Panama
Republic of Panama
- Capital
- Panama City
- Region
- Central America
- Population, 2025
- 4.6 million
- Currency
- PAB
- Area
- 75,417 km²
Across Panama's 12 priced cities, one person needs about $1,486 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $930.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%35
- Safety20%58
- Health care15%62
- Climate10%68
- Air quality10%84
- Connectivity10%82
- Cost10%45
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #79
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 7%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employee
- 9.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 12.3%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 57.6
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 42.4
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 11.7
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #27 worldwide
- 233
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #88 worldwide
- 40
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +25%
Cities in Panama
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Juan Díaz | 62 | — | — | — | — | 100.6K | Low confidence |
| 2San Miguelito | 61 | 48.7 | — | — | — | 321.5K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 3Puerto Armuelles | 57 | 33.9 | $300 | — | — | 11.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 4Santiago | 55 | 41.1 | $450 | — | — | 45.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 5El Valle de Anton | 54 | 48.4 | $575 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Las Tablas | 54 | 39.2 | — | — | — | 8.9K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 7Aguadulce | 53 | 46.9 | — | — | — | 8.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 8El Coco | 53 | 48.3 | — | — | — | 11.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9David | 53 | 40.6 | $350 | $600 | 71.5 | 82.9K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 10Las Cumbres | 53 | — | — | — | — | 69.1K | Low confidence |
| 11La Chorrera | 53 | — | — | — | — | 61.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Veracruz | 53 | — | — | — | — | 17.1K | Low confidence |
| 13Vista Alegre | 53 | — | — | — | — | 8.7K | Low confidence |
| 14Bugaba | 53 | — | — | $450 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Panama City | 52 | 48.2 | $1,315 | $930 | 52.2 | 408.2K | High confidence, 63 contributors |
| 16Boquete | 49 | 45.3 | $825 | $800 | 60.8 | 6.1K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 17Bocastown, Isla Colon | 49 | 43.8 | $750 | $675 | 54.8 | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 18Coronado | 47 | 47.8 | $760 | $600 | 46.4 | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |