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🇬🇹 Guatemala
Republic of Guatemala
GTM GT Q Guatemalan quetzal (GTQ)
Every statistic we track for Guatemala — 149 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$16,021
71.5 yrs
6.53
0.52
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 2.3 | #86/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #52/172 | 2023 |
| Internally Displaced People | 573,000 | #18/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 23.8 | #173/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 15.5 | #67/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 18.9 | #64/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 177 | #81/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 34,994 | #40/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 56% | #135/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 90.9% | #159/214 | 2024 |
| Broadband Internet at Home (AmericasBarometer) | 42% | #16/18 | 2025–2026 |
| Internet Users | 60.2% | #135/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 115.2 | #98/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 39.7% | #39/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 83% | #26/31 | 2023 |
| Education Spending (QoG) | 3.1% | #74/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.3 | #124/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 344 | #75/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 374 | #67/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 373 | #72/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 1.1 | #138/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 935 | #94/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 32.5 | #165/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 68.3% | #45/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 43.2 | #125/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Feel Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (AmericasBarometer) | 39.9% | #10/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.2 | #54/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 20.4 | #21/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 12.6 | #93/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (AmericasBarometer) | 38.7% | #12/20 | 2025–2026 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 80.8% | #106/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 51.6% | #52/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 15.4 | #22/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 19.2% | #99/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 14.2% | #23/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 5.8 | #31/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 46.5 | #106/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 22.4 | #21/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 72.4% | #57/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.5 | #42/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #31/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.5 | #91/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #102/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #124/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #94/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.2 | #91/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.7 | #137/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 9.9% | #85/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 86.7% | #47/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 87.3% | #35/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 6 | #65/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (Latinobarómetro) | 15% | #8/17 | 2024 |
| Masculinity | 37 | #53/65 | 2010 |
| People in the Neighbourhood Are Trustworthy (AmericasBarometer) | 58.1% | #12/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Power Distance | 95 | #3/65 | 2010 |
| Secular Values | 0.4 | #23/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.5 | #16/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 14.6% | #67/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 3.9% | #106/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.1 | #95/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 3.6 | #132/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.2 | #93/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 60.3% | #122/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 45% | #131/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4 | #137/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 101 | #3/65 | 2010 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.