🇵🇦Panama

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Population

4.6M

1.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.11

births/woman

Life Expectancy

79.8y

GDP / capita

$19.8K

Pop. Growth

1.22%

Net Migration

6.2K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Panama by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB182.4K(38.3%)

22×

🇨🇴Colombia77.3K(16.2%)

+64%

🇨🇳

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male2.3MTotal 4.6M2.3MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

11.7

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇺🇸United States25.7K(5.4%)

+115%

🇳🇮Nicaragua23.7K(5.0%)

+115%

🇩🇴Dominican Republic14.8K(3.1%)

+114%

🇨🇷Costa Rica14.2K(3.0%)

+114%

🇲🇽Mexico8.9K(1.9%)

+114%

🇮🇳India8.2K(1.7%)

+115%

🇵🇪Peru7.9K(1.7%)

+115%

🇪🇸Spain6.8K(1.4%)

+115%

🇸🇻El Salvador6.3K(1.3%)

+130%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Panama diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Panama who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇸United States161.9K(83.1%)

+9%

🇨🇷Costa Rica16.5K(8.5%)

+47%

🇨🇴Colombia3.5K(1.8%)

+71%

🇲🇽Mexico2.2K(1.2%)

+27%

🇮🇹Italy1.2K(0.6%)

+24%

🇵🇪Peru878(0.5%)

+149%

🇨🇱Chile874(0.4%)

+41%

🇩🇴Dominican Republic851(0.4%)

+18%

🇨🇳China800(0.4%)

−10%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB790(0.4%)

−11%

🇦🇷Argentina598(0.3%)

−16%

🇧🇷Brazil592(0.3%)

+17%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024