Panama
Panama in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Panama recorded GDP per capita: 19,790 (2025), ranking 76 of 212 worldwide; Population: 4.57 million (2025), ranking 128 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 79.8 (2024), ranking 55 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: -0.19% (2025), ranking 178 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+16741%) and Inflation the largest decrease (-470%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits above the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 13 of 19 comparable series are higher and 6 are lower.
Its population of 4.57 million (2025) makes it a smaller population by the standards of this dataset.
All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 90,462,600,000 | 2025 | +16741.3% |
| GDP per capita | 19,789.73 | 2025 | +4048.5% |
| GDP growth | 4.35% | 2025 | -60.2% |
| Population | 4,571,189 | 2025 | +306.0% |
| Population growth | 1.22% | 2025 | -58.7% |
| Urban population | 66.15% | 2025 | +60.2% |
| Inflation | -0.19% | 2025 | -470.5% |
| Life expectancy | 79.78 | 2024 | +32.3% |
| Infant mortality | 12 | 2024 | -81.6% |
| CO2 per capita | 2.74 | 2024 | +59.4% |
| GDP (PPP) | 200,685,085,534.88 | 2025 | +1657.3% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 43,902.16 | 2025 | +844.0% |
| Labor participation | 66.3% | 2025 | +21.7% |
| Unemployment | 8.36% | 2025 | +29.8% |
| Electricity access | 96% | 2024 | +36.8% |
| Internet users | 72.77% | 2024 | — |
| Education spending | 2.47% | 2023 | -38.9% |
| Forest area | 56.34% | 2023 | -9.1% |
| Health spending | 8.33% | 2023 | +19.3% |