In 2023, the total population of Guatemala amounted to about 17.6 million. The number of women who lived in Guatemala exceeded the number of men in approximately 18,000. Population figures in this Central American country show a maintained upward trend at least since 2008.

The life expectancy exhibits a significant decline for all gender groups in 2022 compared to the previous year. In line with the decreasing trend, the life expectancy experiences their lowest value towards the end of the observations. Specifically, the life expectancy of men at birth should be mentioned, as it provides the lowest value with 65.7 years. Life expectancy at birth refers to the number of years the average newborn is expected to live, providing that mortality patterns at the time of birth do not change thereafter.Find further similar statistics for other countries or regions like Guinea-Bissau and Cuba.

Graph and download economic data for Ratio of Female to Male Secondary School Enrollment for Guatemala (SEENRSECOFMZSGTM) from 1970 to 2021 about Guatemala, enrolled, secondary schooling, secondary, females, males, ratio, and education.

In 2023, more than 5.6 million women in Guatemala were between 15 and 64 years old. The youngest age range - from 0 to 14 years - is the only one where the male population exceeds that of women. That year, the population of Guatemala was estimated at 17.4 million inhabitants.

Guatemala: Ratio of female to male students in tertiary level education: The latest value from 2023 is 1.21 percent, an increase from 1.1 percent in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 1.16 percent, based on data from 62 countries. Historically, the average for Guatemala from 1970 to 2023 is 0.77 percent. The minimum value, 0.24 percent, was reached in 1970 while the maximum of 1.21 percent was recorded in 2023.

School enrollment, tertiary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) in Guatemala was reported at 1.2102 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Guatemala - Ratio of female to male tertiary enrollment - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

In 2024, Guatemala scored 0.56 in the gender gap index area of economic participation and opportunity. This means that women are 44 percent less likely to have equal economic participation and opportunities than men. The Central American country also scored 0.45 in estimated earned income, which means that, on average, women's income in Guatemala was estimated to represent only 45 percent of the income earned by men.

Constrained estimates of total number of people per grid square broken down by gender and age groupings (including 0-1 and by 5-year up to 90+) for Guatemala, version v1. The dataset is available to download in Geotiff format at a resolution of 3 arc (approximately 100m at the equator). The projection is Geographic Coordinate System, WGS84. The units are estimated number of male, female or both in each age group per grid square.

The difference between constrained and unconstrained you can read on this page: https://www.worldpop.org/methods/top_down_constrained_vs_unconstrained

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m = male, f= female, t = both genders

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• 00 = age group 0 to 12 months
• 01 = age group 1 to 4 years
• 05 = age group 5 to 9 years
• 90 = age 90 years and over

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Year that the population represents

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CN = Constrained , UC= Unconstrained

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Resolution of the data e.q. 100m = 3 arc (approximately 100m at the equator)

As of 2022, the average monthly income for the population in Guatemala was higher for males, amounting to 3,143 Guatemalan Quetzales, while for females, it was 2,335 Quetzales. Which means males in Guatemala earned around 34 percent more than their female counterparts.

WorldPop produces different types of gridded population count datasets, depending on the methods used and end application. Please make sure you have read our Mapping Populations overview page before choosing and downloading a dataset.

A description of the modelling methods used for age and sex structures can be found in "https://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-7954-11-11" target="_blank"> Tatem et al and Pezzulo et al. Details of the input population count datasets used can be found here, and age/sex structure proportion datasets here.
Both top-down 'unconstrained' and 'constrained' versions of the datasets are available, and the differences between the two methods are outlined here. The datasets represent the outputs from a project focused on construction of consistent 100m resolution population count datasets for all countries of the World structured by male/female and 5-year age classes (plus a <1 year class). These efforts necessarily involved some shortcuts for consistency. The unconstrained datasets are available for each year from 2000 to 2020.
The constrained datasets are only available for 2020 at present, given the time periods represented by the building footprint and built settlement datasets used in the mapping.
Data for earlier dates is available directly from WorldPop.

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00646

Between 2010 and 2022, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Guatemala increased among male and female adults. The share of women suffering from overweight or obesity was higher than that of men during the analyzed period. However, the share of men considered under this category increased at a rate higher than that of women.

