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Population in Panama compared to Romania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Panama was 4,515,577 in 2024 vs 19,069,340 people in Romania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Panama's population is 4,614,993 people compared to 18,962,595 in Romania.

Population statistics:

  • Romania's population is 4.11 times bigger than Panama's.
  • Panama is ranked the 128th most populous country in the world, while Romania is the 69th.
  • The countries together account for 0.29% of the world: 0.06% for Panama vs 0.23% for Romania.
  • For the last 10 years, Panama has had an average growth rate of +1.52% per year vs -0.42% in Romania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Panama has increased from 3.31M people to 4.61M (39.3% growth), while Romania has declined from 21.3M to 19M (11.1% decline).
  • Panama is projected to reach its peak in 2080 at 6.03M people, while Romania's population already peaked in 1990 at 23.2M people and is projected to decrease to 10.8M people by 2100.

Panama vs Romania: live population counter

Panama Romania
Current population
4614993
18962595
Population rank 128/197 69/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 0.23%
One net population change
9.25 minutes
53.3 minutes
One birth every
7.35 minutes
3.45 minutes
One death every
24.7 minutes
2.17 minutes
One migration net change every
1.31 hours
18.5 minutes
Annual migration change +6,706 -28,466
Daily growth/decline +156 +27
Annual growth/decline +56,818 +9,861
Annual growth/decline rate +1.27% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 85/197 162/197

Panama and Romania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Panama
Population

Growth rate
Romania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Panama Romania Panama Romania
1960 1,126,005 18,406,905 - -
1961 1,159,870 18,555,250 3.01% 0.81%
1962 1,195,301 18,676,550 3.05% 0.65%
1963 1,232,124 18,797,850 3.08% 0.65%
1964 1,270,065 18,919,126 3.08% 0.65%
1965 1,308,835 19,031,576 3.05% 0.59%
1966 1,348,388 19,215,450 3.02% 0.97%
1967 1,388,628 19,534,242 2.98% 1.66%
1968 1,429,447 19,799,831 2.94% 1.36%
1969 1,470,886 20,009,141 2.9% 1.06%
1970 1,513,070 20,250,398 2.87% 1.21%
1971 1,556,081 20,461,567 2.84% 1.04%
1972 1,599,723 20,657,957 2.8% 0.96%
1973 1,643,690 20,835,681 2.75% 0.86%
1974 1,687,926 21,029,429 2.69% 0.93%
1975 1,732,389 21,293,583 2.63% 1.26%
1976 1,776,935 21,551,634 2.57% 1.21%
1977 1,821,543 21,756,096 2.51% 0.95%
1978 1,866,311 21,951,464 2.46% 0.9%
1979 1,911,552 22,090,488 2.42% 0.63%
1980 1,957,534 22,207,282 2.41% 0.53%
1981 2,004,418 22,353,070 2.4% 0.66%
1982 2,052,271 22,475,741 2.39% 0.55%
1983 2,101,106 22,560,478 2.38% 0.38%
1984 2,150,782 22,640,547 2.36% 0.35%
1985 2,200,915 22,732,999 2.33% 0.41%
1986 2,251,325 22,836,841 2.29% 0.46%
1987 2,301,970 22,949,430 2.25% 0.49%
1988 2,352,848 23,057,662 2.21% 0.47%
1989 2,403,820 23,161,458 2.17% 0.45%
1990 2,455,583 23,201,835 2.15% 0.17%
1991 2,508,265 23,001,155 2.15% -0.86%
1992 2,561,336 22,794,284 2.12% -0.9%
1993 2,615,099 22,763,280 2.1% -0.14%
1994 2,669,546 22,730,211 2.08% -0.15%
1995 2,724,557 22,684,270 2.06% -0.2%
1996 2,780,227 22,619,004 2.04% -0.29%
1997 2,836,695 22,553,978 2.03% -0.29%
1998 2,893,914 22,507,344 2.02% -0.21%
1999 2,951,822 22,472,040 2% -0.16%
2000 3,010,369 22,442,971 1.98% -0.13%
2001 3,069,537 22,131,970 1.97% -1.39%
2002 3,129,344 21,730,496 1.95% -1.81%
2003 3,189,807 21,574,326 1.93% -0.72%
2004 3,251,155 21,451,748 1.92% -0.57%
2005 3,313,026 21,319,685 1.9% -0.62%
2006 3,375,024 21,193,760 1.87% -0.59%
2007 3,437,490 20,882,982 1.85% -1.47%
2008 3,500,648 20,537,875 1.84% -1.65%
2009 3,564,381 20,367,487 1.82% -0.83%
2010 3,628,535 20,246,871 1.8% -0.59%
2011 3,693,505 20,147,528 1.79% -0.49%
2012 3,759,256 20,058,035 1.78% -0.44%
2013 3,825,329 19,983,693 1.76% -0.37%
2014 3,892,101 19,908,979 1.75% -0.37%
2015 3,960,035 19,815,616 1.75% -0.47%
2016 4,029,086 19,702,267 1.74% -0.57%
2017 4,098,707 19,588,715 1.73% -0.58%
2018 4,167,860 19,473,970 1.69% -0.59%
2019 4,234,700 19,371,648 1.6% -0.53%
2020 4,293,261 19,265,250 1.38% -0.55%
2021 4,345,405 19,122,059 1.21% -0.74%
2022 4,400,773 19,048,502 1.27% -0.38%
2023 4,458,759 19,059,479 1.32% 0.06%
2024 4,515,577 19,069,340 1.27% 0.05%
2025 4,571,195 18,962,595 1.23% -0.56%
2026 4,625,720 18,854,232 1.19% -0.57%
2027 4,679,241 18,744,883 1.16% -0.58%
2028 4,731,818 18,634,894 1.12% -0.59%
2029 4,783,378 18,523,736 1.09% -0.6%
2030 4,833,856 18,411,878 1.06% -0.6%
2031 4,883,390 18,299,820 1.02% -0.61%
2032 4,932,075 18,187,406 1% -0.61%
2033 4,979,812 18,074,282 0.97% -0.62%
2034 5,026,494 17,960,330 0.94% -0.63%
2035 5,072,267 17,845,182 0.91% -0.64%
2036 5,117,124 17,728,480 0.88% -0.65%
2037 5,161,085 17,611,384 0.86% -0.66%
2038 5,204,053 17,493,684 0.83% -0.67%
2039 5,245,902 17,375,991 0.8% -0.67%
2040 5,286,595 17,258,810 0.78% -0.67%
2041 5,326,183 17,140,535 0.75% -0.69%
2042 5,364,671 17,022,168 0.72% -0.69%
2043 5,402,037 16,904,427 0.7% -0.69%
2044 5,438,259 16,786,029 0.67% -0.7%
2045 5,473,283 16,667,734 0.64% -0.7%
2046 5,507,148 16,550,066 0.62% -0.71%
2047 5,539,873 16,431,566 0.59% -0.72%
2048 5,571,404 16,312,099 0.57% -0.73%
2049 5,601,670 16,192,424 0.54% -0.73%
2050 5,630,681 16,072,989 0.52% -0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Panama increased by 647,009 people (a 19.5% growth), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Panama gained 654,958 (a 16.5% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

Panama was ranked 128th most populous country in 2005 and is still 128th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Panama's population will grow by 22% to 5,630,681 people with a rank change from 128th to 124th. The population of Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.

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