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Guatemala

18,687,881

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+281.52K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+59.8%from 11.7M
Life expectancy72.7 years2024
Fertility rate2.29births per woman · 2024
Urban population56.3%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Guatemala is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1431.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+5.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate20.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+15.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-7.96Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Guatemala look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 24.67M in 2050—34.0% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202418.41M
  2. 205024.67M
  3. 210025.91M
Median age in 205033.0years
Births in 2050342.96Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050158.58Kduring the year
Life expectancy76.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19604.06M
  2. 19705.4M
  3. 19806.9M
  4. 19909.02M
  5. 200011.7M
  6. 201014.5M
  7. 202017.36M
  8. 202518.69M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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