Population in Guatemala compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Guatemala and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Guatemala	North Korea	Guatemala	North Korea
1960	4,063,655	11,722,953	-	-
1961	4,186,201	11,990,713	3.02%	2.28%
1962	4,312,044	12,262,882	3.01%	2.27%
1963	4,440,264	12,567,057	2.97%	2.48%
1964	4,571,109	12,889,770	2.95%	2.57%
1965	4,704,965	13,219,369	2.93%	2.56%
1966	4,840,958	13,569,094	2.89%	2.65%
1967	4,978,862	13,958,350	2.85%	2.87%
1968	5,118,111	14,365,596	2.8%	2.92%
1969	5,257,081	14,767,615	2.72%	2.8%
1970	5,396,966	15,172,775	2.66%	2.74%
1971	5,538,355	15,572,457	2.62%	2.63%
1972	5,682,833	15,975,069	2.61%	2.59%
1973	5,831,631	16,350,367	2.62%	2.35%
1974	5,981,197	16,673,121	2.56%	1.97%
1975	6,128,731	16,971,055	2.47%	1.79%
1976	6,262,404	17,243,450	2.18%	1.61%
1977	6,401,515	17,492,798	2.22%	1.45%
1978	6,561,534	17,735,995	2.5%	1.39%
1979	6,727,797	17,983,470	2.53%	1.4%
1980	6,900,212	18,236,786	2.56%	1.41%
1981	7,075,648	18,501,295	2.54%	1.45%
1982	7,240,241	18,776,357	2.33%	1.49%
1983	7,419,642	19,054,034	2.48%	1.48%
1984	7,630,682	19,335,043	2.84%	1.47%
1985	7,849,693	19,620,388	2.87%	1.48%
1986	8,070,818	19,910,855	2.82%	1.48%
1987	8,296,485	20,205,483	2.8%	1.48%
1988	8,532,099	20,503,161	2.84%	1.47%
1989	8,775,546	20,804,367	2.85%	1.47%
1990	9,024,773	21,112,137	2.84%	1.48%
1991	9,272,584	21,428,638	2.75%	1.5%
1992	9,522,266	21,750,911	2.69%	1.5%
1993	9,779,761	22,073,352	2.7%	1.48%
1994	10,043,718	22,393,975	2.7%	1.45%
1995	10,312,996	22,669,304	2.68%	1.23%
1996	10,583,526	22,895,746	2.62%	1%
1997	10,857,754	23,110,830	2.59%	0.94%
1998	11,139,145	23,311,564	2.59%	0.87%
1999	11,422,965	23,497,599	2.55%	0.8%
2000	11,697,592	23,665,910	2.4%	0.72%
2001	11,969,422	23,815,358	2.32%	0.63%
2002	12,246,915	23,943,973	2.32%	0.54%
2003	12,525,842	24,090,380	2.28%	0.61%
2004	12,807,402	24,254,943	2.25%	0.68%
2005	13,087,629	24,396,433	2.19%	0.58%
2006	13,367,459	24,524,507	2.14%	0.52%
2007	13,652,040	24,646,383	2.13%	0.5%
2008	13,935,174	24,764,618	2.07%	0.48%
2009	14,215,611	24,878,332	2.01%	0.46%
2010	14,500,112	24,987,258	2%	0.44%
2011	14,792,126	25,097,874	2.01%	0.44%
2012	15,089,647	25,211,728	2.01%	0.45%
2013	15,387,337	25,329,451	1.97%	0.47%
2014	15,681,725	25,451,262	1.91%	0.48%
2015	15,971,743	25,575,350	1.85%	0.49%
2016	16,268,760	25,698,326	1.86%	0.48%
2017	16,567,357	25,817,709	1.84%	0.46%
2018	16,845,685	25,931,147	1.68%	0.44%
2019	17,103,803	26,037,632	1.53%	0.41%
2020	17,357,325	26,136,312	1.48%	0.38%
2021	17,598,650	26,232,534	1.39%	0.37%
2022	17,847,877	26,328,845	1.42%	0.37%
2023	18,124,838	26,418,204	1.55%	0.34%
2024	18,406,359	26,498,823	1.55%	0.31%
2025	18,687,873	26,571,033	1.53%	0.27%
2026	18,967,974	26,633,682	1.5%	0.24%
2027	19,246,005	26,686,492	1.47%	0.2%
2028	19,521,501	26,729,261	1.43%	0.16%
2029	19,795,168	26,762,008	1.4%	0.12%
2030	20,067,252	26,784,894	1.37%	0.09%
2031	20,337,369	26,797,946	1.35%	0.05%
2032	20,605,385	26,801,071	1.32%	0.01%
2033	20,871,083	26,795,061	1.29%	-0.02%
2034	21,134,167	26,780,481	1.26%	-0.05%
2035	21,394,231	26,757,705	1.23%	-0.09%
2036	21,650,331	26,727,309	1.2%	-0.11%
2037	21,901,955	26,689,907	1.16%	-0.14%
2038	22,149,197	26,646,323	1.13%	-0.16%
2039	22,391,079	26,596,967	1.09%	-0.19%
2040	22,626,859	26,542,417	1.05%	-0.21%
2041	22,856,760	26,483,475	1.02%	-0.22%
2042	23,080,838	26,420,812	0.98%	-0.24%
2043	23,299,226	26,354,324	0.95%	-0.25%
2044	23,512,005	26,284,000	0.91%	-0.27%
2045	23,719,080	26,210,196	0.88%	-0.28%
2046	23,920,450	26,132,922	0.85%	-0.29%
2047	24,115,734	26,052,086	0.82%	-0.31%
2048	24,305,641	25,967,581	0.79%	-0.32%
2049	24,491,000	25,879,244	0.76%	-0.34%
2050	24,670,850	25,787,120	0.73%	-0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Guatemala increased by 2,884,114 people (a 22% growth), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Guatemala gained 2,941,129 (a 18.4% growth), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Guatemala was ranked 68th most populous country in 2005 and is 70th in 2025. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2005 and ranked 56th 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 North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.