Newly released World Bank figures: Tunisia's 2025 savings–investment gap is widest in 26 years, at 0.5% versus 15.2% of GDP
Domestic saving provides a thin counterpart to investment spending. The shortfall matters for how an economy finances the resources it puts into future production.
Newly released World Bank figures for 2025 show Tunisia's domestic savings at 0.5% of GDP against investment of 15.2%. The shortfall is the widest in 26 years, marking an unusually large gap in the country's recent history between what the economy saves and what it commits to investment.
Domestic savings measure the income from domestic production left after consumption. Investment measures spending on assets used in production and additions to inventories. Expressing both against gross domestic product, the value of the economy's output, puts saving and investment on a common scale. Read together, the figures show that Tunisia continues to devote part of its output to investment despite retaining very little after consumption.
A low domestic savings rate leaves investment more reliant on money from abroad. The next annual reading can answer whether saving moves closer to investment, or whether this unusually wide separation persists.
Built from 1 statistically detected findings; every figure traces to official multilateral data.
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- 26 — In 2025 Tunisia's shortfall of savings against investment was the widest in 26 years: domestic savings as a share of GDP 0.5% against investment as a share of GDP 15.2%. Source: World Bank — World Development Indicators, World Development Indicators · open the source
- 0.5% — In 2025 Tunisia's shortfall of savings against investment was the widest in 26 years: domestic savings as a share of GDP 0.5% against investment as a share of GDP 15.2%. Source: World Bank — World Development Indicators, World Development Indicators · open the source
- 15.2% — In 2025 Tunisia's shortfall of savings against investment was the widest in 26 years: domestic savings as a share of GDP 0.5% against investment as a share of GDP 15.2%. Source: World Bank — World Development Indicators, World Development Indicators · open the source
- 0.5% — In 2025 Tunisia's shortfall of savings against investment was the widest in 26 years: domestic savings as a share of GDP 0.5% against investment as a share of GDP 15.2%. Source: World Bank — World Development Indicators, World Development Indicators · open the source
- 15.2% — In 2025 Tunisia's shortfall of savings against investment was the widest in 26 years: domestic savings as a share of GDP 0.5% against investment as a share of GDP 15.2%. Source: World Bank — World Development Indicators, World Development Indicators · open the source
- 26 — In 2025 Tunisia's shortfall of savings against investment was the widest in 26 years: domestic savings as a share of GDP 0.5% against investment as a share of GDP 15.2%. Source: World Bank — World Development Indicators, World Development Indicators · open the source