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🇵🇦 Panama
High income. Capital Panama City. Mid-pack GDP/cap (HIC · PEAK) across 39 World Bank / WHO / ILO measures.
- 4.5 million
- Population
- $86.5 billion
- GDP
- $19,161
- GDP / capita
- 79.8 years
- Life expectancy
Mid-pack GDP/cap · PEAK
Panama ranks 79th of 217 by total GDP and 55th for life expectancy - a high income economy in Latin America & Caribbean.
- #79
- World GDP rank (of 217)
- $19,161
- GDP per capita
- #55
- Life-expectancy rank
- #128
- Population rank
Panama sits in the middle third of GDP/cap (#75 of 214) as a HIC economy with PEAK longevity.
Panama vs all countries by total GDP
Where this economy's World Bank total GDP sits among every country with a positive observation (inventory signal, not a virtue ranking)
$86,523,959,100 79th of 214 higher than 135 of 214 countries
Countries banded by World Bank total GDP (current US$)
Each bar is a $0.001K-wide band; taller bars hold more countries. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source World Bank, GDP (current US$) · 2026-08-14
Panama on the global income map
Panama (PAN) mid GDP/cap pack - GDP per capita × life expectancy vs largest peers; gold rings = OECD.
- Panama: GDP per capita $19,161 (2024), life expectancy 79.8 years (2024), high income.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
Panama has a population of 4.5 million, making it the 128th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in Latin America & Caribbean.
Its economy totals $86.5 billion - ranked 79th globally by total GDP. GDP per capita stands at $19,161, placing it in the High income category.
Life expectancy at birth is 79.8 years (ranked 55th globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Panama City.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 4 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series Panama does report.
All indicators for Panama
39 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
🫀 Disease Burden
Tuberculosis deaths at 4.1 per 100,000 sit well above the fleet midpoint (4.1) on Panama; the cause list below is truncated to the steepest rates instead of repeating the full WHO menu. Summary metrics use 2021 data; cause-specific cards show their own observation year.
Non-communicable Diseases
Injuries & External Causes
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: 2021. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
Compare Panama with near GDP/cap peers
Side-by-side pages for the closest ABS GDP/cap neighbours - not a full-roster dropdown.
Read with Panama
Nearest GDP/cap peers and LE poles for Panama (HIC · PEAK), replacing the old fixed guide and region clone strip.
HIC PEAK
Costa Rica · HIC
Costa Rica GDP/cap $18,853 is lower by $308 than Panama; LE stamp PEAK vs PEAK.
Trinidad and Tobago · HIC
Trinidad and Tobago GDP/cap $18,733 is lower by $428 than Panama; LE stamp LONG vs PEAK.
Seychelles · HIC
Seychelles GDP/cap $18,365 is lower by $797 than Panama; LE stamp LONG vs PEAK.
Romania · HIC
Romania GDP/cap $20,080 is higher by $919 than Panama; LE stamp LONG vs PEAK.
Latin America & Caribbean WDI roster
Panama stamps HIC · PEAK inside Latin America & Caribbean - open the region roster after the ABS peers.
GDP/cap leaderboard (#75)
Panama ranks #75 of 214 on NY.GDP.PCAP.CD under the HIC Atlas band.
What the data says about Panama
Panama sits in the high-income bracket but outside the OECD's harmonized reporting network, so its statistics come straight from the World Bank, WHO, and ILO source series rather than a jointly reconciled OECD dataset - still official, but with less cross-checking between agencies than an OECD member gets. Because output and income figures are converted at market exchange rates into current dollars, they can swing with currency movements independent of any real change in living standards, and for a small economy like this one that swing shows up more visibly in the headline numbers than it would for a larger country. The fuller picture comes from comparing Panama against income-tier peers of a similar size.
Panama sits in the middle third of GDP/cap (#75 of 214) as a HIC economy with PEAK longevity.
Panama holds 4.5 million people and $86.5 billion GDP (79th) at $19,161 per person - mid GDP/cap band, HIC, LE 79.8 years (55th, PEAK). 39 WDI/WHO/ILO cells fill the topic blocks.
Nearest ABS GDP/cap peer: Costa Rica at $18,853 (Δ $308). Open that profile or the GDP/cap leaderboard before treating any single year as destiny.
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Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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