Question

How would you describe the savings rate in america compared with other industrialized countries?

Answer 1

United States’ savings rate is only around 10%, much lower than any other countries. There's some reasoning behind it. In fact, countries with the highest savings rates weren’t necessarily the countries with the highest GDPs. GDP os US is $56,300 per capita but their household savings rate of just 4.9%. Also, in Hungary their GDP is $26,000 while their savings rate of 9.0%. This implies that the money they have isn't place on one nest only or put to savings, rather allocated to a much more important sectors. We should not forget taking into account their purchasing power parity, the rate a currency would have to be converted into another to buy the same amount of goods and services of the country.