CAPITALE: Guatemala City, pop. 754 243 (1981).
LANGUAGE: Spanish (official) 35% of the people speak Quiche.
There are 23 autochthonous languages.
POPULATION:
Total: 8,000,000 (1985)
Annual growth: 2.8% (224,000) (1980)
Doubling time: 22 yrs.
Urban: 40% (1985) (est. for year 2000: 54%)
Rural: 60%
AGE GROUPS: (1981)
18% Jess than 5 yrs.
45% Jess than 15
56% Jess than 20
27% from 20 to 39
13% from 40 to 59
5% 60 yrs. and over
ETHNIC GROUPS
Mestizo and Ladinized Indian: 47%
Indian: 43%
FAMILY
Marital status, for population 15 yrs. and older: (1981)
Single: 25%
Married: 35%
Common-law: 28%
Widowed: 8%
Divorced or separated: 4%
Female head of household: 14% (1981)
Fertility rate: 5.9 (1985)
Birtbs out of wedlock: 51% (1980-81)
Teenage births: 18% (1979)
Contraception: 25% (1984)
Government’ s position on family planning: Does not express a point of view on the rate of population growth or the leve! of fertility, but there is a national family-planning program.
HOUSING
Persons per household: 5.2 (1985)
Electricity: 61% without (1980)
Access to safe water: 51% (urban: 99%; rural: 55%) (1983)
Source of water: (1980)
River and other: 68%
Private well: 15%
Public standpipe: 11%
Public weil: 11%
Toilet facilities: ( 1980)
Pit: 28%
None: 48%
Other: 24%
Building materials: (1980)
Adobe: 36%
Wood: 31%
Concrete: 13%
Cane: 10%
Cane and earth: 7%
Other: 4%
SOCIAL INDICATORS
Life expectancy: 61 yrs. (male: 59; female: 62) (1985)
Infant mortality: 65/1,000 births (1985)
Crude birth rate: 42/1,000 pop. (1985)
Crude death rate: 10/1,000
Health
Access to health services: 34% (urban: 99%; rural: 55%) (1980- 83)
Births attended by trained health personnel: no data
EDUCATION
Literacy: 46% (male: 54%; female: 38%) (1973)
Gross enrollment ratio: (1982-84)
First leve!: 76% (completing in 1980-84: 38%)
Second: 17%
Third: 7%
Educational attainment, for population 25 yrs. + : (1973)
None: 94%
First leve!: 38%
Second: entered: 5%
Third: 1%
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
Economically active population: 28% (male: 48%; female: 8% (1981)
Agriculture: 55% act. pop.; 25% of GDP
Mines: 1% act. pop.; 1% of GDP
Industry: 17% act. pop.; 19% of GDP
Services: 27% act. pop.; 55% of GDP
Per capita GNP: 1,250 U.S.$ (1985)
Population in absolute poverty: (1977-84)
Urban: 21%
Rural: 25%
National currency/per U.S.$: 1.00 quetzal (1985)
Principal resources: Corn, coffee
COMMUNICATION
Radio:
Transmitters: ll5 (1979)
Receivers: 340,000-43/1,000 pop. (1983)
Television:
Transmitters: no data
Receivers: 203,000- 26/1,000 pop. (1983)