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Population in Panama compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Panama was 4,515,577 in 2024 vs 69,226,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Panama's population is 4,614,993 people compared to 69,945,462 in the United Kingdom.

Population statistics:

  • The United Kingdom's population is 15.2 times bigger than Panama's.
  • Panama is ranked the 128th most populous country in the world, while the United Kingdom is the 22nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.9% of the world: 0.06% for Panama vs 0.85% for the United Kingdom.
  • For the last 10 years, Panama has had an average growth rate of +1.52% per year vs +0.7% in the United Kingdom.
  • Since 2005, the population of Panama has increased from 3.31M people to 4.61M (39.3% growth), while the United Kingdom has grown from 60.4M to 69.9M (15.8% growth).
  • Panama is projected to reach its peak in 2080 at 6.03M people compared to the peak of 76.2M people in 2072 for the United Kingdom.

Panama vs United Kingdom: live population counter

Panama United Kingdom
Current population
4614993
69945462
Population rank 128/197 22/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 0.85%
One net population change
9.25 minutes
43 seconds
One birth every
7.35 minutes
45.9 seconds
One death every
24.7 minutes
48.4 seconds
One migration net change every
1.31 hours
1.26 minutes
Annual migration change +6,706 +417,114
Daily growth/decline +156 +2,011
Annual growth/decline +56,818 +734,000
Annual growth/decline rate +1.27% +1.07%
Population growth rate rank 85/197 99/197

Panama and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Panama
Population

Growth rate
United Kingdom
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Panama United Kingdom Panama United Kingdom
1960 1,126,005 52,400,000 - -
1961 1,159,870 52,800,000 3.01% 0.76%
1962 1,195,301 53,250,000 3.05% 0.85%
1963 1,232,124 53,650,000 3.08% 0.75%
1964 1,270,065 54,000,000 3.08% 0.65%
1965 1,308,835 54,348,050 3.05% 0.64%
1966 1,348,388 54,648,500 3.02% 0.55%
1967 1,388,628 54,943,600 2.98% 0.54%
1968 1,429,447 55,211,700 2.94% 0.49%
1969 1,470,886 55,441,750 2.9% 0.42%
1970 1,513,070 55,663,250 2.87% 0.4%
1971 1,556,081 55,896,223 2.84% 0.42%
1972 1,599,723 56,086,065 2.8% 0.34%
1973 1,643,690 56,194,527 2.75% 0.19%
1974 1,687,926 56,229,974 2.69% 0.06%
1975 1,732,389 56,225,800 2.63% -0.007%
1976 1,776,935 56,211,968 2.57% -0.02%
1977 1,821,543 56,193,492 2.51% -0.03%
1978 1,866,311 56,196,504 2.46% 0.005%
1979 1,911,552 56,246,951 2.42% 0.09%
1980 1,957,534 56,314,216 2.41% 0.12%
1981 2,004,418 56,333,829 2.4% 0.03%
1982 2,052,271 56,313,641 2.39% -0.04%
1983 2,101,106 56,332,848 2.38% 0.03%
1984 2,150,782 56,422,072 2.36% 0.16%
1985 2,200,915 56,550,268 2.33% 0.23%
1986 2,251,325 56,681,396 2.29% 0.23%
1987 2,301,970 56,802,050 2.25% 0.21%
1988 2,352,848 56,928,327 2.21% 0.22%
1989 2,403,820 57,076,711 2.17% 0.26%
1990 2,455,583 57,247,586 2.15% 0.3%
1991 2,508,265 57,424,897 2.15% 0.31%
1992 2,561,336 57,580,402 2.12% 0.27%
1993 2,615,099 57,718,614 2.1% 0.24%
1994 2,669,546 57,865,745 2.08% 0.25%
1995 2,724,557 58,019,030 2.06% 0.26%
1996 2,780,227 58,166,950 2.04% 0.25%
1997 2,836,695 58,316,954 2.03% 0.26%
1998 2,893,914 58,487,141 2.02% 0.29%
1999 2,951,822 58,682,466 2% 0.33%
2000 3,010,369 58,892,514 1.98% 0.36%
2001 3,069,537 59,119,673 1.97% 0.39%
2002 3,129,344 59,370,479 1.95% 0.42%
2003 3,189,807 59,647,577 1.93% 0.47%
2004 3,251,155 59,987,905 1.92% 0.57%
2005 3,313,026 60,401,206 1.9% 0.69%
2006 3,375,024 60,846,820 1.87% 0.74%
2007 3,437,490 61,322,463 1.85% 0.78%
2008 3,500,648 61,806,995 1.84% 0.79%
2009 3,564,381 62,276,270 1.82% 0.76%
2010 3,628,535 62,766,365 1.8% 0.79%
2011 3,693,505 63,258,810 1.79% 0.78%
2012 3,759,256 63,711,000 1.78% 0.71%
2013 3,825,329 64,139,000 1.76% 0.67%
2014 3,892,101 64,620,000 1.75% 0.75%
2015 3,960,035 65,088,000 1.75% 0.72%
2016 4,029,086 65,607,000 1.74% 0.8%
2017 4,098,707 65,966,000 1.73% 0.55%
2018 4,167,860 66,289,000 1.69% 0.49%
2019 4,234,700 66,631,000 1.6% 0.52%
2020 4,293,261 66,744,000 1.38% 0.17%
2021 4,345,405 66,984,000 1.21% 0.36%
2022 4,400,773 67,604,000 1.27% 0.93%
2023 4,458,759 68,492,000 1.32% 1.31%
2024 4,515,577 69,226,000 1.27% 1.07%
2025 4,571,195 69,639,673 1.23% 0.6%
2026 4,625,720 70,020,350 1.19% 0.55%
2027 4,679,241 70,382,853 1.16% 0.52%
2028 4,731,818 70,732,699 1.12% 0.5%
2029 4,783,378 71,061,482 1.09% 0.46%
2030 4,833,856 71,377,535 1.06% 0.44%
2031 4,883,390 71,678,351 1.02% 0.42%
2032 4,932,075 71,959,934 1% 0.39%
2033 4,979,812 72,234,509 0.97% 0.38%
2034 5,026,494 72,497,650 0.94% 0.36%
2035 5,072,267 72,749,096 0.91% 0.35%
2036 5,117,124 72,990,847 0.88% 0.33%
2037 5,161,085 73,218,850 0.86% 0.31%
2038 5,204,053 73,441,349 0.83% 0.3%
2039 5,245,902 73,658,392 0.8% 0.3%
2040 5,286,595 73,868,334 0.78% 0.29%
2041 5,326,183 74,074,316 0.75% 0.28%
2042 5,364,671 74,275,779 0.72% 0.27%
2043 5,402,037 74,475,035 0.7% 0.27%
2044 5,438,259 74,667,284 0.67% 0.26%
2045 5,473,283 74,848,605 0.64% 0.24%
2046 5,507,148 75,020,949 0.62% 0.23%
2047 5,539,873 75,184,478 0.59% 0.22%
2048 5,571,404 75,337,543 0.57% 0.2%
2049 5,601,670 75,476,141 0.54% 0.18%
2050 5,630,681 75,600,588 0.52% 0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Panama increased by 647,009 people (a 19.5% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Panama gained 654,958 (a 16.5% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Panama was ranked 128th most populous country in 2005 and is still 128th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.

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