Country comparison Panama : United States

General information

	Panama	United States
Region:	Central America	North America
Area:	75,420 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Spanish	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1903 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Panama City	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Panama	United States
Population:	4,246,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	56.3	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 82 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 27.9 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	18.98 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.08 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.11 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Panama	United States
Political stability:	69	72
Civil rights:	48	83
Health:	63	74
Climate:	40	64
Cost of Living:	49	34
Popularity:	35	86

Economy

	Panama	United States
Currency:	Panamanian Balboa (1 PAB = 100 Centesimos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	10.2 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.36 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	57.89 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	14,950 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	35 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	PAN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	66,801 M US$	15.73 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	63,468 M US$	14.95 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	28,312 M US$	6.67 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	27,378 M US$	6.45 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	PAN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	15,137 km	3.56 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	77 km	0.02 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	800 km	0.19 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	7,860	1.851	3,673	0.011
Airports:	117	0.028	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	PAN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	8.71 bn kWh	2.05 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	10.60 bn kWh	2.50 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	139.00 m kWh	32,733.31 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	30.00 m kWh	7,064.74 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.71 m t	2,523.28 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Panama	United States
International dialing:	+507	+1
Internet domain:	.pa	.us

	PAN total	PAN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	741,269	175	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	5,599,010	1319	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	11,022	3	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	2,701,941	636	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Panama	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.57	2.59
Diabetes:	7.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.60 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	6.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Panama and United States

	Panama	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.9 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.7 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	27.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	11.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.1	7.2

Native languages

	Panama	United States
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
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Embera:	0.6 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	1.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Panama	United States
Christianity:	100.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %