A consolidated migration profile for Panama:
who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers.
Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.
CapitalPanama City
RegionLatin America
Subregion—
Population4,571,189
Refugees hosted2,694People protected here
Refugees from here—Fled abroad
Migrants living here477,749Foreign-born stock
Net migration6,151Net inflow
Asylum-seekers4,129Awaiting a decision
Reporting year2025Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025
Key migration numbers
The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.
2025Reporting year
2,694Refugees hosted
4,129Asylum-seekers
1,203Applications (year)
Migration balance
Incoming vs outgoing
Annual estimates
Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.
Net migration (year)6,151Net inflow
Migrants living here477,749Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series
Statistics
Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).
Population profile
Sex, age, religion & more
How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.
Religion
Religious make-up over time
National shares
Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.
Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.
Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.
Sex
Female44.1%
Male38.9%
Unknown17.0%
Age
0-40.4%
12-176.4%
18-5964.0%
5-116.1%
60+6.2%
Sex
Female21.6%
Male19.1%
Unknown59.3%
Age
0-40.2%
12-173.2%
18-5931.3%
5-113.0%
60+3.0%
Sex
Female17.0%
Male15.0%
Unknown68.0%
Age
0-40.1%
12-172.5%
18-5924.6%
5-112.3%
60+2.4%
Sex
Female44.9%
Male46.1%
Unknown9.0%
Sex
Female7.3%
Male9.3%
Unknown83.4%
Age
0-41.4%
12-171.6%
18-5911.9%
5-111.3%
60+0.4%
Sex
Female12.3%
Male18.8%
Unknown68.9%
Age
0-41.3%
12-173.6%
18-5923.0%
5-111.7%
60+1.5%
Sex
Female9.6%
Male16.2%
Unknown74.2%
Age
0-40.3%
12-172.7%
18-5920.5%
5-110.8%
60+1.5%
Sex
Female7.1%
Male12.5%
Unknown80.4%
Age
0-40.3%
12-172.8%
18-5914.0%
5-110.9%
60+1.6%
Sex
Female7.2%
Male10.7%
Unknown82.1%
Age
0-40.4%
12-173.5%
18-5911.0%
5-111.2%
60+1.7%
Sex
Female6.2%
Male9.4%
Unknown84.4%
Age
0-40.4%
12-173.3%
18-599.2%
5-111.1%
60+1.7%
Sex
Female6.7%
Male10.2%
Unknown83.1%
Age
0-40.4%
12-173.2%
18-5910.4%
5-111.2%
60+1.6%
Sex
Female5.9%
Male8.6%
Unknown85.5%
Age
0-40.4%
12-173.1%
18-598.4%
5-111.2%
60+1.5%
Sex
Female6.1%
Male9.2%
Unknown84.7%
Age
0-40.6%
12-172.5%
18-598.8%
5-111.1%
60+2.2%
Sex
Female6.0%
Male8.3%
Unknown85.7%
Age
0-40.7%
12-172.5%
18-598.3%
5-111.1%
60+1.7%
Sex
Female5.8%
Male8.0%
Unknown86.2%
Age
0-41.7%
12-172.0%
18-596.5%
5-112.2%
60+1.4%
Sex
Female44.7%
Male55.2%
Age
0-41.3%
12-171.4%
18-598.1%
5-111.2%
60+1.2%
Sex
Female48.4%
Male51.5%
Age
0-41.7%
12-171.4%
18-5910.8%
5-111.8%
60+1.6%
Sex
Female2.7%
Male2.2%
Unknown95.1%
Age
12-171.2%
18-593.4%
5-110.3%
Sex
Female33.4%
Male39.7%
Unknown26.9%
Age
0-44.1%
12-1711.4%
18-5940.9%
5-1112.4%
60+2.7%
Sex
Female42.4%
Male47.6%
Unknown10.0%
Age
0-45.6%
12-1714.4%
18-5950.9%
5-1115.5%
60+3.4%
Sex
Female46.4%
Male50.1%
Unknown3.5%
Age
0-46.4%
12-1714.9%
18-5953.9%
5-1117.1%
60+4.3%
Country context
National indicators
Economy
GDP (current US$)90,462,600,000.00 USD2025GDP per capita (current US$)19,789.73 USD2025Unemployment (% of labour force)8.36 %2025Personal remittances received (US$)634,454,278.24 USD2025Personal remittances received (% of GDP)0.70 %2025
Returned refugees5.00 people2017Naturalisations5.00 people2004
Other
Gini index49.70 2024Life expectancy at birth, total (years)79.78 years2024Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)3.10 %2024Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)96.20 %2024Current health expenditure (% of GDP)8.33 %2023
Context
Migration & quality of life
These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.
