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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Panama was 4,515,577 in 2024 vs 68,560,157 people in Tanzania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Panama's population is 4,614,993 people compared to 72,166,806 in Tanzania.

Population statistics:

  • Tanzania's population is 15.6 times bigger than Panama's.
  • Panama is ranked the 128th most populous country in the world, while Tanzania is the 20th.
  • The countries together account for 0.93% of the world: 0.06% for Panama vs 0.87% for Tanzania.
  • For the last 10 years, Panama has had an average growth rate of +1.52% per year vs +3.13% in Tanzania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Panama has increased from 3.31M people to 4.61M (39.3% growth), while Tanzania has grown from 39.2M to 72.2M (84.2% growth).
  • Panama is projected to reach its peak in 2080 at 6.03M people compared to the peak of 263M people in 2100 for Tanzania.

Panama vs Tanzania: live population counter

Panama Tanzania
Current population
4614993
72166806
Population rank 128/197 20/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 0.87%
One net population change
9.25 minutes
16.2 seconds
One birth every
7.35 minutes
13.4 seconds
One death every
24.7 minutes
1.36 minutes
One migration net change every
1.31 hours
17.6 minutes
Annual migration change +6,706 -29,865
Daily growth/decline +156 +5,322
Annual growth/decline +56,818 +1,942,551
Annual growth/decline rate +1.27% +2.92%
Population growth rate rank 85/197 19/197

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

Panama
Population

Growth rate
Tanzania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Panama Tanzania Panama Tanzania
1960 1,126,005 9,901,419 - -
1961 1,159,870 10,187,886 3.01% 2.89%
1962 1,195,301 10,487,756 3.05% 2.94%
1963 1,232,124 10,799,528 3.08% 2.97%
1964 1,270,065 11,127,826 3.08% 3.04%
1965 1,308,835 11,470,728 3.05% 3.08%
1966 1,348,388 11,827,459 3.02% 3.11%
1967 1,388,628 12,200,109 2.98% 3.15%
1968 1,429,447 12,602,076 2.94% 3.29%
1969 1,470,886 13,036,700 2.9% 3.45%
1970 1,513,070 13,492,677 2.87% 3.5%
1971 1,556,081 13,971,451 2.84% 3.55%
1972 1,599,723 14,479,308 2.8% 3.63%
1973 1,643,690 15,010,101 2.75% 3.67%
1974 1,687,926 15,561,630 2.69% 3.67%
1975 1,732,389 16,138,361 2.63% 3.71%
1976 1,776,935 16,736,211 2.57% 3.7%
1977 1,821,543 17,352,929 2.51% 3.68%
1978 1,866,311 17,976,566 2.46% 3.59%
1979 1,911,552 18,592,038 2.42% 3.42%
1980 1,957,534 19,189,769 2.41% 3.21%
1981 2,004,418 19,784,703 2.4% 3.1%
1982 2,052,271 20,398,571 2.39% 3.1%
1983 2,101,106 21,079,874 2.38% 3.34%
1984 2,150,782 21,779,066 2.36% 3.32%
1985 2,200,915 22,501,693 2.33% 3.32%
1986 2,251,325 23,258,959 2.29% 3.37%
1987 2,301,970 24,030,378 2.25% 3.32%
1988 2,352,848 24,769,686 2.21% 3.08%
1989 2,403,820 25,438,759 2.17% 2.7%
1990 2,455,583 26,110,207 2.15% 2.64%
1991 2,508,265 26,780,436 2.15% 2.57%
1992 2,561,336 27,457,588 2.12% 2.53%
1993 2,615,099 28,332,692 2.1% 3.19%
1994 2,669,546 29,442,356 2.08% 3.92%
1995 2,724,557 30,383,497 2.06% 3.2%
1996 2,780,227 30,945,762 2.04% 1.85%
1997 2,836,695 31,578,089 2.03% 2.04%
1998 2,893,914 32,420,458 2.02% 2.67%
1999 2,951,822 33,300,330 2% 2.71%
2000 3,010,369 34,260,139 1.98% 2.88%
2001 3,069,537 35,198,299 1.97% 2.74%
2002 3,129,344 36,121,304 1.95% 2.62%
2003 3,189,807 37,089,555 1.93% 2.68%
2004 3,251,155 38,109,668 1.92% 2.75%
2005 3,313,026 39,182,076 1.9% 2.81%
2006 3,375,024 40,294,902 1.87% 2.84%
2007 3,437,490 41,435,512 1.85% 2.83%
2008 3,500,648 42,570,728 1.84% 2.74%
2009 3,564,381 43,633,982 1.82% 2.5%
2010 3,628,535 44,758,488 1.8% 2.58%
2011 3,693,505 46,029,367 1.79% 2.84%
2012 3,759,256 47,374,260 1.78% 2.92%
2013 3,825,329 48,824,128 1.76% 3.06%
2014 3,892,101 50,351,512 1.75% 3.13%
2015 3,960,035 52,020,962 1.75% 3.32%
2016 4,029,086 53,824,013 1.74% 3.47%
2017 4,098,707 55,652,890 1.73% 3.4%
2018 4,167,860 57,437,145 1.69% 3.21%
2019 4,234,700 59,174,891 1.6% 3.03%
2020 4,293,261 60,972,798 1.38% 3.04%
2021 4,345,405 62,830,412 1.21% 3.05%
2022 4,400,773 64,711,821 1.27% 2.99%
2023 4,458,759 66,617,606 1.32% 2.95%
2024 4,515,577 68,560,157 1.27% 2.92%
2025 4,571,195 70,545,858 1.23% 2.9%
2026 4,625,720 72,563,773 1.19% 2.86%
2027 4,679,241 74,604,804 1.16% 2.81%
2028 4,731,818 76,670,483 1.12% 2.77%
2029 4,783,378 78,773,192 1.09% 2.74%
2030 4,833,856 80,913,118 1.06% 2.72%
2031 4,883,390 83,087,927 1.02% 2.69%
2032 4,932,075 85,293,126 1% 2.65%
2033 4,979,812 87,520,491 0.97% 2.61%
2034 5,026,494 89,788,673 0.94% 2.59%
2035 5,072,267 92,091,418 0.91% 2.56%
2036 5,117,124 94,420,808 0.88% 2.53%
2037 5,161,085 96,775,766 0.86% 2.49%
2038 5,204,053 99,156,465 0.83% 2.46%
2039 5,245,902 101,567,525 0.8% 2.43%
2040 5,286,595 103,999,350 0.78% 2.39%
2041 5,326,183 106,448,475 0.75% 2.35%
2042 5,364,671 108,926,272 0.72% 2.33%
2043 5,402,037 111,433,788 0.7% 2.3%
2044 5,438,259 113,966,263 0.67% 2.27%
2045 5,473,283 116,525,463 0.64% 2.25%
2046 5,507,148 119,109,670 0.62% 2.22%
2047 5,539,873 121,721,018 0.59% 2.19%
2048 5,571,404 124,351,294 0.57% 2.16%
2049 5,601,670 126,981,394 0.54% 2.12%
2050 5,630,681 129,621,083 0.52% 2.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Panama increased by 647,009 people (a 19.5% growth), while Tanzania gained 12,838,886 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Panama gained 654,958 (a 16.5% growth), while Tanzania's population increased by 20,145,844 (a 38.7% growth).

Panama was ranked 128th most populous country in 2005 and is still 128th in 2025. Tanzania was ranked 31st in 2005 and ranked 20th 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 Tanzania will increase by 79.6% to 129,621,083 people and rank change from 20th to 15th.

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