Graph and download economic data for Personal Saving Rate (PSAVERT) from Jan 1959 to May 2025 about savings, personal, rate, and USA.

Personal savings in the United States reached a value of 975 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, marking a slight increase compared to 2023. Personal savings peaked in 2020 at nearly 2.7 trillion U.S. dollars. Those figures remained very high until 2021. The excess savings during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and other countries were the main reason for that increase, as the measures implemented to contain the spread of the virus had an impact on consumer spending. Saving before and after the 2008 financial crisis During the periods of growth and certain economic stability in the pre-2008 crisis period, there were falling savings rates. People were confident the good times would stay and felt comfortable borrowing money. Credit was easily accessible and widely available, which encouraged people to spend money. However, in times of austerity, people generally tend to their private savings due to a higher economic uncertainty. That was also the case in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Savings and inflation The economic climate of high inflation and rising Federal Reserve interest rates in the U.S. made it increasingly difficult to save money in 2022. Not only does inflation affect the ability of people to save, but reversely, consumer behavior also affects inflation. On the one hand, prices can increase when the production costs are higher. That can be the case, for example, when the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil or other raw materials increases. On the other hand, when people have a lot of savings and the economy is strong, high levels of consumer demand can also increase the final price of products.

Household Saving Rate in the United States decreased to 4.50 percent in May from 4.90 percent in April of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Personal Savings Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Nearly half of people in the United States had 1,000 U.S. dollars or less in their saving accounts. Meanwhile, 14 percent of respondents had at least 20,000 U.S. dollars in their savings accounts, and 22 percent with amounts between 1,001 and 5,000 U.S. dollars.

Graph and download economic data for Personal Saving (PSAVE) from Q1 1947 to Q2 2025 about savings, personal, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Personal Saving for United States (Q1091BUSQ027SNBR) from Q1 1946 to Q3 1966 about savings, personal, and USA.

In December 2024, the personal saving rate in the United States amounted to 3.8 percent. That was slightly lower figure than a year earlier. The personal saving rate is calculated as the ratio of personal savings to disposable personal income. Within the topic of personal savings in the U.S., there are different goals and reasons for saving. What are personal savings? Saving refers to strategies of accumulating capital for future use by either not spending a part of one’s income or cutting down on certain costs. Saved money may be preserved as cash, put on a deposit account, or invested in various financial instruments. Investing usually incorporates some level of risk which means that part of the invested money can be gone. An example of a relatively safe investment would be saving bonds, such as the debt securities issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Saving trends in the U.S. and abroad Looking at the personal saving rate in the United States throughout the past decades, it can be observed that savings had been decreasing until the mid-2000s, and they increased after the 2008 financial crisis. Still, the largest savings rates were reached in 2020 and 2021. The reason for that increase in the savings rate that year might be related to the measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The value of personal savings in the United Kingdom has also followed a similar trend. Although events like the COVID-19 pandemic may have affect many countries in a similar way, the ability to save, as well as the average savings as a share of personal income across countries can vary significantly depending on multiple factors affecting each territory.

The overall value of household savings in the United States increased in 2023, after it fluctuated a lot between in 2020 and 2022. Household savings peaked in 2020, when they amounted to 2.7 trillion U.S. dollars, which was a very strong increase compared to the previous year. The personal savings as a share of disposable income in the U.S. also peaked in 2020 and 2021.

In the 1st quarter of 2025, personal savings amounted to 3.97 percent of the disposable income in the United States. The personal savings rate peaked in 2020, when U.S. households saved on average over 15 percent of their income. After that, it has remained between three and five percent. Savings during recessions During recessions, households often tend to increase their savings due to economic uncertainty and to compensate for any possible loss of income, which could occur, for example, in the case of falling into unemployment. For example, as seen in this statistic, the savings rate increased noticeably between 2007 and 2012, coinciding with a period of crisis. However, there are also factors that affect the amount of money that households can manage to set aside, such as inflation. Saving can be particularly difficult during periods when the inflation rate has been higher than the growth rates of wages. Savings accounts The value of savings deposits and other checkable deposits in the U.S. amounted to roughly 11 trillion U.S. dollars in early 2025, even after a significant fall in the amount of money placed in those types of instruments. In other words, savings accounts are a type of financial asset that is very widely used among households to save money. Nevertheless, interest rates of savings’ accounts differ a lot from one financial institution to another. Some of the lesser-known online banks had the highest interest rates, while the major banks often offered lower interest rates.

Graph and download economic data for Net saving (W201RC1Q027SBEA) from Q1 1947 to Q1 2025 about savings, Net, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Personal Saving (PMSAVE) from Jan 1959 to May 2025 about savings, personal, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Private Saving (GPSAVE) from Q1 1947 to Q1 2025 about savings, gross, private, GDP, and USA.

This data collection contains information on annual savings and dissavings by households in the United States during 1917-1919, as well as data on the use of merchant or installment credit. Savings variables include purchases of Liberty Bonds, municipal bonds, War Savings Stamps, and Postal Savings Stamps, accumulations of cash in checking accounts, loan associations, savings accounts, and Christmas clubs, contributions to pension funds, payments on bills for tuition, fuel, medical care, groceries, and back taxes, investments in real estate and livestock, and purchases of stocks in various types of companies. Dissaving variables include amounts owed for tuition, clothes, medical care, car accessories, jewelry, rent, taxes, union dues, books, and insurance premiums, withdrawals from savings, amounts borrowed from employers, banks, loan associations, and friends, and sales of land, homes, furnishings, buggies, jewelry, and art work.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Saving (GSAVE) from Q1 1947 to Q1 2025 about savings, gross, GDP, and USA.

In 2022, approximately 39 percent of children from eight to fourteen years old owned a savings account in the United States. One of the least popular financial instruments for children to own were cryptocurrencies and digital assets at around five percent. Meanwhile, 29 percent of children had piggy banks. When focusing on their parents, 401(k) plans were the most popular type of retirement savings accounts in the U.S.

The average for 2022 based on 14 countries was 407.53 billion U.S. dollars. The highest value was in the USA: 4791.08 billion U.S. dollars and the lowest value was in Belize: 0.54 billion U.S. dollars. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

This dataset provides values for PERSONAL SAVINGS reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Graph and download economic data for Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income (A072RC1Q156SBEA) from Q1 1947 to Q2 2025 about disposable, savings, personal income, percent, personal, income, GDP, and USA.

The average for 2023 based on 9 countries was 21.75 percent. The highest value was in Nicaragua: 30.22 percent and the lowest value was in Costa Rica: 12.63 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Graph and download economic data for Household saving (W398RC1A027NBEA) from 1992 to 2023 about savings, households, GDP, and USA.