Americas · Central America
Capital: Guatemala City
Guatemala
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Overall rank #84
Guatemala's Country Blitz power profile compares population, GDP, military expenditure, research-and-development spending, and manufacturing output across every playable country. A lower numerical rank represents a stronger position in that category.
Population
18.7M
#69 of 196
65th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI / UN population sources
View data source ↗GDP (Nominal)
$123.31B
#66 of 196
67th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
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$415.2M
#113 of 196
43rd percentile
2024 · SIPRI via World Bank WDI
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$6.4M
#132 of 196
33rd percentile
2023 · UNESCO UIS and World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Manufacturing Output
$16.27B
#63 of 196
68th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Quick facts
- Capital
- Guatemala City
- Region
- Americas
- Subregion
- Central America
- Country code
- GTM
- Neighbors
- BelizeEl SalvadorHondurasMexico
Three interesting facts
Guatemala shares land borders with 4 countries: Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico.
Guatemala spans roughly 108,889 square kilometers, placing it around 105th by area in this factbook.
Guatemala’s position in Central America places it within a distinctive network of regional trade routes and migration paths.
Geography
Guatemala on the map
Guatemala is located in Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico, and bordering the Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea) between Honduras and Belize. Its terrain is two east-west trending mountain chains divide the country into three regions: the mountainous highlands, the Pacific coast south of mountains, and the vast northern Peten lowlands. The climate is tropical, hot, humid in lowlands, cooler in highlands. In area, the country is slightly smaller than Pennsylvania.
Economy
Economic profile
Guatemala's economy is characterized by developing Central American economy, steady economic growth fueled by remittances, high poverty and income inequality, limited government services, lack of employment opportunities, and frequent natural disasters impede human development efforts and drive emigration. Major industries include sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism. Important agricultural products include sugarcane, bananas, oil palm fruit, maize, cantaloupes/melons, potatoes, milk, tomatoes, chicken, pineapples (2023). Notable exports include garments, bananas, coffee, palm oil, raw sugar (2023).
Demographics
People and population
Guatemala has an estimated population of 18,079,810. Language and cultural traditions vary across Guatemala. The population includes Mestizo (mixed Indigenous-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) 56%, Maya 41.7%, Xinca (Indigenous, non-Maya) 1.8%, African descent 0.2%, Garifuna (mixed West and Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak) 0.1%, foreign 0.2% (2018 est.). The urban population represents 53.1% of total population (2023).
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