🇬🇹Guatemala

Guatemala City

Americas

Upper middle income

GTM

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Population

18.7M

1.5%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.29

births/woman

Life Expectancy

72.7y

GDP / capita

$6.6K

Pop. Growth

1.52%

Net Migration

-8K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Guatemala by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇸🇻El Salvador22.8K(25.2%)

+36%

🇲🇽Mexico20.8K(23.0%)

+36%

🇺🇸

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male9.3MTotal 18.7M9.4MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

23.4

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇳🇮Nicaragua10.1K(11.2%)

+36%

🇭🇳Honduras9.9K(11.0%)

+36%

🇰🇷Korea, Rep.2.1K(2.3%)

+36%

🇪🇸Spain1.6K(1.7%)

+36%

🇨🇷Costa Rica1.4K(1.5%)

+36%

🇨🇴Colombia1.4K(1.5%)

+36%

🇧🇿Belize1.1K(1.2%)

+36%

🇨🇺Cuba779(0.9%)

+36%

🇨🇳China775(0.9%)

+36%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Guatemala diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Guatemala who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇸United States1.3M(89.0%)

+58%

🇲🇽Mexico81K(5.5%)

+126%

🇧🇿Belize29.6K(2.0%)

+48%

🇨🇦Canada18.2K(1.2%)

+13%

🇸🇻El Salvador9.2K(0.6%)

+7%

🇭🇳Honduras4.8K(0.3%)

+46%

🇨🇷Costa Rica3.9K(0.3%)

+47%

🇵🇦Panama2.9K(0.2%)

+114%

🇮🇹Italy2.5K(0.2%)

+43%

🇳🇮Nicaragua1.9K(0.1%)

+17%

🇨🇴Colombia979(0.1%)

+99%

🇦🇺Australia788(0.1%)

+90%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024