• Population............................................................................................18,255,216 (2024 est.)
• Population growth rate ..............................................................................1.49% (2024 est.)
• Birth rate................................................................21.4 births/1,000 population (2024 est.)
• Death rate...............................................................4.9 deaths/1,000 population (2024 est.)
• Net migration rate..............................................-1.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2024 est.)
• Ethnic groups.....................................Mestizo (mixed Indigenous-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) 56%, Maya 41.7%, Xinca (Indigenous, non-Maya) 1.8%, African descent 0.2%, Garifuna (mixed West and Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak) 0.1%, foreign 0.2% (2018 est.)

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