World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Guatemala Lower-middleGuatemala income group 2000 2007 2007
Economic and social context Population (total, million) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method (current US$) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–07 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% of ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%) Sector structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Sector performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscrib.) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Price basket for residential fixed line (US$/month) Price basket for mobile service (US$/month) Price basket for Internet service (US$/month) Price of call to United States (US$ for 3 minutes) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications ICT expenditure (% of GDP) E-government Web measure indexc Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, Dec. 2008)
11 45 1,730 4.1 69 58
13 48 2,450 3.6 73 67
3,435 42 1,905 8.0 83 68
Latin America & the Caribbean Region 2007
561 78 5,801 3.6 91 81
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000
Yes Private
Yes Private
C C C
C C C
2.2 434 —
— — —
0
10.4 76.0 — 2.1 50
2002 2004 2006 2007 Guatemala Latin America & the Caribbean Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 80
3.1 624 25.3
3.8 530 —
60 40 20 0
6.0 7.6 — 1.2 39
2000
15.3 38.9 6.0 4.6 79
18.1 67.0 4.5 11.3 84
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 80
— — 0.7
— — 10.1
— 322 12.4
— 116 26.9
60 40 20
54 — 1
76 — 187
80 40.4 199
91 81.7 1,126
11.0 — — 0.76
9.8 6.1 53.3 1.21
7.2 9.8 16.7 2.08
9.5 10.4 25.7 1.21
0.1 9.2 0.5
0.5 9.1 14.8
20.6 20.2 15.6
11.4 15.9 4.7
0
2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Guatemala Latin America & the Caribbean Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 20 15 10 5 0
— — 1.0
— 0.47 8.0
6.5 0.33 1.8
4.9 0.44 18.2
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Guatemala Latin America & the Caribbean Region
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: Global Insight/WITSA, IMF, ITU, Netcraft, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources. Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. — Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal. a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0–1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.
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