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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 ]
According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [8] [9] the total population estimate was 17,608,483 in 2021. 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.
There is also an increase in the migration of children from the Northern Triangle that correlates with the spike in homicide rates. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported that for every 100,000 people in Honduras, the homicide rate was 90.4. [7] The homicide rate for El Salvador was 41.2 and Guatemala's was 39.9. [7]
Guatemala's National Disaster Reduction Coordinator confirmed the three dead, including a young girl, in a statement Monday. The 5-year-old girl was recovered by firefighters partially buried in ...
According to the UN, two women are murdered on average each day in Guatemala. [8] As shown by high rates of domestic abuse, females also face more vulnerabilities of private violence while young males are threatened more by public gang violence. [5] In just the first month of 2005, Guatemala City alone received 13,700 reports of family violence ...
The rise in colorectal cancer among young people is a “global phenomenon,” according to a new study. While the increase in the number of Americans under 50 being diagnosed with the disease has ...
[10] [11] [12] Indigenous people make up about 42% of the population in Guatemala and mostly reside in poor rural areas with little access to post-primary education. [13] [14] Compared to non-indigenous students who average 5.7 years of schooling, Indigenous students are at a disadvantage with an average of 2.5 years of schooling.
The person of interest, who Tisch said was found with a lighter in his pocket," emigrated from Guatemala to the United States in 2018. "I want to thank the young people who called 911 to help ...