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Guatemalan population
Guatemala

 

The Guatemalan population is mostly mestizo or indigenous.

Guatemala has an approximate population of 16,051,208 inhabitants (2014), with an average density of 142.6 inhabitants per square kilometer.

It is mostly mestizo (41%) or indigenous (39.9%), but there is also a white (18.5%) and black (1.0%) presence, given its history of multiple invasion presence (Spanish, Belgian, German and American).

The Guatemalan population faces significant levels of poverty and social and economic inequality, estimated at approximately 55% poverty, of which 15% is in extreme poverty, and mainly constituted by rural poverty (82%).

The illiteracy rate is around 30% of the population and life expectancy is 65 years. 

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Guatemala Economy

 

Considered the tenth economy in Latin America, 

Guatemala is a developing country. 

Its main economic area is agriculture, since it is the world's largest exporter of cardamom, fifth in sugar exports and seventh in coffee production. 

Another vital economic sector is tourism, which generates its second largest inflow of foreign currency to the country, as well as remittances from Guatemalans who emigrated mainly to the United States. 

where there would be about 1.2 million inhabitants, most of them undocumented.

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Guatemalan culture

Guatemala  dance

Guatemala preserves indigenous traditions hybridized with the Catholic one. 

Guatemala is a secular country, that is, without an official religion, although the Catholic (45%) and Evangelical (44%) religions are the most predominant numerically, and there is a syncretic variant of the polytheistic, pagan, Mayan religion that pays worship to Rilaj Maam ("The Great Grandfather").

 

Many indigenous traditions are preserved hybridized with the Catholic and are practiced on festive dates, in traditional dances and meals. 

On the other hand, the official language is Spanish, although many of the country's numerous ethnic groups speak it as a second language or do not speak it at all. 

There are twenty-one Mayan languages ​​spoken in rural areas in Guatemala; a non-Mayan Amerindian language, called Xinca, spoken in the southeast of the country; and an Arawak language, called Garífuna, spoken on the Atlantic coast of the same. 

In addition, Guatemala is the fourth Latin American country in number of English speakers. 

Guatemala's contribution to Hispanic literature has as its greatest exponent Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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