Guatemala 
Facts
Population: 12,728,111 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 40.8% (male 2,641,179/female 2,556,397)
15-64 years: 55.5% (male 3,426,376/female 3,642,157)
65 years and over: 3.6% (male 213,801/female 248,201) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.152% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 29.09 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 5.27 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -2.31 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.033 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.941 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.861 male(s)/female
total population: 0.974 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 29.77 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 32.26 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 27.16 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 69.69 years
male: 67.94 years
female: 71.52 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 3.7 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.1% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 78,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 5,800 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Guatemalan(s)
adjective: Guatemalan.
Ethnic groups: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) and European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 census).
Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs.
Languages: Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 69.1%
male: 75.4%
female: 63.3% (2002 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $61.38 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4.6% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $5,000 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 22.1%
industry: 19.1%
services: 58.7% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 5.02 million (2005 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 50%
industry: 15%
services: 35% (1999 est.).
Population below poverty line: 56.2% (2004 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.6%
highest 10%: 46% (1998).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.8% (2006).
Unemployment rate: 3.2% (2005 est.).
Budget: revenues: $3.84 billion
expenditures: $4.431 billion; including capital expenditures of $750 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens.
Industries: sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: 3.6% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 7.2 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - consumption: 6.625 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - exports: 335 million kWh (2005).
Electricity - imports: 23 million kWh (2005).
Exports: $3.71 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, fruits and vegetables, cardamom.
Exports - partners: US 50.1%, El Salvador 12.1%, Honduras 7.3%, Mexico 4% (2005).
Imports: $9.911 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity.
Imports - partners: US 38.1%, Mexico 7.6%, El Salvador 4.8%, South Korea 4.8%, Panama 4.4% (2005).
Debt - external: $3.908 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $250 million (2000 est.).
Currency (code): quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed.
Exchange rates: quetzales per US dollar - 7.6026 (2006), 7.6339 (2005), 7.9465 (2004), 7.9409 (2003), 7.8217 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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