Panama

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
4,162,618 1
Urban
67.70% 1
Rural
32.30% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
4.7% 2
Homicides
11.38 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
87 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
47 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
2.42 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.70% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
78 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
94.09% 6
Internet Users
45% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$11,130 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
2.9% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
3,789,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
88.55
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
22,507
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
2,092
First Communions per Year
13,161
Confirmations per Year
13,685
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
9,468
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
14,699
Church Marriages per Year
1,569
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
1,436
Priests
431
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
431
Catholics per Priest
8,791
Parishes
200
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
80
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
6