Mauritania vs Panama: Population

Mauritania

5.02 million people

in 2023

Panama

4.46 million people

in 2023

Mauritania rank

127th

Panama rank

129th

Population over time

Mauritania currently reports 5.02 million people against 4.46 million people in Panama, a difference of 563,680 people.

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 127th 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.