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The proportion of the population below the age of 15 in 2010 was 41.5%, 54.1% were aged between 15 and 65 years of age, and 4.4% were aged 65 years or older. [10] Guatemala City is home to almost 3 million inhabitants. [11] In 1900 Guatemala had a population of 1,885,000. [12] Over the 21st century Guatemala's population grew by a factor of ...
Sex ratio by country for total population. Blue represents more males than the world average of 1.07 males/females. (2020) The human sex ratio is the comparative number of males with respect to each female in a population. This is a list of sex ratios by country or region.
Guatemala's population (1950–2010) [204] Population pyramid in 2020 Tz'utujil men in Santiago Atitlán Guatemala has a population of 17,608,483 (2021 est). [ 13 ] [ 14 ] With only 885,000 in 1900, this constitutes the fastest population growth in the Western Hemisphere during the 20th century. [ 205 ]
Sex ratio by country for the over-65 population. Blue represents more men, red more women than the world average of 0.81 males/female. The human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population in the context of anthropology and demography. In humans, the natural sex ratio at birth is slightly biased towards the male sex.
By gender, 51.9% of the population are female, and 48.1% male. The majority of the population, 59.8%, lives in the rural portion of the department. [13] The predominant language in El Progreso is Guatemalan Spanish. [10] In 2013, 89.2% of the population were recorded as literate, with a year-on-year drop in illiteracy from 16.1% in 2009. [15]
In Guatemala in 2010, 31% of the female population was illiterate. [32] In rural Guatemala, 70.5% are poor; women are more likely to be poor in the more rural areas. [33] Gammage argues that women in poor households engage more in domestic tasks and undertake more household maintenance, social reproduction and care work than men. [34]
The population exhibits gender imbalance, with 7,409 women (57%) compared to 5,509 men (43%), a sex ratio of 134 to 100. Almost all live in Guatemala City , with only 38 recorded as living in Antigua or other cities.
Youth in Guatemala are the largest segment of the nation's population. Youth includes individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 [ 1 ] Over half of the population is under 19 years old in 2011, [ 1 ] the highest proportion of young people of any country in Latin America. [ 2 ]