Palestine
Everything Palanor holds about Palestine, in one place: 34 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
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The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $17.2 billion (2025); 89th percentile since 1994; 1y +7.2%.
- Household consumption, share of GDP: 90.6% of GDP (2025); 39th percentile since 1994; 1y +0.7 pts.
- Net exports, share of GDP: -32.3% of GDP (2025); 95th percentile since 1994; 1y −1.42 pts.
Country Posture
What Palestine’s economy is doing
Momentum
2024Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | -22.9 |
| Growth against its three-year average | -26.2 |
| Change in unemployment | — |
| Change in the employment rate | — |
| Export volume growth | -2.0 |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
2025Withheld: 3 of 5 core inputs reported for 2025.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue | — |
| Budget balance | — |
| Reserves, months of imports | 2.3 |
| Current account | -15.8 |
| Governance (WGI mean) | -1.06 |
| External debt | — |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | 9.8 |
| Change in inflation | -43.9 |
| Currency move against the dollar | — |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.0 |
| Political stability | -1.91 |
| Private credit, three-year change | 8.7 |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | — |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Passport reach
Where a Palestine passport opens doors
The share of world GDP, outside Palestine itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.
Work
0.0%rank 114 of 199
the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 0 destinations in full.
Recorded changes
- 2026-01-01United States · visit: Visa required → Not admitted source
Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.
Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.
GDP by expenditure
What Palestine’s economy runs on
In 2025, household spending was 90.6% of GDP, government consumption 17.1%, investment 25.6% and net exports -32.3% (exports 21.2%, imports 53.5%).
World Bank national accounts. The parts can miss 100 by a few points (the statistical discrepancy).
Same World Bank definition for every country, so the shares compare directly: What each economy runs on.
News
In the news
- Rooney withdraws books from UK sale over Palestine Action support
The Irish novelist withdrew works from UK distribution after pledging royalties to a protest group outlawed as a terrorist organization.
Palanor Wire2026-10-15neutral
- South African Judge Navi Pillay Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee honored Pillay for her work promoting peace and international law, including her leadership of UN investigations into genocide in Gaza and Rwanda.
Palanor Wire2026-10-09positive · +wins +peace
- The Israeli military detained Brad Lander, a New York congressional candidate, on Wednesday in the West Bank while he participated in an international delegation to harvest olives alongside Palestinian farmers. nyti.ms/3Uazysv
The New York Times · Bluesky2026-10-21neutral
- Brad Lander, a Democratic House nominee in New York City, was detained on Wednesday in the West Bank by the Israeli military while he participated in an international delegation to harvest olives alongside Palestinian farmers. nyti.ms/4BpXI3k
The New York Times · Bluesky2026-10-21neutral
- US Democratic congressional nominee Lander detained by Israeli authorities in West Bank reut.rs/4jzKkTB
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-21neutral
- Aumentan a más de 1.530 los palestinos muertos por ataques de Israel contra Gaza pese al alto el fuego
La Tercera2026-10-21neutral
- Hugo Gye, our Britain political correspondent, on the absurdity of Palestine Action
The Economist · Bluesky2026-10-20neutral
- Falta de fondos obliga a programa de la ONU a suspender la ayuda alimentaria a medio millón de palestinos en Gaza
La Tercera2026-10-20neutral
- As potential Democratic 2028 contenders fan out across the country, every one of them will face the same litmus test.
They know the question will be coming: Do Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide?
www.semafor.com/article/10/1...
Semafor · Bluesky2026-10-19neutral
- Since October 7th and the war in Gaza, attitudes among Jewish Israelis towards Palestinians have hardened. What could this mean for Israel’s Arab parties in the next election? bit.ly/4dJT4Ts
Photo: Reuters
The Economist · Bluesky2026-10-18negative · -war
- “Hundreds of West Bank Palestinians have died at the hands of settlers or Israeli soldiers” since the Hamas attacks in 2023, writes Nimrod Novik. A “cycle of terror and subjugation” has emerged, he warns
The Economist · Bluesky2026-10-18negative · -attacks -warns
- Masked Israeli settlers carried out an attack in a Palestinian town where residents and European diplomats were participating in the olive harvest on Saturday, a day after a similar assault injured several Palestinians and a U.S. journalist in the occupied West Bank.
The New York Times · Bluesky2026-10-17negative · -attack
- Jewish and Muslim communities shaken by the war in Gaza find themselves as central players in a bitter Michigan Senate race.
The Associated Press · Bluesky2026-10-17negative · -war
- West Bank settlers attack Palestinians, Western diplomats, Belgium says reut.rs/47ZvIpp
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-17negative · -attack
Headlines that name Palestine, matched by name with fixed rules (a wrong match is worse than a missing one). Tone is read from each headline’s own words; no model reads or summarizes an article, and other publishers’ stories link out.
Signals
Every series about Palestine
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 34 in the Library.
Growth and output1
- Palestine · GDP · USD bn (current)89th percentile since 1994; 1y +7.2%$17.2bn2025
Trade and capital flows1
- Palestine · Net International Investment Position, % of GDP (IMF)record high since 2009; 1y +18.12 pts62.5% of GDP2025
Migration1 of 3
- U.S.-Born People Living in Palestine (UN)56th percentile since 19908,170 people2024
Peers
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