Kuwait vs Panama: Population

Kuwait

4.84 million people

in 2023

Panama

4.46 million people

in 2023

Kuwait rank

128th

Panama rank

129th

Population over time

Kuwait currently reports 4.84 million people against 4.46 million people in Panama, a difference of 380,020 people.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Panama's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Panama ahead.

Kuwait ranks 128th and Panama ranks 129th of 238 countries.

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.