Guatemala
Guatemala in numbers
38 measures of Guatemala from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.52% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$617M in 2025
- Military spending per person$34 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel43,000 people in 2020
- National power0.09% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.64% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports6 million TIV in 2023
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Guatemala with…
- Guatemala vs Brazil
- Guatemala vs Mexico
- Guatemala vs Colombia
- Guatemala vs Argentina
- Guatemala vs Peru
- Guatemala vs Venezuela
- Guatemala vs Chile
- Guatemala vs Ecuador
- Guatemala vs Bolivia
- Guatemala vs Haiti
- Guatemala vs Dominican Republic
- Guatemala vs Honduras
- Guatemala vs Cuba
- Guatemala vs El Salvador
- Guatemala vs Belize
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time