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Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries on 2 measures. Colombia is highest, at 4.3171; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.7873. The middle country reads 1.3491. Against the 2020 compilation, 59 values changed (30 up, 29 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestColombia

4.3171

LowestSlovakia

0.7873

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, 2021 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading4.317116.167income2021
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading3.819715.557income2021
3KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading3.505643.675income2021
4PanamaPANCentral America · 2021 reading3.390613.217income2021
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2021 reading2.962910.864income2021
6EcuadorECUSouth America · 2021 reading2.544110.320income2021
7TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2021 reading2.35227.707income2021
8ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2021 reading2.17677.454income2021
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading2.16987.524consumption2021
10ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2021 reading2.11209.214income2021
11CameroonCMRMiddle Africa2.08287.875consumption2021.67
12UruguayURYSouth America · 2021 reading1.94307.247income2021
13BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2021 reading1.93629.253income2021
14MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1.92626.806income2021.46
15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading1.92195.791income2021
16PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading1.86497.376income2021
17JamaicaJAMCaribbean · 2021 reading1.84047.425consumption2021
18United StatesUSANorthern America · 2021 reading1.82147.226income2021
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2021 reading1.75728.368income2021
20BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2021 reading1.74947.817income2021
21KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading1.74645.074consumption2021
22Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2021 reading1.71776.044income2021
23TogoTGOWestern Africa1.66425.603consumption2021.63
24IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2021 reading1.65128.384income2021
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa1.63384.998consumption2021.67

02In Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Colombia4.3171
  2. 2Brazil3.8197
  3. 3Kosovo3.5056
  4. 4Panama3.3906
  5. 5Costa Rica2.9629

Lowest

  1. 82Slovakia0.7873
  2. 81Slovenia0.8292
  3. 80Netherlands0.8920
  4. 79Moldova0.9068
  5. 78Czechia0.9179

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.3491. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestKosovo43.675

    LowestMoldova3.218

    Middle country: 5.226

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 30 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kosovo5.1207 → 3.5056−1.6151
  • Peru2.2802 → 1.8649−0.4153
  • Bolivia2.2431 → 1.9362−0.3069
  • Ecuador2.7645 → 2.5441−0.2204
  • Bulgaria1.9073 → 1.7494−0.1579
+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (2021). Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation?

Colombia, at 4.3171, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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