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Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries on 2 measures. Colombia is highest, at 4.193; Slovakia is lowest, at 0.772. The middle country reads 1.332. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (25 up, 26 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Palma Ratio · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestColombia

4.193

LowestSlovakia

0.772

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading4.19315.413income2023
2BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading3.52812.535income2023
3PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading3.04613.415income2023
4HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading2.72015.567income2023
5Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading2.66010.393income2023
6GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading2.45410.486income2023
7EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading2.37910.114income2023
8ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading2.3248.256income2023
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2023 reading2.2647.189income2023
10ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2023 reading2.1158.848income2023
11BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading2.0599.364income2023
12United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading2.0439.575income2023
13UruguayURYSouth America · 2023 reading1.9437.637income2023
14PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading1.9208.089income2023
15RwandaRWAEastern Africa1.8294.580consumption2023.77
16El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading1.8178.523income2023
17BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2023 reading1.8037.161income2023
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading1.7975.335income2023
19Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2023 reading1.6956.762income2023
20TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading1.6825.674consumption2023
21UgandaUGAEastern Africa1.6716.151consumption2023.17
22IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading1.5364.440consumption2023
23PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading1.5216.239consumption2023
24IranIRNSouthern Asia1.5025.455consumption2023.23
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2023 reading1.4797.107income2023

02In Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Colombia4.193
  2. 2Brazil3.528
  3. 3Panama3.046
  4. 4Honduras2.720
  5. 5Costa Rica2.660

Lowest

  1. 60Slovakia0.772
  2. 59India0.793
  3. 58Slovenia0.839
  4. 57Kiribati0.849
  5. 56Czechia0.890

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.332. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestHonduras15.567

    LowestIndia2.811

    Middle country: 5.486

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 25 · 26rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 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-2023-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 (2023). Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/palma-ratio/2023

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07Questions

Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest palma ratio in Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation?

Colombia, at 4.193, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Palma Ratio, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Palma Ratio, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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