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Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation covers 79 countries on 2 measures. Brazil is highest, at 3.951; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.745. The middle country reads 1.406. Against the 2016 compilation, 68 values changed (26 up, 42 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestBrazil

3.951

LowestSlovakia

0.745

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, 2017 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.

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Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1BrazilBRASouth America · 2017 reading3.95115.8330income2017
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2017 reading3.42213.5678income2017
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2017 reading3.25415.0023income2017
4HondurasHNDCentral America · 2017 reading3.20414.8729income2017
5ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2017 reading2.9198.3469income2017
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2017 reading2.88810.7314income2017
7ChileCHLSouth America · 2017 reading2.4556.8702income2017
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa2.4389.7901consumption2017.14
9BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2017 reading2.40414.9439income2017
10EcuadorECUSouth America · 2017 reading2.3969.9288income2017
11KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2017 reading2.35320.7400income2017
12ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2017 reading2.3066.4179consumption2017
13TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2017 reading2.2487.5398income2017
14PeruPERSouth America · 2017 reading2.2339.7135income2017
15Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2017 reading2.0826.7703income2017
16DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2017 reading2.0427.8546consumption2017
17ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2017 reading2.0009.5625income2017
18United StatesUSANorthern America · 2017 reading1.9929.4490income2017
19São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2017 reading1.9495.8741consumption2017
20BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2017 reading1.9017.6427income2017
21UruguayURYSouth America · 2017 reading1.8007.0884income2017
22ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2017 reading1.7666.1131consumption2017
23IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2017 reading1.6769.2852income2017
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2017 reading1.6756.3182income2017
25GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2017 reading1.6676.6800consumption2017

02In Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Brazil3.951
  2. 2Colombia3.422
  3. 3Panama3.254
  4. 4Honduras3.204
  5. 5Paraguay2.919

Lowest

  1. 79Slovakia0.745
  2. 78Slovenia0.822
  3. 77Czechia0.860
  4. 76Belarus0.879
  5. 75Moldova0.900

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.406. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestKosovo20.7400

    LowestKyrgyzstan3.3055

    Middle country: 5.8741

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

What changed between the 2016 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −16countries joined / left
  • 68values changed, of 68 in both
  • 26 · 42rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2017, from 2017 to 2017.

  • 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 79 countries has every column.

05The files

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

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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 (2017). Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2017

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation?

Brazil, at 3.951, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2017 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2017 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, 2017 compilation the newest?

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

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