🇵🇦 Panama
Republic of Panama
Every statistic we track for Panama — 148 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$46,405
77.0 yrs
6.55
0.57
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 2.1 | #97/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.4 | #79/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 30.6 | #129/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 3.7 | #132/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 4.6 | #122/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 62.4 | #155/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 375 | #122/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 66% | #99/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 96% | #148/214 | 2024 |
| Broadband Internet at Home (AmericasBarometer) | 51.2% | #12/18 | 2025–2026 |
| Internet Users | 72.8% | #115/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 152.1 | #24/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 49.8% | #28/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 96.1% | #11/31 | 2023 |
| Education Spending (QoG) | 2.5% | #88/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 10.4 | #60/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 357 | #73/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 392 | #59/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 388 | #65/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 2.7 | #98/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 1,020 | #88/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 52.9 | #49/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 68% | #46/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 62.1 | #64/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Feel Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (AmericasBarometer) | 35.8% | #12/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Global Peace Index | 2 | #78/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 15.6 | #30/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 7.3 | #146/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (AmericasBarometer) | 47.5% | #9/20 | 2025–2026 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 88.8% | #55/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 49.6% | #60/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 16.3 | #19/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 11.6% | #132/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 12% | #32/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4 | #84/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 49.8 | #90/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 18.2 | #28/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 69.3% | #68/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.5 | #39/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #53/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.8 | #47/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0 | #134/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.8 | #38/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0 | #132/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.5 | #39/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.8 | #59/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 13.6% | #54/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 83.8% | #70/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 87% | #37/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 11 | #63/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (Latinobarómetro) | 19% | #6/17 | 2024 |
| Masculinity | 44 | #42/65 | 2010 |
| People in the Neighbourhood Are Trustworthy (AmericasBarometer) | 56.4% | #14/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Power Distance | 95 | #4/65 | 2010 |
| Signed a Petition | 14.9% | #64/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 5.7% | #90/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.3 | #86/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 3.7 | #124/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.5 | #74/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 66.8% | #104/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 53.3% | #113/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.2 | #121/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 86 | #18/65 | 2010 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.