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Population in Guatemala compared to Sri Lanka: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Guatemala was 18,406,359 in 2024 vs 21,916,000 people in Sri Lanka in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Guatemala's population is 18,912,872 people compared to 22,125,995 in Sri Lanka.

Population statistics:

  • Sri Lanka's population is 1.17 times bigger than Guatemala's.
  • Guatemala is ranked the 70th most populous country in the world, while Sri Lanka is the 63rd.
  • The countries together account for 0.5% of the world: 0.23% for Guatemala vs 0.27% for Sri Lanka.
  • For the last 10 years, Guatemala has had an average growth rate of +1.64% per year vs +0.57% in Sri Lanka.
  • Since 2005, the population of Guatemala has increased from 13.1M people to 18.9M (44.5% growth), while Sri Lanka has grown from 20.2M to 22.1M (9.45% growth).
  • Guatemala is projected to reach its peak in 2077 at 27.2M people compared to the peak of 23.5M people in 2051 for Sri Lanka.

Guatemala vs Sri Lanka: live population counter

Guatemala Sri Lanka
Current population
18912872
22125995
Population rank 70/197 63/197
Percent of world population 0.23% 0.27%
One net population change
1.87 minutes
4.34 minutes
One birth every
1.39 minutes
2.13 minutes
One death every
6.01 minutes
2.91 minutes
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
19.3 minutes
Annual migration change -7,725 -27,245
Daily growth/decline +771 -332
Annual growth/decline +281,521 -121,000
Annual growth/decline rate +1.55% -0.55%
Population growth rate rank 71/197 187/197

