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Panama

 

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 Panama
All information: Panama
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:75,420 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:4,177,000 326,688,000
Official language:Spanish English

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Government

Government form:Presidential republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1903 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Panama City Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:55.4 33.2
Life expectancy males:75.2 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:81.6 years 81.1 years
Average age:27.9 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:18.98 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:5.08 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.10 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:75 75
Civil rights:47 96
Health:58 68
Security:77 63
Climate:41 64
Cost of Living:52 36
Popularity:28 92


Economy

Currency:Panamanian Balboa (1 PAB = 100 Centesimos) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:3.9 % 3.7 %
Inflation rate:-0.36 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:81.30 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:37.20 % 36.60 %
Average income:12,836 € 56,427 €
Corruption index:36 (bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:58,111 Mio €13.91 M € 18,351,356 M €56.17 M €
Gross national product:53,616 Mio €12.84 M € 18,433,513 M €56.43 M €
Exported goods:25,493 M €6.10 M € 2,234,305 M €6.84 M €
Imported goods:25,817 M €6.18 M € 2,794,991 M €8.56 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:15,137 km3.62 km 6,586,610 km20.16 km
Railways:77 km0.02 km 293,564 km0.90 km
Waterways:800 km0.19 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:7,8601.882 3,6730.011
Airports:1170.028 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:8.71 bn kWh2.08 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.94 m kWh
Energy production:10.60 bn kWh2.54 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.53 m kWh
Energy export:139.00 m kWh33,278.48 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,676.68 kWh
Energy imports:30.00 m kWh7,182.41 kWh 72.72 bn kWh222,598.05 kWh
CO2 emissions:8.80 m t2,107.03 t 5.25 bn t16,083.50 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+507 +1
Internet domain:.pa .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:728,379174 109,961,000337
Mobile phones:5,722,3701,370 422,000,0001,292
Internet server:11,0223 505,000,0001,546
Internet users:2,416,951579 285,087,483873



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:2.30 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:1.57 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:7.7 % 10.8 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.5 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:73.0 % 77.0 %
Smokers:6.1 % 21.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Panama and United States

Daytime temperatures:30.9 °C 18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:22.7 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:27.0 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:81 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:22 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:141.6 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:6.1 7.2


Native languages

English:13.4 % 82.1 %
Spanish:69.2 % 10.7 %
Creole:8.2 % n/a
Guaymí:5.3 % n/a
Cuna:2.0 % n/a
French:n/a 0.7 %
German:n/a 0.7 %
Chinese:n/a 0.6 %
Embera:0.6 % n/a
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
other:1.3 % 3.0 %


Religions

Christianity:100.0 % 78.5 %
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
Islam:n/a 0.6 %
other:0.0 % 18.4 %