World population/Panama
North America
Population of Panama
4,625,719
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#129
world rank
0.06%
of world population
+1.16%
yearly change
+53,520
people this year
71,573
births a year
23,227
deaths a year
How the figure for Panama is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Panama at 4,625,719 on 1 July 2026, and projects 4,679,239 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Panama at number 129 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.06 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 71,573 births and 23,227 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.