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Panama

Central America · data available 2000-2019 (20 years)

8.7POP (2019)
#11of 18 countries, 2019
44thpercentile, 2019

Score over time

Figure 1: Panama: POP, PEP, and PIP by year

What’s driving the score

Latest-year breakdown of the six Institutional Populism components and four Economic Populism components – see Documentation for what each one measures.

Figure 2: Panama: sub-index components, latest year

Panama vs. the regional average

Figure 3: Panama vs. regional average POP

Governing party by year

The populist rhetoric score (POP_R) is specific to whichever party governed that year – see Documentation for how this is determined.

Year Governing party Populist rhetoric (POP_R)
2019 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.27
2018 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.33
2017 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.38
2016 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.43
2015 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.49
2014 Democratic Change 0.63
2013 Democratic Change 0.68
2012 Democratic Change 0.72
2011 Democratic Change 0.76
2010 Democratic Change 0.80
2009 Democratic Revolutionary Party 0.54
2008 Democratic Revolutionary Party 0.53
2007 Democratic Revolutionary Party 0.51
2006 Democratic Revolutionary Party 0.49
2005 Democratic Revolutionary Party 0.48
2004 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.40
2003 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.39
2002 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.37
2001 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.35
2000 Panamenista Party / Authentic Panameñista Party 0.34