Panama
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.
Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Panama is filled. The 2 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Panama. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
6 parts of Panama in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 8.4°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 83.6°W–76.6°W, 7.0°N–9.8°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Panama. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.
Official alerts
no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Panama City
26°C / 79°FOvercastwind 5 km/h / 3 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Panama City, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:07 AM · sunset 6:15 PM12h 08m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- PANuncited
- Driving side
- rightuncited
- Mains voltage
- 110 Vcited
- Capital
- Panama Citycited
- Official language
- Spanishcited
- Plug types
- Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- panamadigital.gob.pa ↗Recorded by us, not by the source: Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental (AIG) — in the government's own namespace, recorded 2026-08-07. We have not tested whether it loads.The Portal Único del Ciudadano, operating under Ley 83 de 2012 (as modified by Ley 144 de 2020). No bare gob.pa homepage was found; the Presidency is separately presidencia.gob.pa.cited
- Tourism board
- visitpanama.com ↗Not a government portal.
Population and economy
Population
Population of Panama: the UN's 2025 estimate is 4,571,189 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 6.3 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 4,571,189 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 4,515,577 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 6.3 more an hour (55,649 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 4,571,1892025
- GDP
- 90,462,600,0002025
- GDP per capita
- 19,7902025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 79.8 years2024
- Exports
- 44.4%2024
- Imports
- 39.3%2024
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.
Also recorded in English, Latin and Welsh.
World Heritage Sites
6 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo · inscribed 1980
- Darién National Park · inscribed 1981
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves · inscribed 1983 · shared with Costa Rica
- Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá · inscribed 1997
- Coiba · inscribed 2005
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá · inscribed 2025
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 103listed as: fire department
- 104listed as: police
- 911
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
- Bocas del Toro Province
- Chiriquí Province
- Coclé
- Colón
- Darién
- Embera
- Guna Yala
- Herrera Province
- Los Santos Province
- Naso Tjër Di
- Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca
- Panamá
- Panamá Oeste Province
- Veraguas Province
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
PAB · USD
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.