Guatemala 
Facts
Population:
12,974,361 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
42.11% (male 2,789,189; female 2,674,747)
15-64 years:
54.25% (male 3,518,209; female 3,519,851)
65 years and over:
3.64% (male 220,640; female 251,725) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.6% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
34.61 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
6.79 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-1.84 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.88 male(s)/female
total population:
1.01 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
45.79 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
66.51 years
male:
63.85 years
female:
69.31 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
4.58 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
1.38% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
73,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
3,600 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Guatemalan(s)
adjective:
Guatemalan
Ethnic groups:
Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2%
Religions:
Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
Languages:
Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (more than 20 Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
63.6%
male:
68.7%
female:
58.5% (2000 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $46.2 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,700 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
23%
industry:
20%
services:
57% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
60% (2000 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
0.6%
highest 10%:
46.6% (1989)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
4.2 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 50%, industry 15%, services 35% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
7.5% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$2.2 billion
expenditures:
$1.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)
Industries:
sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
4.1% (1999)
Electricity - production:
3.785 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
38.31%
hydro:
61.69%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
3.295 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
435 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
210 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens
Exports:
$2.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, sugar, bananas, fruits and vegetables, cardamom, meat, apparel, petroleum, electricity
Exports - partners:
US 51.4%, El Salvador 8.7%, Honduras 5%, Costa Rica 3.4%, Germany 2.7% (1998)
Imports:
$4.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity
Imports - partners:
US 42.8%, Mexico 9.9%, Japan 4.8%, El Salvador 4.3%, Venezuela 3.8% (1998)
Debt - external:
$4.7 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$212 million (1995)
Currency:
quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed
Currency code:
GTQ; USD
Exchange rates:
quetzales per US dollar - 7.8020 (January 2001), 7.7632 (2000), 7.3856 (1999), 6.3947 (1998), 6.0653 (1997), 6.0495 (1996), 5.8103 (1995)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Independent), Guatemala City
http://www.elperiodico.com.gt/
(Regional English-language news agency), Guatemala City
http://www.inforpressca.com/CAR/
(Conservative), Guatemala City
http://www.lahora.com.gt/
Panorama
(Business monthly), Guatemala City
(independent), Guatemala City
http://www.prensalibre.com.gt
(Conservative), Guatemala City
http://www.prensalibre.com/pls/prensa/index.j...
(Independent), Guatemala City
http://www.sigloxxi.com/
Guatemala in the News
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In July, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court cleared the way for former dictator Gen. José Efraín Ríos Montt to stand as a presidential candidate in November elections. Guatemalans have reacted angrily to the court’s ruling. The Mexican newsmagazine Proceso reports.
Public confidence in the administration of President Alfonso Portillo has eroded steadily as allegations of government corruption have multiplied in recent months, raising fears that Guatemala’s 1996 peace accord and fragile democratic institutions could be undermined by heightened political confrontation and violence. Robert Taylor reviews the Guatemalan press.
World Press Review - Mexico City's newsmagazine Proceso claims that Mexico's border with Guatemala is non-existant.
Guatemala is painfully exhuming its bloody past following a recent flurry of indictments in several of the country’s most notorious human-rights cases, arising from the “scorched earth” military repression of the early 1980s and the 1998 assassination of a Catholic bishop who exposed the armed forces’ involvement in these and other atrocities during the 36-year civil war that ended in 1996.
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