Latin America & Caribbean · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
23.1%
-2.8 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.00%
-1.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
56.6%
of GDP · -30 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
4.6m
67.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Panama yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 4.5% to 5.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 4.3% by 2023.
Defence fell from 1.1% to 0.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 3.9% to 4.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2000, then fell to 2.5% by 2023.
Total spending fell from 25.9% to 20.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2019, then rose to 23.1% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 86.7% to 30.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2013, then rose to 56.6% by 2025.
Population grew from 2.7 million in 1995 to 4.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 5.6 million by 2050.