Overall savings increased by 5.5% during 1990 through 2000 but this does not hold up when examining private savings which lost ground during the same period.
For example in figure 4.1, although federal government saving increased as a share of GDP by 5.5 percentage points from 1990 to 2000, net national saving increased by only 1.1 percentage points because private saving as a share of GDP decreased by 4.9 percentage points over the same period.