Demographics of Guatemala

Rank	Department	Pop.	Rank	Department	Pop.	Department	Pop.
1	Guatemala	3,306,397	10	Totonicapán	18	Retalhuleu	325,556
2	Huehuetenango	1,234,593	11	Sololá	19	Baja Verapaz	291,903
3	Alta Verapaz	1,219,585	12	Jutiapa	20	Zacapa	291,903
4	San Marcos	1,095,997	13	Izabal	445,125
5	Quetzaltenango	844,906	14	Chiquimula	397,202
6	Escuintla	746,309	15	Santa Rosa	367,569
7	Petén	711,585	16	Jalapa	345,926
8	Chimaltenango	666,938	17	Sacatepéquez	336,606
9	Suchitepéquez	555,261	18	Total	--	15,806,675 (2014)
Source: National Institute of Statistics (INE).

The Demographics of Guatemala are diverse, the 16,548,168 people (June 2016) consist primarily of mestizos, Amerindians, and people of European descent. The population is divided almost evenly between rural and urban areas. About 60% of the population speak Spanish, with nearly all the rest speaking Amerindian languages (there are 23 officially recognized Amerindian languages).

According to official 2012 national statistics, 39.8% of the population is indigenous.

According to the 2015 revision of the CIA World Factbook the total population estimate was 14,918,999. 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.

Guatemala City, the largest city in Central America, is home to over 3 million inhabitants. In 1900 Guatemala had a population of 885,000. Over the twentieth century Guatemala's population grew by a factor of fourteen. No other western hemisphere country saw such rapid growth.

The Guatemalan civil war from 1960 to 1996 provoked migration of Guatemalans, with a large majority of those leaving for foreign countries living in the United States. According to the International Organization for Migration, the total number of emigrants increased from 6,700 in the 1960s to 558,776 for the period 1995-2000, by 2005 the total number had reached 1.3 million. In 2013, the MPI estimated that there are around 900,000 people of Guatemalan origin in the United States.

Ethnic Groups in Guatemala %

Official 2012 statistics indicate that approximately 60.2% of the population is "non-indigenous", referring to the mestizo population and the people of European origin. These people are called Ladino in Guatemala.

Approximately 39.8% of the population is indigenous and consist of 23 Maya groups and one non-Maya group. These are divided as follows: (K'iche 9.1%, 8.4% Kaqchikel, Mam 7.9%, 6.3% Q'eqchi', other Maya peoples 8.6%, 0.2% indigenous non-Maya). They live all over the country, especially in the highlands.

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