In 2024, Barbados was the country with the highest gender pay gap index in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a score of 0.87. Guatemala, on the other hand, had the worst score in the region, at 0.45 points. This shows that, on average, women's income in Guatemala represents only 45 percent of the income received by men. Is the gender pay gap likely to be bridged? In a 2021 survey, 55 percent of respondents in Peru thought it was likely that women will be paid as much as men for the same work. This was one of the most optimistic perspectives when compared to the other Latin American nations surveyed. For instance, in Brazil, only one third of the adults interviewed said that this would be possible in the near future. Based on people's views on salary equality, Mexico was found to be one of the Latin American countries with the best wage equality perception index, which shows that the population's perceptions do not always match reality. In Mexico, the gender pay gap based on estimated income stood at 0.52. The software pay gap in Mexico The digital era does not necessarily favor income equality between genders. Recent data shows that men working in the Mexican software industry receive significantly higher monthly salaries than women or non-binary persons. Wage differences based on gender were specially noticeable in the field of software architecture, where a woman's salary represented, on average, only 60 percent of what a man would earn for performing the same tasks in a comparable position.

In recent years, evidence has been found that plant-pollinator interactions are altered by land-use and that genetic diversity also plays a role. However, how land-use and genetic diversity influence plant-pollinator interactions, particularly in the Neotropics, where many endemic plants exist is still an open question. Cucurbita pepo is a monoecious plant and traditional crop wide distributed, with high rates of molecular evolution, landraces associated with human cultural management and a history of coevolution with bees, which makes this species a promising model for studying the effect of landscape and genetic diversity on plant-pollinator interactions. Here, we assess 1) whether female and male flowers differences have an effect on the interaction network, 2) how C. pepo genetic diversity affects flower-bee visitation network structure, and 3) what is the effect that land-use, accounting for C. pepo genetic variability, has on pumpkin-bee interaction network variables. Our results indicate that female and male flowers presented the same community composition and network structure suggesting that the differences do not have a significant effect on network evolution. Genetic diversity has a positive effect on modularity, nestedness, and number of interactions, which, when considered, allows to observe how land-use variables can have an enhancing or buffering effect on nestedness. Our results suggest that considering genetic diversity is relevant for a better understanding of the effect of landscape on interaction networks. Additionally, this understanding has great value in conserving biodiversity and enhancing the stability of interaction networks in a world facing great challenges of habitat and diversity loss.

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Powell, Erin C., Miller, Douglass R. (2024): Three new species of Puto giant mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Putoidae) from Mexico and Guatemala, with keys to New World adult females and World adult males. Zootaxa 5443 (3): 301-336, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.3.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.3.1

In 2024, Nicaragua was the Latin American country with the highest gender gap index, with 0.81 points. Another Central American country, Guatemala, had the worst score in the region with 0.7 points. This means that, on average, Guatemalan women have 30 percent less opportunities than men in education, health, the economy, and politics.

Gender Inequality in Latin America
Based on a 2023 survey conducted among the populace in each nation, Mexico has been perceived as having the least gender-based wage equality, receiving a score of 0.5 out of 1, which is the lowest. In contrast, Barbados is regarded as the most gender-equal among the LATAM countries. Furthermore, the labor market exhibits a male bias, as women have consistently experienced higher unemployment rates over the years, with a rate of 11.3 percent as of 2021. Additionally, it is more common across the countries to observe a greater proportion of females experiencing higher poverty rates, with Mexican and Colombian women being the primary two groups representing this circumstance.

Literacy gender gap
As education progresses in both the educational and labor sectors, the goal is to ensure that basic literacy is accessible to everyone. However, research data reveals that the gender parity index for adult and youth literacy in Latin America remains at around 1 percent. This means that one woman out of 100 is less likely to possess literacy skills compared to men. Furthermore, this rate shows a significant gender gap, with 93.71 percent of females in this region accounting for this skill. Consequently, in the labor field, there are implications for skilled workers due to this literacy gap, resulting in higher rates of unemployment, a lack of training, and a non-educational population. This issue affects approximately 28.4 percent of women in Latin America.

A survey carried out in 2024 revealed that Mexico had the lowest score of gender wage equality for similar work among 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries surveyed. Mexico scored 0.52 points of a maximum of one, a grade that would represent perfect equality.The indicator is based on the perceptions of wage equality in each country. Respondents were asked to which extent, in a scale from one to seven, wages for women are equal to those of men. The answers were then converted into a females to males ratio, where zero represents the worst possible level of inequality and one, perfect equality. Based on the estimated earned income per capita, Guatemala had the worst gender pay gap in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Belize scored 0.73 in the gender gap index area of economic participation and opportunity. This shows that women are at a 27 percent disadvantage in the economy in comparison to men. The country scored 0.71 in estimated earned income, which represents that, on average, women in Belize only earn 71 percent of the income earned by men. Along with Guatemala, and Dominican Republic, Belize had one of the worst gender gap index scores in Latin America and the Caribbean.