Guatemalans
|
|
| Total population | |
|---|---|
|
World ±15,000,000 |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Guatemala 13,276,517 |
|
 United States |
1,044,209 a |
 Mexico
|
~35,225 - 50,000 b |
 Canada
|
~14,399 - 16,000 c |
 Honduras
|
~14,156- 15,000 |
 Belize
|
~9,377 - 10,000 |
 Germany
|
5,989 |
 El Salvador
|
4,209 |
 Spain
|
2,491 |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, English and 24 indigenous linguistic groups of Amerindian languages. | |
|
aGuatemalan American cGuatemalan Mexican |
|
Guatemalan people (Spanish: Pueblo guatemalteco (collective), Guatemaltecos (individuals)) refers to all persons who identify with Guatemala, a multiethnic country in Central America. Guatemalans are mainly of Mestizos (mixed European and Amerindian heritage), indigenous people or Amerindians and descendants from European people. Guatemalans are also nicknamed chapines by other mainly Spanish-speaking countries of the Latin America.
Guatemala has a population of 15,824,463 (2014 est). In 1900, Guatemala had a population of 885,000. Guatemala had the fastest population growth in the Western Hemisphere during 20th century. Approximately the half of the Guatemalan population live in poverty and 13.7% of them live in extreme poverty.
Guatemala is heavily centralized. Transportation, communications, business, politics, and the most relevant urban activity takes place in Guatemala City. Guatemala City has about 2 million inhabitants within the city limits and more than 5 million within the wider urban area. This is a significant percentage of the population (14 million).
The estimated median age in Guatemala is 20 years old, 19.4 for males and 20.7 years for females. This is the lowest median age of any country in the Western Hemisphere and comparable to most of central Africa and Iraq.
According to the Census of 2010 by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) about 41.0% of the population is Mestizo (called Ladino), Whites of European descent also called Criollo represent the 18.5% in their majority descendants of Spanish descent follow by the descendants of Germans, French, Italians, English, Swedish, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Russian, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and the rest of Europe. And The Amerindian populations include the K'iche' 11.0%, Q'eqchi 8.3%, Kaqchikel 7.8%, Mam 5.2% and 7.6% of the population is "other Mayan", 0.4% is indigenous non-Mayan, making the indigenous community in Guatemala about 38.9% of the population.
...
Wikipedia