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Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries on 2 measures. Brazil is highest, at 4.0103; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.7544. The middle country reads 1.2885. Against the 2018 compilation, 67 values changed (29 up, 38 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestBrazil

4.0103

LowestSlovakia

0.7544

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, 2019 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading4.010316.6530income2019
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading3.781615.7600income2019
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa3.27748.7435consumption2019.92
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2019 reading3.247013.6928income2019
5ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading3.18848.0251consumption2019
6HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading2.993214.1483income2019
7Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2019 reading2.870110.7167income2019
8EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading2.533510.3320income2019
9ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2019 reading2.50148.8965income2019
10TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2019 reading2.28778.0499income2019
11ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2019 reading2.225910.4365income2019
12UgandaUGAEastern Africa2.13926.1904consumption2019.64
13Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2019 reading2.05876.6598income2019
14United StatesUSANorthern America · 2019 reading2.05239.2392income2019
15PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading2.02068.6309income2019
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2019 reading2.00889.5977income2019
17BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2019 reading1.87628.0925income2019
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading1.861513.2887income2019
19UruguayURYSouth America · 2019 reading1.82337.1166income2019
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2019 reading1.73826.4700income2019
21MalawiMWIEastern Africa1.73035.3327consumption2019.31
22ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2019 reading1.68965.6342consumption2019
23IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2019 reading1.67949.1453income2019
24Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2019 reading1.66524.7671consumption2019
25IranIRNSouthern Asia1.54425.6208consumption2019.23

02In Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Brazil4.0103
  2. 2Colombia3.7816
  3. 3Mozambique3.2774
  4. 4Panama3.2470
  5. 5Zimbabwe3.1884

Lowest

  1. 79Slovakia0.7544
  2. 78Slovenia0.8361
  3. 77Czechia0.8738
  4. 76Belarus0.8756
  5. 75Moldova0.9132

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.2885. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestBrazil16.6530

    LowestSlovenia3.2770

    Middle country: 5.3327

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 29 · 38rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− 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

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 78 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 1.3805. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

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

  • 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.

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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 (2019). Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2019

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation?

Brazil, at 4.0103, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2019 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, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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