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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Panama was 4,515,577 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Panama's population is 4,614,993 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Taiwan's population is 5.05 times bigger than Panama's.
  • Panama is ranked the 128th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.34% of the world: 0.06% for Panama vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Panama has had an average growth rate of +1.52% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Panama has increased from 3.31M people to 4.61M (39.3% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Panama is projected to reach its peak in 2080 at 6.03M people, while Taiwan's population already peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and is projected to decrease to 10.1M people by 2100.

Panama vs Taiwan: live population counter

Panama Taiwan
Current population
4614993
23308308
Population rank 128/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 0.28%
One net population change
9.25 minutes
7.75 minutes
One birth every
7.35 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
24.7 minutes
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
1.31 hours
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change +6,706 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +156 +186
Annual growth/decline +56,818 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +1.27% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 85/197 150/197

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

Panama
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Panama Taiwan Panama Taiwan
1960 1,126,005 - - -
1961 1,159,870 11,030,385 3.01% -
1962 1,195,301 11,392,513 3.05% 3.28%
1963 1,232,124 11,762,101 3.08% 3.24%
1964 1,270,065 12,137,143 3.08% 3.19%
1965 1,308,835 12,511,863 3.05% 3.09%
1966 1,348,388 12,874,153 3.02% 2.9%
1967 1,388,628 13,210,344 2.98% 2.61%
1968 1,429,447 13,548,537 2.94% 2.56%
1969 1,470,886 14,068,984 2.9% 3.84%
1970 1,513,070 14,582,944 2.87% 3.65%
1971 1,556,081 14,913,564 2.84% 2.27%
1972 1,599,723 15,220,495 2.8% 2.06%
1973 1,643,690 15,505,121 2.75% 1.87%
1974 1,687,926 15,784,817 2.69% 1.8%
1975 1,732,389 16,075,128 2.63% 1.84%
1976 1,776,935 16,401,413 2.57% 2.03%
1977 1,821,543 16,730,895 2.51% 2.01%
1978 1,866,311 17,042,272 2.46% 1.86%
1979 1,911,552 17,372,779 2.42% 1.94%
1980 1,957,534 17,704,538 2.41% 1.91%
1981 2,004,418 18,029,982 2.4% 1.84%
1982 2,052,271 18,354,855 2.39% 1.8%
1983 2,101,106 18,653,146 2.38% 1.63%
1984 2,150,782 18,929,866 2.36% 1.48%
1985 2,200,915 19,191,510 2.33% 1.38%
1986 2,251,325 19,411,454 2.29% 1.15%
1987 2,301,970 19,617,046 2.25% 1.06%
1988 2,352,848 19,839,704 2.21% 1.14%
1989 2,403,820 20,055,492 2.17% 1.09%
1990 2,455,583 20,278,946 2.15% 1.11%
1991 2,508,265 20,503,568 2.15% 1.11%
1992 2,561,336 20,704,227 2.12% 0.98%
1993 2,615,099 20,899,019 2.1% 0.94%
1994 2,669,546 21,086,645 2.08% 0.9%
1995 2,724,557 21,267,653 2.06% 0.86%
1996 2,780,227 21,441,432 2.04% 0.82%
1997 2,836,695 21,634,124 2.03% 0.9%
1998 2,893,914 21,835,703 2.02% 0.93%
1999 2,951,822 22,010,489 2% 0.8%
2000 3,010,369 22,184,530 1.98% 0.79%
2001 3,069,537 22,341,120 1.97% 0.71%
2002 3,129,344 22,463,172 1.95% 0.55%
2003 3,189,807 22,562,663 1.93% 0.44%
2004 3,251,155 22,646,836 1.92% 0.37%
2005 3,313,026 22,729,753 1.9% 0.37%
2006 3,375,024 22,823,455 1.87% 0.41%
2007 3,437,490 22,917,444 1.85% 0.41%
2008 3,500,648 22,997,696 1.84% 0.35%
2009 3,564,381 23,078,402 1.82% 0.35%
2010 3,628,535 23,140,948 1.8% 0.27%
2011 3,693,505 23,193,518 1.79% 0.23%
2012 3,759,256 23,270,367 1.78% 0.33%
2013 3,825,329 23,344,670 1.76% 0.32%
2014 3,892,101 23,403,635 1.75% 0.25%
2015 3,960,035 23,462,914 1.75% 0.25%
2016 4,029,086 23,515,945 1.74% 0.23%
2017 4,098,707 23,555,522 1.73% 0.17%
2018 4,167,860 23,580,080 1.69% 0.1%
2019 4,234,700 23,596,027 1.6% 0.07%
2020 4,293,261 23,582,179 1.38% -0.06%
2021 4,345,405 23,468,275 1.21% -0.48%
2022 4,400,773 23,319,977 1.27% -0.63%
2023 4,458,759 23,342,541 1.32% 0.1%
2024 4,515,577 23,410,331 1.27% 0.29%
2025 4,571,195 23,308,308 1.23% -0.44%
2026 4,625,720 23,205,944 1.19% -0.44%
2027 4,679,241 23,102,120 1.16% -0.45%
2028 4,731,818 22,996,693 1.12% -0.46%
2029 4,783,378 22,890,335 1.09% -0.46%
2030 4,833,856 22,781,040 1.06% -0.48%
2031 4,883,390 22,667,327 1.02% -0.5%
2032 4,932,075 22,549,689 1% -0.52%
2033 4,979,812 22,428,721 0.97% -0.54%
2034 5,026,494 22,302,402 0.94% -0.56%
2035 5,072,267 22,170,689 0.91% -0.59%
2036 5,117,124 22,034,775 0.88% -0.61%
2037 5,161,085 21,893,029 0.86% -0.64%
2038 5,204,053 21,746,001 0.83% -0.67%
2039 5,245,902 21,594,236 0.8% -0.7%
2040 5,286,595 21,436,947 0.78% -0.73%
2041 5,326,183 21,274,187 0.75% -0.76%
2042 5,364,671 21,105,682 0.72% -0.79%
2043 5,402,037 20,932,105 0.7% -0.82%
2044 5,438,259 20,754,623 0.67% -0.85%
2045 5,473,283 20,571,741 0.64% -0.88%
2046 5,507,148 20,384,903 0.62% -0.91%
2047 5,539,873 20,194,425 0.59% -0.93%
2048 5,571,404 19,999,753 0.57% -0.96%
2049 5,601,670 19,801,293 0.54% -0.99%
2050 5,630,681 19,598,997 0.52% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Panama increased by 647,009 people (a 19.5% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Panama gained 654,958 (a 16.5% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Panama was ranked 128th most populous country in 2005 and is still 128th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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