of GDP) fell 5.07 percentage points on 2024 (from -6.23% to -11.3%).
Across the 16 yearly changes before that (2009 to 2024), the average change was +1.82 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.32 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below 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 10.81 percentage points in 2013 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.38 percentage points in 2014. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.8 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 83% 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 -0.29% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 3.19%, against 7.42% 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 2025, São Tomé and Principe had the 131st highest value of the 132 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| São Tomé and Principe | -11.3% | 2025 |
| World | 26.87% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 0.98% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 19.07% | 2025 |
Closest to São Tomé and Principe in the 2025 ranking
- Ukraine — 127th of 132: -5.73%
- West Bank and Gaza — 128th of 132: -7.66%
- Comoros — 129th of 132: -10.44%
- Lesotho — 131st of 132: -33.19%
- Somalia, Fed. Rep. — 132nd of 132: -41.45%
What this measures
Gross domestic savings are calculated as GDP less final consumption expenditure (total consumption). 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 18 values
| Year | Gross domestic savings (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -11.3 |
| 2024 | -6.23 |
| 2023 | -12.28 |
| 2022 | -17.35 |
| 2021 | -17.45 |
| 2020 | -15.64 |
| 2019 | -22.16 |
| 2018 | -23.38 |
| 2017 | -23.38 |
| 2016 | -23.44 |
| 2015 |
Gross domestic savings (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 22.55% (2024)
- Benin — 32.81% (2025)
- Botswana — 22.74% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 22.2% (2025)
- Burundi — 28.27% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 6.03% (2025)
- Cameroon — 13.04% (2025)
- Central African Republic — -4.91% (2025)
- Chad — 33.05% (2025)
- Comoros — -10.44% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for São Tomé and Principe
- GDP (current US$) — US$981.29 million (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 21.28 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$326.78 million (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 4.28 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$4,084 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 88,591 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$1,360 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 17,810 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$1.06 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 23.04 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is São Tomé and Principe's gross domestic savings (% of GDP)?
- -11.3% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2008?
- It is up 24.07 percentage points from -35.37% in 2008. The highest value was -6.23% in 2024 and the lowest -44.93% in 2012.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.GDS.TOTL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); 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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