Panama
Latin America & Caribbean · High income· 4.52M inhabitants
Last updated: September 1, 2025
Futures readiness profile
Key insights: Panama
Panama lags behind global peers in Innovation (32, 27th percentile). The remaining dimensions are closer to the global average, but none demonstrate global leadership or advanced futures readiness. Broad-based, high-impact interventions are needed to drive overall education futures readiness and resilience.
Composite GEFRI Score
49.08
43rd percentile
Higher scores indicate greater education futures readiness
Component scores
School Access and Gender Parity45.09
Near the global average · 39th %-tile
Human Capital51.90
Near the global average · 47th %-tile
Assesses the educational attainment and capacity of a country’s population, focusing on access and completion at secondary and tertiary levels as well as literacy.
Innovation31.56
Below global avg. · 27th %-tile
Reflects a country’s capacity to foster, produce, and apply new knowledge and technology in society and education.
Governance49.27
Near the global average · 58th %-tile
Captures the effectiveness and quality of policies, regulations, and governance that shape the educational environment.
Infrastructure67.57
Above global avg. · 59th %-tile
Measures the availability and quality of basic digital and electrical infrastructure that supports education.
Regional peers: Latin America & Caribbean
| Global rank | Regional rank | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 1 | Chile | 70.50 |
| 39 | 2 | Uruguay | 65.21 |
| 43 | 3 | Argentina | 64.22 |
| — | — | St. Vincent and the Grenadines(microstate) | 60.03 |
| — | — | Antigua and Barbuda(microstate) | 59.60 |
| — | — | Barbados(microstate) | 59.12 |
| 64 | 4 | Peru | 58.24 |
| — | — | Aruba(microstate) | 56.99 |
| — | — | St. Kitts and Nevis(microstate) | 55.64 |
| 76 | 5 | Colombia | 55.51 |
| — | — | Cayman Islands(microstate) | 55.46 |
| — | — | Virgin Islands (U.S.)(microstate) | 55.26 |
| — | — | Curacao(microstate) | 55.04 |
| — | — | Turks and Caicos Islands(microstate) | 54.97 |
| 79 | 6 | Mexico | 54.87 |
| — | — | St. Martin (French part)(microstate) | 54.25 |
| 81 | 7 | Brazil | 53.95 |
| — | — | British Virgin Islands(microstate) | 53.86 |
| 82 | 8 | Puerto Rico (US) | 53.82 |
| 85 | 9 | Cuba | 53.65 |
| — | — | Sint Maarten (Dutch part)(microstate) | 53.11 |
| 88 | 10 | Costa Rica | 52.63 |
| — | — | St. Lucia(microstate) | 51.06 |
| 95 | 11 | Ecuador | 50.75 |
| 99 | 12 | Bolivia | 49.89 |
| 100 | 13 | Jamaica | 49.37 |
| — | — | Grenada(microstate) | 49.32 |
| 102 | 14 | Panama | 49.08 |
| 108 | 15 | Dominican Republic | 46.77 |
| — | — | Dominica(microstate) | 46.51 |
| 111 | 16 | Bahamas, The | 44.38 |
| 113 | 17 | Trinidad and Tobago | 44.26 |
| 114 | 18 | Paraguay | 44.12 |
| 116 | 19 | Guyana | 42.35 |
| 117 | 20 | El Salvador | 41.72 |
| 119 | 21 | Belize | 41.13 |
| 121 | 22 | Venezuela, RB | 40.86 |
| 124 | 23 | Suriname | 37.32 |
| 130 | 24 | Honduras | 33.63 |
| 137 | 25 | Guatemala | 31.55 |
| 138 | 26 | Nicaragua | 31.02 |
| 161 | 27 | Haiti | 23.08 |