World population/Guatemala
North America
Population of Guatemala
18,967,983
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#69
world rank
0.23%
of world population
+1.47%
yearly change
+278,031
people this year
380,396
births a year
93,481
deaths a year
How the figure for Guatemala is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Guatemala at 18,967,983 on 1 July 2026, and projects 19,246,014 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Guatemala at number 69 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.23 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 380,396 births and 93,481 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.