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Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries on 2 measures. Brazil is highest, at 4.0927; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.8193. The middle country reads 1.4324. Against the 2017 compilation, 65 values changed (33 up, 32 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestBrazil

4.0927

LowestSlovakia

0.8193

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, 2018 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America · 2018 reading4.092716.366income2018
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2018 reading3.572514.317income2018
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa3.463611.942consumption2018.17
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2018 reading3.134414.110income2018
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading3.107015.550income2018
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2018 reading2.843211.470income2018
7ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2018 reading2.55339.084income2018
8MexicoMEXCentral America · 2018 reading2.53407.976income2018
9EcuadorECUSouth America · 2018 reading2.493410.323income2018
10KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading2.475722.090income2018
11Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2018 reading2.25256.596income2018
12GrenadaGRDCaribbean2.22067.857consumption2018.36
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa2.18775.729consumption2018.5
14BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2018 reading2.117712.058income2018
15TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2018 reading2.11647.600income2018
16TogoTGOWestern Africa2.11637.006consumption2018.43
17PeruPERSouth America · 2018 reading2.11129.167income2018
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading2.08676.186income2018
19United StatesUSANorthern America · 2018 reading2.03869.255income2018
20ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2018 reading2.03459.750income2018
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2018 reading1.97887.852income2018
22MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1.97617.107income2018.46
23TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa1.91095.205consumption2017.92
24BelizeBLZCentral America1.83957.312consumption2018.2
25UruguayURYSouth America · 2018 reading1.81947.141income2018

02In Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Brazil4.0927
  2. 2Colombia3.5725
  3. 3Angola3.4636
  4. 4Panama3.1344
  5. 5Honduras3.1070

Lowest

  1. 94Slovakia0.8193
  2. 93Slovenia0.8485
  3. 92Czechia0.8653
  4. 91Belarus0.8750
  5. 90United Arab Emirates0.8907

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.4324. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestKosovo22.090

    LowestMoldova3.205

    Middle country: 5.449

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 67 in both
  • 33 · 32rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− Zimbabwe

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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 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.

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    Download palma-ratio-2018-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 (2018). Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2018

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation?

Brazil, at 4.0927, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2018 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, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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