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Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2011; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation covers 82 countries on 2 measures. Colombia is highest, at 3.8785; Ukraine is lowest, at 0.8410. The middle country reads 1.3524. Against the 2010 compilation, 64 values changed (28 up, 36 down), 18 countries joined, 23 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2011

HighestColombia

3.8785

LowestUkraine

0.8410

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2011 reading3.878513.3877income2011
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2011 reading3.858314.7974income2011
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2011 reading3.839817.3743income2011
4ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2011 reading3.686012.8772income2011
5PanamaPANCentral America · 2011 reading3.524314.2607income2011
6Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa3.052010.1276consumption2011.67
7Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2011 reading2.973311.6248income2011
8Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2011 reading2.81798.8905income2011
9ChileCHLSouth America · 2011 reading2.65987.6462income2011
10BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2011 reading2.597515.1142income2011
11TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2011 reading2.55318.9274consumption2011
12EcuadorECUSouth America · 2011 reading2.549511.3301income2011
13PeruPERSouth America · 2011 reading2.430710.4608income2011
14MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia · 2011 reading2.24148.0626income2011
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2011 reading2.22599.1857consumption2011
16ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2011 reading2.20796.3942consumption2011
17BeninBENWestern Africa2.19626.5914consumption2011.33
18ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2011 reading2.15679.8956income2011
19ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2011 reading2.10687.7856consumption2011
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2011 reading2.09727.5134income2011
21UruguayURYSouth America · 2011 reading2.08188.0236income2011
22IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2011 reading2.01959.5254income2011
23United StatesUSANorthern America · 2011 reading1.96629.2010income2011
24SenegalSENWestern Africa1.89086.8702consumption2011.29
25TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2011 reading1.86107.3959consumption2011

02In Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia3.8785
  2. 2Brazil3.8583
  3. 3Honduras3.8398
  4. 4Paraguay3.6860
  5. 5Panama3.5243

Lowest

  1. 82Ukraine0.8410
  2. 81Slovenia0.8495
  3. 80Norway0.8556
  4. 79Slovakia0.9053
  5. 78Czechia0.9291

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.3524. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • 90/10 ratio (90th ÷ 10th percentile of income or consumption)

    HighestHonduras17.3743

    LowestUkraine3.2215

    Middle country: 5.4575

032010 → 2011

Since the 2010 compilation

What changed between the 2010 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −23countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 64 in both
  • 28 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bolivia+ Brazil+ Chile+ Republic of the Congo+ Algeria+ India+ Iran+ Lebanon+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Guinea-Bissau− Jordan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mexico− Malawi− Nigeria− Nepal− Rwanda− Serbia− São Tomé and Príncipe− Tunisia− Tuvalu− Taiwan− Vietnam− Vanuatu− South Africa− Zambia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2011, from 2011 to 2011.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full
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    For a spreadsheet or code

    82 rows · 4.6 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download palma-ratio-2011-nations-inquiry.csv
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    The publisher’s original

    World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2011). Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2011

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation?

Colombia, at 3.8785, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Palma Ratio, 2011 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation.

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