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Key facts
- Currency: Panamanian balboa
- Capital city: Panama City
- Region: Central America
- Continent: Americas
- Land area: 74,180 km²
- Population: 4,408,581
- Political Leader: Laurentino Cortizo (President)
Latest news (see all)
Panama's presidential frontrunner skips third and final debate ahead of May 5 election
Read: ABC News
2024-04-18
Panama's presidential frontrunner skips third and final debate ahead of May 5 election
Read: The Star
2024-04-18
Scientists and NGOs call for Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty to deliver 30x30 in the High Seas
Read: Greenpeace
2024-04-12
Metrics
General information
Business
| Expense | 17.14 % of GDP |
| GDP | 76,522,500,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 2.86 annual % |
| Self-employed | 44.32 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 7.46 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 7.65 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 42.12 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 21,813.20 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 8.86 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 9,582.70 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 6.92 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 60.77 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 27.76 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 4.56 % of total |
| Net energy imports | 80.90 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 2.33 births per woman |
| Forest area | 42,024 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 80.71 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 170.24 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 25.10 years |
| Methane emissions | 5,047.34 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 1,253.66 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 2,204,170 |
| Male Population | 2,204,410 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 28.43 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 73,613.80 km² |
| Rural population | 1,360,444 |
| Urban land area | 1,070.98 km² |
| Urban population | 3,048,137 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 3.26 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 17.69 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 6.07 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 1,214.55 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 9.66 % of GDP |
| Hospital beds | 2.25 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 76 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 2.90 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 95.25 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 67.51 % of population |
| Net migration | 7,262 |
| Press freedom | 2.63 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 28,000 |
| Democracy score | 7.05 |
| Democracy type | Flawed democracy |
| Military expenditure | 0.97 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 22.54 % |
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
