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Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries on 2 measures. Kosovo is highest, at 5.121; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.790. The middle country reads 1.359. Against the 2019 compilation, 62 values changed (26 up, 36 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestKosovo

5.121

LowestSlovakia

0.790

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, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading5.12145.503income2020
2ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading4.26521.715income2020
3Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading3.05512.502income2020
4BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading2.9849.611income2020
5EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading2.76512.137income2020
6ChileCHLSouth America · 2020 reading2.6669.145income2020
7MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading2.3707.906income2020
8DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading2.3657.241consumption2020
9PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading2.2809.338income2020
10BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading2.24310.797income2020
11ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2020 reading2.2417.864income2020
12TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2020 reading2.1838.098income2020
13ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2020 reading2.1609.962income2020
14BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2020 reading1.9076.896income2020
15UruguayURYSouth America · 2020 reading1.8717.436income2020
16United StatesUSANorthern America · 2020 reading1.8478.146income2020
17Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2020 reading1.8006.777income2020
18GambiaGMBWestern Africa1.7475.797consumption2020.08
19BurundiBDIEastern Africa1.6395.275consumption2020.15
20IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2020 reading1.6318.590income2020
21ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2020 reading1.6114.970consumption2020
22VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading1.5696.076consumption2020
23KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading1.5205.222consumption2020
24LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2020 reading1.4955.685income2020
25IranIRNSouthern Asia1.4865.648consumption2020.23

02In Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Kosovo5.121
  2. 2Colombia4.265
  3. 3Costa Rica3.055
  4. 4Brazil2.984
  5. 5Ecuador2.765

Lowest

  1. 71Slovakia0.790
  2. 70Slovenia0.819
  3. 69Belarus0.835
  4. 68Moldova0.870
  5. 67Armenia0.874

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.359. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestKosovo45.503

    LowestMoldova3.142

    Middle country: 5.275

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 26 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 71 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

    71 rows · 4.0 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download palma-ratio-2020-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 (2020). Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2020

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation?

Kosovo, at 5.121, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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