Guatemala and Sri Lanka: population history and growth rate by year chart

Guatemala
Population

Growth rate
Sri Lanka
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Guatemala Sri Lanka Guatemala Sri Lanka
1960 4,063,655 9,661,389 - -
1961 4,186,201 9,899,372 3.02% 2.46%
1962 4,312,044 10,143,754 3.01% 2.47%
1963 4,440,264 10,395,040 2.97% 2.48%
1964 4,571,109 10,653,397 2.95% 2.49%
1965 4,704,965 10,916,965 2.93% 2.47%
1966 4,840,958 11,183,928 2.89% 2.45%
1967 4,978,862 11,457,328 2.85% 2.44%
1968 5,118,111 11,736,088 2.8% 2.43%
1969 5,257,081 12,013,858 2.72% 2.37%
1970 5,396,966 12,287,110 2.66% 2.27%
1971 5,538,355 12,551,910 2.62% 2.16%
1972 5,682,833 12,809,205 2.61% 2.05%
1973 5,831,631 13,060,916 2.62% 1.97%
1974 5,981,197 13,305,693 2.56% 1.87%
1975 6,128,731 13,548,984 2.47% 1.83%
1976 6,262,404 13,796,770 2.18% 1.83%
1977 6,401,515 14,049,371 2.22% 1.83%
1978 6,561,534 14,310,128 2.5% 1.86%
1979 6,727,797 14,579,614 2.53% 1.88%
1980 6,900,212 14,847,974 2.56% 1.84%
1981 7,075,648 15,099,414 2.54% 1.69%
1982 7,240,241 15,286,567 2.33% 1.24%
1983 7,419,642 15,388,794 2.48% 0.67%
1984 7,630,682 15,441,860 2.84% 0.34%
1985 7,849,693 15,544,154 2.87% 0.66%
1986 8,070,818 15,731,256 2.82% 1.2%
1987 8,296,485 15,916,576 2.8% 1.18%
1988 8,532,099 16,078,621 2.84% 1.02%
1989 8,775,546 16,248,557 2.85% 1.06%
1990 9,024,773 16,352,458 2.84% 0.64%
1991 9,272,584 16,475,354 2.75% 0.75%
1992 9,522,266 16,739,284 2.69% 1.6%
1993 9,779,761 17,025,918 2.7% 1.71%
1994 10,043,718 17,275,773 2.7% 1.47%
1995 10,312,996 17,564,068 2.68% 1.67%
1996 10,583,526 17,905,018 2.62% 1.94%
1997 10,857,754 18,248,200 2.59% 1.92%
1998 11,139,145 18,596,003 2.59% 1.91%
1999 11,422,965 18,944,731 2.55% 1.88%
2000 11,697,592 19,293,054 2.4% 1.84%
2001 11,969,422 19,600,362 2.32% 1.59%
2002 12,246,915 19,805,752 2.32% 1.05%
2003 12,525,842 19,951,521 2.28% 0.74%
2004 12,807,402 20,087,605 2.25% 0.68%
2005 13,087,629 20,216,524 2.19% 0.64%
2006 13,367,459 20,352,411 2.14% 0.67%
2007 13,652,040 20,492,545 2.13% 0.69%
2008 13,935,174 20,629,378 2.07% 0.67%
2009 14,215,611 20,756,435 2.01% 0.62%
2010 14,500,112 20,879,089 2% 0.59%
2011 14,792,126 21,009,048 2.01% 0.62%
2012 15,089,647 21,169,458 2.01% 0.76%
2013 15,387,337 20,585,000 1.97% -2.76%
2014 15,681,725 20,778,000 1.91% 0.94%
2015 15,971,743 20,970,000 1.85% 0.92%
2016 16,268,760 21,209,000 1.86% 1.14%
2017 16,567,357 21,453,000 1.84% 1.15%
2018 16,845,685 21,670,000 1.68% 1.01%
2019 17,103,803 21,803,000 1.53% 0.61%
2020 17,357,325 21,919,000 1.48% 0.53%
2021 17,598,650 22,156,000 1.39% 1.08%
2022 17,847,877 22,181,000 1.42% 0.11%
2023 18,124,838 22,037,000 1.55% -0.65%
2024 18,406,359 21,916,000 1.55% -0.55%
2025 18,687,873 22,035,440 1.53% 0.54%
2026 18,967,974 22,148,172 1.5% 0.51%
2027 19,246,005 22,255,601 1.47% 0.49%
2028 19,521,501 22,357,682 1.43% 0.46%
2029 19,795,168 22,453,922 1.4% 0.43%
2030 20,067,252 22,546,245 1.37% 0.41%
2031 20,337,369 22,635,106 1.35% 0.39%
2032 20,605,385 22,720,118 1.32% 0.38%
2033 20,871,083 22,802,043 1.29% 0.36%
2034 21,134,167 22,879,527 1.26% 0.34%
2035 21,394,231 22,952,739 1.23% 0.32%
2036 21,650,331 23,022,027 1.2% 0.3%
2037 21,901,955 23,088,877 1.16% 0.29%
2038 22,149,197 23,152,480 1.13% 0.28%
2039 22,391,079 23,211,633 1.09% 0.26%
2040 22,626,859 23,265,986 1.05% 0.23%
2041 22,856,760 23,315,260 1.02% 0.21%
2042 23,080,838 23,359,578 0.98% 0.19%
2043 23,299,226 23,398,752 0.95% 0.17%
2044 23,512,005 23,433,096 0.91% 0.15%
2045 23,719,080 23,464,943 0.88% 0.14%
2046 23,920,450 23,492,738 0.85% 0.12%
2047 24,115,734 23,512,629 0.82% 0.08%
2048 24,305,641 23,525,953 0.79% 0.06%
2049 24,491,000 23,533,940 0.76% 0.03%
2050 24,670,850 23,538,230 0.73% 0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Guatemala increased by 2,884,114 people (a 22% growth), while Sri Lanka gained 753,476 people (a 3.73% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Guatemala gained 2,941,129 (a 18.4% growth), while Sri Lanka's population increased by 1,155,995 (a 5.51% growth).

Guatemala was ranked 68th most populous country in 2005 and is 70th in 2025. Sri Lanka was ranked 53rd in 2005 and ranked 63rd 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 Sri Lanka will increase by 6.38% to 23,538,230 people and rank change from 63rd to 70th.

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