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Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries on 2 measures. Colombia is highest, at 4.2297; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.7630. The middle country reads 1.3455. Against the 2021 compilation, 56 values changed (27 up, 29 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestColombia

4.2297

LowestSlovakia

0.7630

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, 2022 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2022 reading4.229715.5413income2022
2South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa4.002612.4462consumption2022.85
3BrazilBRASouth America · 2022 reading3.598313.2759income2022
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2022 reading3.497011.7713consumption2022
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa3.07928.4997consumption2022.08
6Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2022 reading2.708710.2547income2022
7EcuadorECUSouth America · 2022 reading2.49519.9453income2022
8ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2022 reading2.37188.9510income2022
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2022 reading2.36487.2371income2022
10MexicoMEXCentral America · 2022 reading2.22897.2568income2022
11ChileCHLSouth America · 2022 reading2.20946.9786income2022
12United StatesUSANorthern America · 2022 reading2.02789.5770income2022
13BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2022 reading1.97239.6342income2022
14ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2022 reading1.91658.3431income2022
15UruguayURYSouth America · 2022 reading1.91257.4911income2022
16PeruPERSouth America · 2022 reading1.88947.4811income2022
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2022 reading1.80386.0804consumption2022
18SurinameSURSouth America · 2022 reading1.76057.0341consumption2022
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2022 reading1.72438.3435income2022
20KenyaKENEastern Africa1.71645.3516consumption2022.67
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa1.70756.2339consumption2022.61
22IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2022 reading1.68559.0017income2022
23BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2022 reading1.68487.2036income2022
24ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2022 reading1.65125.4625consumption2022
25KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2022 reading1.621616.1608income2022

02In Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Colombia4.2297
  2. 2South Africa4.0026
  3. 3Brazil3.5983
  4. 4Zambia3.4970
  5. 5Mozambique3.0792

Lowest

  1. 73Slovakia0.7630
  2. 72Slovenia0.8294
  3. 71Syria0.8957
  4. 70Czechia0.8978
  5. 69India0.9021

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.3455. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestKosovo16.1608

    LowestIndia3.0907

    Middle country: 5.7804

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

What changed between the 2021 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 56 in both
  • 27 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan

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 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 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 (2022). Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2022

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation?

Colombia, at 4.2297, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2022 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2022 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, 2022 compilation the newest?

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

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