Economy
Gross domestic product
World Bank
GDP (current US$)
$90.46B
Reported 2025
GDP per capita (current US$)
$19,790
Reported 2025
Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.
Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).
Public safety
Recorded crime
Not migrant offending
National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.
Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.70
Homicide
11.71
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.86
Homicide
11.34
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.98
Homicide
12.66
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.15
Homicide
11.65
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.46
Homicide
11.33
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.68
Homicide
9.62
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.91
Homicide
9.22
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.19
Homicide
10.05
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.51
Homicide
11.89
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.97
Homicide
15.52
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.62
Homicide
17.33
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.82
Homicide
16.94
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.41
Homicide
14.86
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.71
Homicide
12.68
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.25
Homicide
15.77
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.78
Homicide
14.08
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.23
Homicide
8.12
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.13
Homicide
6.55
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.16
Homicide
10.99
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.67
Homicide
9.47
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.27
Homicide
10.56
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.52
Homicide
12.02
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.76
Homicide
9.97
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.93
Homicide
9.93
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.27
Homicide
9.66
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.81
Homicide
9.71
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.14
Homicide
11.10
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.62
Homicide
8.92
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
13.84
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
12.10
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
11.78
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
12.14
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
11.72
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
11.32
Crime
Rate / 100k
920.00
Public expenditure
Expenses
Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.
Year
Amount (USD)
Category
2023
$410,184,387
ODA received
2022
$131,429,749
ODA received
2021
$92,565,071
ODA received
2020
$146,001,404
ODA received
2019
$71,655,579
ODA received
2018
$39,135,925
ODA received
2017
$41,749,691
ODA received
2016
$22,612,696
ODA received
2015
$10,250,074
ODA received
2014
$-193,256,943
ODA received
2013
$9,205,001
ODA received
2012
$51,347,683
ODA received
2011
$110,937,309
ODA received
2010
$126,830,002
ODA received
2009
$66,546,677
ODA received
2008
$35,439,999
ODA received
2007
$-127,665,970
ODA received
2006
$38,805,698
ODA received
2005
$28,440,701
ODA received
2004
$30,966,667
ODA received
2003
$36,536,934
ODA received
2002
$29,776,934
ODA received
2001
$34,818,600
ODA received
2000
$26,945,900
ODA received
1999
$24,352,568
ODA received
1998
$32,060,902
ODA received
1997
$54,931,667
ODA received
1996
$58,020,000
ODA received
1995
$46,549,999
ODA received
1994
$38,470,001
ODA received
1993
$80,709,999
ODA received
1992
$197,070,007
ODA received
1991
$111,690,002
ODA received
1990
$99,730,003
ODA received
1989
$19,990,000
ODA received
1988
$22,709,999
ODA received
1987
$38,130,001
ODA received
1986
$35,450,001
ODA received
1985
$49,130,001
ODA received
1984
$62,270,000
ODA received
1983
$31,959,999
ODA received
1982
$28,389,999
ODA received
1981
$24,309,999
ODA received
1980
$24,330,000
ODA received
1979
$19,850,000
ODA received
1978
$20,809,999
ODA received
1977
$24,190,001
ODA received
1976
$29,510,000
ODA received
1975
$22,240,000
ODA received
1974
$15,960,000
ODA received
1973
$22,410,000
ODA received
1972
$12,800,000
ODA received
1971
$19,500,000
ODA received
1970
$15,770,000
ODA received
1969
$16,500,000
ODA received
1968
$12,900,000
ODA received
1967
$16,910,000
ODA received
1966
$19,820,000
ODA received
1965
$32,779,999
ODA received
1964
$10,910,000
ODA received
1963
$18,600,000
ODA received
1962
$11,590,000
ODA received
1961
$10,150,000
ODA received
1960
$13,310,000
ODA received
Sources & notes
Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.
