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Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2013; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation covers 78 countries on 2 measures. Colombia is highest, at 3.994; Ukraine is lowest, at 0.850. The middle country reads 1.484. Against the 2012 compilation, 66 values changed (38 up, 28 down), 12 countries joined, 21 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2013

HighestColombia

3.994

LowestUkraine

0.850

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Palma Ratio, 2013 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 78 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2013 reading3.99415.7060income2013
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2013 reading3.79313.4548income2013
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2013 reading3.57914.6304income2013
4HondurasHNDCentral America · 2013 reading3.28514.7847income2013
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2013 reading3.02712.0593income2013
6ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2013 reading2.8629.9009income2013
7BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2013 reading2.85316.5221income2013
8Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2013 reading2.8078.4273income2013
9EcuadorECUSouth America · 2013 reading2.68810.1744income2013
10ChileCHLSouth America · 2013 reading2.6547.3784income2013
11SeychellesSYCEastern Africa · 2013 reading2.6216.9074income2013
12RwandaRWAEastern Africa2.4295.9155consumption2013.75
13DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2013 reading2.3239.1776consumption2013
14PeruPERSouth America · 2013 reading2.31310.3630income2013
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2013 reading2.2247.2820income2013
16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia · 2013 reading1.9946.9146income2013
17ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2013 reading1.9689.4668income2013
18RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2013 reading1.9506.0700consumption2013
19United StatesUSANorthern America · 2013 reading1.9378.8988income2013
20UruguayURYSouth America · 2013 reading1.8957.8557income2013
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2013 reading1.8727.2205consumption2013
22IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2013 reading1.8389.0538income2013
23MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2013 reading1.8338.6969consumption2013
24ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2013 reading1.8286.3306consumption2013
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1.8275.5963consumption2013.5

02In Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Colombia3.994
  2. 2Brazil3.793
  3. 3Panama3.579
  4. 4Honduras3.285
  5. 5Costa Rica3.027

Lowest

  1. 78Ukraine0.850
  2. 77Iceland0.879
  3. 76Norway0.905
  4. 75Slovenia0.907
  5. 74Kosovo0.919

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.484. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestBolivia16.5221

    LowestUkraine3.1839

    Middle country: 6.0557

032012 → 2013

Since the 2012 compilation

What changed between the 2012 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −21countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 66 in both
  • 38 · 28rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ United Arab Emirates+ Burundi+ Chile+ Fiji+ Micronesia+ Morocco+ Malaysia+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Seychelles+ Taiwan+ Samoa− Albania− Bhutan− DR Congo− Egypt− Ghana− Guinea− Haiti− Iraq− South Korea− Laos− Sri Lanka− Madagascar− Mexico− Mongolia− Mauritius− Nigeria− Nauru− Philippines− Solomon Islands− 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.

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2013, from 2013 to 2013.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 78 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

    78 rows · 4.4 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download palma-ratio-2013-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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2013). Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2013

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation?

Colombia, at 3.994, of the 78 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2013 compilation cover?

78.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2013 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, 2013 compilation the newest?

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

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