New businesses registered in Panama

13,048 companies were registered in Panama in 2022.

Measure: New businesses registered Unit: New limited liability companies Data: 2013 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Panama, 2022 13,048 New limited liability companies
Change from 2021 −11.4% 2021: 14,734 companies

New businesses registered in Panama over time

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New limited liability companies. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

New businesses registered (new limited liability companies), 2013 to 2022
Period Panama
2022 13,048 companies
2021 14,734 companies
2020 10,136 companies
2019 14,069 companies
2018 13,204 companies
2017 15,568 companies
2016 19,734 companies
2015 26,608 companies
2014 29,488 companies
2013 30,203 companies

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −11.4% from 14,734 companies in 2021.
  • Since 2013, when it was 30,203 companies, the figure has changed by −56.8%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IC.BUS.NREG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2013 to 2022 for Panama
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database