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Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2016; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation covers 84 countries on 2 measures. Eswatini is highest, at 4.079; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.836. The middle country reads 1.355. Against the 2015 compilation, 65 values changed (25 up, 40 down), 19 countries joined, 22 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2016

HighestEswatini

4.079

LowestSlovakia

0.836

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, 2016 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa4.07912.450consumption2016.17
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2016 reading3.95015.152income2016
3ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2016 reading3.59114.291income2016
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2016 reading3.34715.762income2016
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2016 reading3.30316.966income2016
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2016 reading2.97711.308income2016
7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2016 reading2.8469.629income2016
8MexicoMEXCentral America · 2016 reading2.6728.292income2016
9Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2016 reading2.5428.916income2016
10BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2016 reading2.48616.748income2016
11EcuadorECUSouth America · 2016 reading2.43410.152income2016
12MalawiMWIEastern Africa2.3495.133consumption2016.31
13South SudanSSDEastern Africa2.2799.177consumption2016.5
14PeruPERSouth America · 2016 reading2.27110.026income2016
15GhanaGHAWestern Africa2.25210.159consumption2016.75
16RwandaRWAEastern Africa2.2506.236consumption2016.77
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa2.1426.177consumption2016.5
18ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2016 reading2.1069.662income2016
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2016 reading2.0497.328consumption2016
20United StatesUSANorthern America · 2016 reading1.9829.231income2016
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2016 reading1.9169.122income2016
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2016 reading1.8566.882income2016
23UruguayURYSouth America · 2016 reading1.8227.367income2016
24Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2016 reading1.8164.906consumption2016
25IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2016 reading1.7628.890income2016

02In Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Eswatini4.079
  2. 2Brazil3.950
  3. 3Colombia3.591
  4. 4Panama3.347
  5. 5Honduras3.303

Lowest

  1. 84Slovakia0.836
  2. 83Slovenia0.844
  3. 82Ukraine0.866
  4. 81Belarus0.874
  5. 80Czechia0.888

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.355. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestHonduras16.966

    LowestUkraine3.222

    Middle country: 5.521

032015 → 2016

Since the 2015 compilation

What changed between the 2015 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −22countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 25 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Botswana− Chile− Côte d’Ivoire− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Kenya− Saint Lucia− Myanmar− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Togo− Tajikistan− Tonga− Tunisia− 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.

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2016, from 2016 to 2016.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 84 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
  • .csv

    For a spreadsheet or code

    84 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-2016-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 (2016). Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2016

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation?

Eswatini, at 4.079, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2016 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2016 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, 2016 compilation the newest?

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

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