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Population in Guatemala compared to the Marshall Islands: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Guatemala was 18,406,359 in 2024 vs 37,548 people in the Marshall Islands in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Guatemala's population is 18,912,872 people compared to 36,281 in the Marshall Islands.

Population statistics:

  • Guatemala's population is 521 times bigger than the Marshall Islands'.
  • Guatemala is ranked the 70th most populous country in the world, while the Marshall Islands is the 192nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.23% of the world: 0.23% for Guatemala vs 0.0004% for the Marshall Islands.
  • For the last 10 years, Guatemala has had an average growth rate of +1.64% per year vs -2.69% in the Marshall Islands.
  • Since 2005, the population of Guatemala has increased from 13.1M people to 18.9M (44.5% growth), while the Marshall Islands has declined from 51.9K to 36.3K (30.1% decline).
  • Guatemala is projected to reach its peak in 2077 at 27.2M people, while the Marshall Islands' population already peaked in 2010 at 52K people and is projected to decrease to 23.8K people by 2100.

Guatemala vs Marshall Islands: live population counter

Guatemala Marshall Islands
Current population
18912872
36281
Population rank 70/197 192/197
Percent of world population 0.23% 0.0004%
One net population change
1.87 minutes
6.85 hours
One birth every
1.39 minutes
10.7 hours
One death every
6.01 minutes
1.35 days
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
4.96 hours
Annual migration change -7,725 -1,765
Daily growth/decline +771 -4
Annual growth/decline +281,521 -1,279
Annual growth/decline rate +1.55% -3.29%
Population growth rate rank 71/197 197/197

Guatemala and the Marshall Islands: population history and growth rate by year chart

Guatemala
Population

Growth rate
Marshall Islands
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Guatemala Marshall Islands Guatemala Marshall Islands
1960 4,063,655 14,703 - -
1961 4,186,201 15,219 3.02% 3.51%
1962 4,312,044 15,755 3.01% 3.52%
1963 4,440,264 16,302 2.97% 3.47%
1964 4,571,109 16,852 2.95% 3.37%
1965 4,704,965 17,402 2.93% 3.26%
1966 4,840,958 17,927 2.89% 3.02%
1967 4,978,862 18,655 2.85% 4.06%
1968 5,118,111 19,862 2.8% 6.47%
1969 5,257,081 21,305 2.72% 7.27%
1970 5,396,966 22,530 2.66% 5.75%
1971 5,538,355 23,366 2.62% 3.71%
1972 5,682,833 23,992 2.61% 2.68%
1973 5,831,631 24,581 2.62% 2.45%
1974 5,981,197 25,296 2.56% 2.91%
1975 6,128,731 26,154 2.47% 3.39%
1976 6,262,404 27,021 2.18% 3.31%
1977 6,401,515 27,906 2.22% 3.28%
1978 6,561,534 28,809 2.5% 3.24%
1979 6,727,797 29,738 2.53% 3.22%
1980 6,900,212 30,774 2.56% 3.48%
1981 7,075,648 32,017 2.54% 4.04%
1982 7,240,241 33,397 2.33% 4.31%
1983 7,419,642 34,811 2.48% 4.23%
1984 7,630,682 36,264 2.84% 4.17%
1985 7,849,693 37,761 2.87% 4.13%
1986 8,070,818 39,286 2.82% 4.04%
1987 8,296,485 40,828 2.8% 3.93%
1988 8,532,099 42,321 2.84% 3.66%
1989 8,775,546 43,586 2.85% 2.99%
1990 9,024,773 44,629 2.84% 2.39%
1991 9,272,584 45,568 2.75% 2.1%
1992 9,522,266 46,388 2.69% 1.8%
1993 9,779,761 47,093 2.7% 1.52%
1994 10,043,718 47,712 2.7% 1.31%
1995 10,312,996 48,266 2.68% 1.16%
1996 10,583,526 48,775 2.62% 1.05%
1997 10,857,754 49,259 2.59% 0.99%
1998 11,139,145 49,717 2.59% 0.93%
1999 11,422,965 50,202 2.55% 0.98%
2000 11,697,592 50,706 2.4% 1%
2001 11,969,422 51,123 2.32% 0.82%
2002 12,246,915 51,425 2.32% 0.59%
2003 12,525,842 51,639 2.28% 0.42%
2004 12,807,402 51,791 2.25% 0.29%
2005 13,087,629 51,906 2.19% 0.22%
2006 13,367,459 51,992 2.14% 0.17%
2007 13,652,040 52,035 2.13% 0.08%
2008 13,935,174 52,030 2.07% -0.01%
2009 14,215,611 52,019 2.01% -0.02%
2010 14,500,112 52,044 2% 0.05%
2011 14,792,126 51,907 2.01% -0.26%
2012 15,089,647 51,419 2.01% -0.94%
2013 15,387,337 50,681 1.97% -1.44%
2014 15,681,725 49,796 1.91% -1.75%
2015 15,971,743 48,800 1.85% -2%
2016 16,268,760 47,709 1.86% -2.24%
2017 16,567,357 46,529 1.84% -2.47%
2018 16,845,685 45,285 1.68% -2.67%
2019 17,103,803 44,007 1.53% -2.82%
2020 17,357,325 42,706 1.48% -2.96%
2021 17,598,650 41,367 1.39% -3.14%
2022 17,847,877 40,077 1.42% -3.12%
2023 18,124,838 38,827 1.55% -3.12%
2024 18,406,359 37,548 1.55% -3.29%
2025 18,687,873 36,281 1.53% -3.37%
2026 18,967,974 35,078 1.5% -3.32%
2027 19,246,005 33,976 1.47% -3.14%
2028 19,521,501 32,977 1.43% -2.94%
2029 19,795,168 32,054 1.4% -2.8%
2030 20,067,252 31,191 1.37% -2.69%
2031 20,337,369 30,420 1.35% -2.47%
2032 20,605,385 29,740 1.32% -2.23%
2033 20,871,083 29,142 1.29% -2.01%
2034 21,134,167 28,608 1.26% -1.83%
2035 21,394,231 28,147 1.23% -1.61%
2036 21,650,331 27,751 1.2% -1.41%
2037 21,901,955 27,405 1.16% -1.25%
2038 22,149,197 27,092 1.13% -1.14%
2039 22,391,079 26,836 1.09% -0.94%
2040 22,626,859 26,598 1.05% -0.89%
2041 22,856,760 26,396 1.02% -0.76%
2042 23,080,838 26,217 0.98% -0.68%
2043 23,299,226 26,054 0.95% -0.62%
2044 23,512,005 25,913 0.91% -0.54%
2045 23,719,080 25,777 0.88% -0.52%
2046 23,920,450 25,653 0.85% -0.48%
2047 24,115,734 25,543 0.82% -0.43%
2048 24,305,641 25,429 0.79% -0.45%
2049 24,491,000 25,311 0.76% -0.46%
2050 24,670,850 25,195 0.73% -0.46%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Guatemala increased by 2,884,114 people (a 22% growth), while the Marshall Islands lost 3,106 people (a 5.98% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Guatemala gained 2,941,129 (a 18.4% growth), while the Marshall Islands' population decreased by -12,519 (a 25.7% decline).

Guatemala was ranked 68th most populous country in 2005 and is 70th in 2025. The Marshall Islands was ranked 188th in 2005 and ranked 192nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Guatemala's population will grow by 30.4% to 24,670,850 people with a rank change from 70th to 67th. The population of the Marshall Islands will decrease by 30.6% to 25,195 people and rank change from 192nd to 193rd.

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