The table illustrates information about how much money was saved by people from seven countries in 1990, 2000 and 2008 in a percentage of GDP.
Overall, the initial impression from the table is that Asian countries accumulate noticeably much money than the other countries.
To begin with, among of the Asian countries the highest savings with 43.6 in 1990 and 46.9 in 2000 had Singapore, however in 2008 Singapore was at the second place with 48.3 ceding leadership to China. China in turns, showed the most significant savings increase from 35. 6 in 2000 to 53.2 in 2008. There was a downward trend in South Korea, the percentage declined from 37.7 in 1990 to 31.9 in 2008. India had the lowest amount of saving money among these countries with 23.0 in 1990, 23.8 in 2000 and 18.2 in 2008.
In terms of non-Asian countries there was a downward trend almost in all countries. However the percentage of savings money experienced a fall since 25.3 in 1990 to to 20.2. in 2000, the quantity had recovered and had reached 26.0 by 2008. The percentage of Italy dгорреd from 20.8 in 1990 to 18.2 in 2008. The United States shown the lowest percentage among all of the countries in each given period. Also the proportion fell from 15.3 in 1990 to 12.1 in 2008.
