Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Americas · Central America

How many babies are born in Panama?

71.6 thousand babies born in Panama in 2026 — 0.05% of all births worldwide, and the 118th largest of any country. UN projection

Plus or minus about 6%. These years have not happened yet or have not been counted yet. They are the medium variant of the UN's projection, not a record of births that took place.

Births in Panama through history

10K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Panama, 0 CE to 2026, on a logarithmic scale. The shaded band on the left marks the years where births are modelled rather than recorded. The marker sits on 2026.
Every figure refers to the area inside Panama's present-day borders. Before 1800 the state did not exist in its current form — see how borders are handled.
Year Estimated births Population Per 1,000 Evidence
1 CE ~1.7K ~41K 41.1 Modelled estimate
1000 ~4.8K ~120K 41.1 Modelled estimate
1500 ~7.5K ~200K 38.2 Modelled estimate
1800 ~2.85K ~75.6K 37.7 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~10.3K ~257K 40.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 34.8K 861K 40.4 UN estimate
2000 70.8K 3.01M 23.5 UN estimate
2024 71.7K 4.52M 15.9 UN projection
2026 71.6K 4.63M 15.5 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Panama are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2016, at about 78.6K. That is roughly 43 times the estimated ~1.67K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.07 children per woman, fertility in Panama is below the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium variant. Earlier years come from the UN's estimates (1950 onward), Gapminder's reconstructions (1800–1949) and a model applied to HYDE population estimates (before 1800). The full chain is set out in the methodology, and every source is listed on the sources page.