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Guatemalan Americans (Spanish: guatemalteco-americanos, norteamericanos de origen guatemalteco or estadounidenses de origen guatemalteco) are Americans of full or partial Guatemalan descent. The Guatemalan American population at the 2010 Census was 1,044,209.
In 2021, it was reported that remittances from the United States to Guatemala surpassed $15.3 billion, which was the largest amount of remittances recorded in history and made up approximately 17.8% of the Guatemalan economy. [22]
Guatemala is the fourth Latin American country where English is spoken. While in Guatemala only 5% of the population speaks that language, the Swedish company Education First, places the country in 4th place in Latin America in the knowledge of this language.
Guatemalan migrants are the 10th largest migrant group in the United States of America., [1] and the 3rd largest immigrant group from Central America. [2] The 2015 American Community Survey estimates the Guatemalan American migrant population at 1,300,000, which is roughly 3% of the US foreign born population, and 0.4% of the total population of the United States. [3]
Guatemala has pledged a 40% increase in deportation flights carrying Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States, President Bernardo Arévalo announced Wednesday during ...
Guatemala has a population of 17,153,288 (July 2020 est). [6] In 1900, Guatemala had a population of 885,000. [7] Guatemala had the fastest population growth in the Western Hemisphere during 20th century. Approximately half of the Guatemalan population lives in poverty and 13.7% of them live in extreme poverty. Guatemala is heavily centralized.
MEXICO CITY − Guatemala is open to receiving citizens of other Central American nations who are deported from the U.S., three sources familiar with the matter said, as the country looks to build ...
More than 10,000 children have been deported from the U.S. and Mexico back to Guatemala. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has opened a new office in Guatemala City to help them.