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In Guatemala in 2010, 31% of the female population was illiterate. [32] In rural Guatemala, 70.5% are poor; women are more likely to be poor in the more rural areas. [33] Gammage argues that women in poor households engage more in domestic tasks and undertake more household maintenance, social reproduction and care work than men. [34]
While there is a positive GDP growth of 4.5 percent in that same fiscal year in Guatemala, [1] it has done little to reduce poverty. With economic growth bearing no absolute causality on poverty reduction, there is a need for the social determinants of poverty to be looked into. According to Vlahov, et al.,
Guatemala: 0.629 0.627 0.663 ... List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty; List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP growth;
Poverty lines for other sets of countries have also been revised upwards. The poverty line for lower middle-income countries (LMICs) has moved to US$3.65 from US$3.20, while the poverty line for upper middle-income countries (UMICs) has moved to US$6.85 from US$5.50. [6]
This standard is quantified to mean an average income of less than $1.9 (US $) a day. Such poverty thus increasingly grew by "half a million" from the time of 2000–2014 [1] With increasingly high poverty and a lack thereof appropriate education in 2016 prompted the World Bank partnership with Guatemala through the partnership. [2]
Latin American and the Caribbean countries by GDP per capita PPP (2019). This is a list of Latin American and the Caribbean countries by gross domestic product at purchasing power parity in international dollars according to the International Monetary Fund's estimates in the October 2023 World Economic Outlook database.
Guatemala has a population of 17,153,288 (July 2020 est). [6] In 1900, Guatemala had a population of 885,000. [7] Guatemala had the fastest population growth in the Western Hemisphere during 20th century. Approximately half of the Guatemalan population lives in poverty and 13.7% of them live in extreme poverty. Guatemala is heavily centralized.
The Islamic community in Guatemala is growing, and is projected to include at least 2,000 believers by 2030. [37] There is a mosque in Guatemala City called the Islamic Da'wah Mosque of Guatemala (Spanish: Mezquita de Aldawaa Islámica). The president of the Islamic Community of the country is Jamal Mubarak.