Panama
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | High income |
| Regional Group | The Americas |
| Population (Total) | 4,246,439 |
| Population as a share world total | 0.06% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 66,800 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 0.08% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 32,762 |
Performance Overview
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PAN
Country
Panama
Score
44.74
Rank
77
Technology
39.99
People
37.75
Governance
50.65
Impact
50.57
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 57.36 | 76 |
| 2. Handset prices | 64.54 | 28 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 60.61 | 75 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 33.00 | 114 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 41.75 | 79 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 71.22 | 42 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | n/a | n/a |
| 1. GitHub commits | 7.48 | 54 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | 46.77 | 60 |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 67.50 | 56 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 47.02 | 66 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 40.39 | 64 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 0.95 | 73 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 15.15 | 72 |
| 5. Robot density | n/a | n/a |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 7.65 | 112 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 17.41 | 52 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 1.07 | 49 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | n/a | n/a |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | 33.59 | 88 |
| 1. Happiness | 66.69 | 49 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 86.35 | 38 |
| 3. Income inequality | 35.57 | 111 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 77.21 | 31 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 83.61 | 25 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 10.42 | 77 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 86.92 | 14 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 95.38 | 6 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 75.36 | 47 |
| 1. Internet users | 56.92 | 84 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 26.98 | 74 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 55.67 | 63 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 34.60 | 64 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | 94.13 | 45 |
| 6. ICT skills | 31.78 | 112 |
| 1. Firms with website | 35.99 | 86 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 64.26 | 81 |
| 3. Professionals | 25.61 | 63 |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | 30.79 | 71 |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | 55.83 | 77 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 0.02 | 93 |
| 1. Government online services | 61.21 | 81 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 17.90 | 77 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 28.98 | 92 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 3.21 | 106 |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 60.21 | 57 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 39.11 | 99 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 13.18 | 98 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 7.81 | 81 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 60.26 | 52 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 86.88 | 51 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 40.52 | 67 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | 54.30 | 54 |
| 1. E-Participation | 56.79 | 88 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 41.27 | 107 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 56.08 | 74 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | 75.79 | 4 |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 37.42 | 116 |