- ISO 3166
GT- Primary locale
es-GT- Currency
- GTQ · Guatemalan Quetzal
- Region
- LATAM
Guatemala
Guatemala has 18.3M people, and 11M of them are online. Spanish is the most widely spoken language at 88%, one of 16 languages CLDR lists here. Spanish is official nationally, and Kaqchikel and Kʼicheʼ are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to es-GT.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
11M
0%world median 81%100%
60% of 18.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$6,598
Higher than 42% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
38%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
16
Spanish 88% · Kaqchikel 9% · Qʼeqchiʼ 9%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
510
Very lowVery high
Moderate proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
76%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Guatemala
share of 18.3M people
- Spanishofficial88%16.1M
- Kaqchikelregional9%1.6M
- Qʼeqchiʼ9%1.6M
- Kʼicheʼregional9%1.6M
- Mam5%839.7K
- English3%565.9K
- Q'anjob'al1%219.1K
- Poqomchi'1%219.1K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 8 more languages sit below the top eight, at 4.3% combined.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against es-GT, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
3
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
6:30 p. m.
Week starts Sun
Currency
Q 1,234.56
1,234.56 in GTQ · Guatemalan Quetzal