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Guatemala

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Guatemala is a country. The capital city is Guatemala City, located in the Central America region of Americas. It has a land area of 107,160 km², a population of 18,124,838 people and uses the currency Guatemalan quetzal. The President is Alejandro Giammattei.

Key facts

currency: Guatemalan quetzal
capital city: Guatemala City
region: Central America
continent: Americas
land area: 107,160 km²
population: 18,124,838 people
political leader: Alejandro Giammattei (President)

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central government debt: 25.21 % of GDP
expense: 13.99 % of GDP
GDP: 104,450,210,572.01 current US$
inflation: 6.89 annual %
self-employed workers: 39.54 % of total employment
tax revenue: 11.82 % of GDP
unemployment: 2.34 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 36.61 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 43,000 people
democracy score: 5.60
democracy type: Hybrid regime
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 242,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 56.10 % of population
military expenditure: 0.41 % of GDP
net migration: -8,940 people
press freedom: 2.18
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 20.00 %
birth rate: 20.86 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.77 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 340.96 current US$
health expenditure: 6.90 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.07 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.44 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 69
suicide mortality rate: 5.90 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 46,120.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 2.57 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 21.35 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 99.10 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 21.36 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 35.04 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 18.25 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 25.35 % of total
net energy imports: 32.84 % of energy use
fertility rate: 2.35 births per woman
forest area: 35,046 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 37.38 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 43.98 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 18.70
methane emissions: 18.07 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 4.73 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 9,135,826 people
male population: 8,989,012 people
renewable energy consumption: 62.10 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 105,527.12 km²
rural population: 8,500,912 people
urban land area: 2,900.62 km²
urban population: 9,623,926 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.12 % of total population

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Guatemala is one of the countries in Americas, countries in Central America and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of universities in Guatemala per foundation year

Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Guatemala

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Correlation of self-employment and vulnerable employment by countries yearly in Guatemala

Correlation of urban population and nitrous oxide emissions by countries yearly in Guatemala

Correlation of mean length and mean width of wildfires by wildfire in Guatemala

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There are 215 books written about Guatemala in the database.

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