Guatemala City — UN urban centre
Guatemala City: 2,837,708 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #175 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2063; territory: Guatemala (GTM). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 14.5984, -90.5446. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,081,260 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,220,560 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,342,241 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,478,191 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,770,823 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,070,954 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,351,530 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,596,495 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,722,724 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,741,179 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,837,708 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,954,173 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,067,032 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,145,681 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,257,945 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,316,118 | Projection |
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