Skip to main content

Panama

WatchScore 1Open the map

Violence in the news: 3 reports in the week to Oct 19, 2026 · ×0.3 · against the three weeks before; GDELT, not verified

Protests in the news: 2 reports in the week to Oct 19, 2026 · against the three weeks before; GDELT, not verified

Level, last 60 days

  • Deaths 30 d

    0

    UCDP up to 2026-08-31

  • Per million 90 d

    –

    last 90 days

  • Civilians

    –

    last 90 days

  • Incidents 30 d

    0

  • Population

    4.6 M

    World Bank

  • Plants near violence

    0 / 0

    near violence / total; 0 nuclear

Why this level1

  • +11 Copernicus satellite-mapping activation for a disaster in the last 30 daysCopernicus Emergency Management Service

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Every monitored signal

The last 60 days, each on its own scale.

  • Confirmed outages, places, 24 h

    1

  • Refugees who fled

    3 368

  • Copernicus mapping activations, 30 days

    1

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Deaths in organised violence, per week

Panama, UCDP best estimates. The red bar is the latest week.

The latest week may be incomplete.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-08-31

Who the violence is between

Deaths by kind of violence, last 90 days of data.

  • State-based conflict · 0%
  • Non-state conflict · 0%
  • Against civilians · 0%

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Food, displacement, sanctions

People in food crisis (IPC 3+)
–
2026-09
Share in food crisis
–
2026-09
Undernourishment
4.7%
2024
Refugees who fled
3,368
2025
Refugees hosted
6,823
2025
Internally displaced
–
2025
Sanctions designations
575
2026-10-20
GDP per person
$19,790
2025

FEWS NET · World Bank / FAO · UNHCR · OpenSanctions

People in crisis-level food insecurity

FEWS NET does not cover this country.

Latest incidents of organised violence0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-08-31

Conflicts, 90 days0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Natural hazards, 30 days0

None in the last 30 days.

GDACS · USGS · NASA EONET

Warnings and notices

UK FCDO: Panama: No specific restriction

No severe weather warning in force.

EMSEarthquake in Los Santos, Panama · Oct 9, 2026

UK FCDO · WMO · WHO · Copernicus EMS

Next 7 days in Panama City

Day°CRainGustsWatch
Mon, Oct 1925…3220.4 mm29 km/hthunderstorm
Tue, Oct 2025…291.7 mm34 km/h
Wed, Oct 2124…2727.4 mm25 km/hthunderstorm
Thu, Oct 2224…3119.1 mm30 km/hthunderstorm
Fri, Oct 2324…3016.2 mm31 km/hthunderstorm
Sat, Oct 2424…304.9 mm29 km/h
Sun, Oct 2525…312.7 mm46 km/h

Forecast for the capital only; marks: heat ≥38 °C, frost ≤−20 °C, rain ≥50 mm, gusts ≥75 km/h, thunderstorms. Official warnings are above.

Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

Food prices in markets5

ItemPriceUSDYear
Bread / 500 G0.92 PAB0.92+1%
Maize / Libra0.35 PAB0.350%
Beans (cranberry) / Libra1.27 PAB1.270%
Beans (red) / Libra1.25 PAB1.250%
Lentils / Libra1.25 PAB1.25+44%

Median retail price across markets in the latest month reported (2022-06); change against the same month a year before.

WFP · HDX (CC BY-IGO)

Disasters since 20003

012000: 020002001: 02002: 02003: 02004: 02005: 020052006: 02007: 02008: 02009: 02010: 020102011: 02012: 02013: 02014: 02015: 020152016: 02017: 02018: 02019: Earthquakes 12020: Floods 120202021: 02022: 02023: 02024: 02025: 020252026: Earthquakes 12026

EarthquakesFloods

  • Earthquake in Panama · Oct 9, 2026 · Magnitude 7.7M, Depth:12.647km
  • Flood in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, United States · Nov 3, 2020 · Magnitude 0
  • Earthquake in Panama · Jun 26, 2019 · Magnitude 6.2M, Depth:26.22km

GDACS (orange and red alerts since 2000)