Global Savings Gap: Sweden Tops OECD, U.S. Trails

A Voronoi visualization ranks savings rates across major economies using OECD data, showing Sweden at 16.0% as the OECD’s top saver and more than three times the U.S. rate of 4.9%. Mexico sits around 8.1%, roughly double the U.S., while New Zealand and South Africa have negative savings. The U.S., Canada, and the U.K. cluster near 5%, underscoring a wide global gap in how much households save and what that means for financial resilience.