Even though Guatemala's population grew by a factor of 14, it still wasn't the biggest jump in that region.

This phenomenon, known as child marriage, is prevalent in Central America; in rural areas of Guatemala, 53% of 20 to 24-year-old women married before their 18th birthday.

Once married, young girls are likely to abandon their education and are exposed to domestic and sexual violence.

[23] Because there is limited access to health services, women in Guatemala choose a different alternative when it comes to the care during and after child delivery.

Pregnancies before marriage are on the rise and unmarried women make their decision based on their image more than their safety.

[24] Single Guatemalan women may choose midwives as their health care provider during pregnancy and delivery to avoid feeling ashamed.

[24] Throughout the country, midwives are known as the providers of choice for approximately 80% of the births even though they are not professionally trained.

In 2012 these are divided as follows: K'iche 9.1%, 8.4% Kaqchikel, Mam 7.9%, 6.3% Q'eqchi', other Maya peoples 8.6%, 0.2% Indigenous non-Maya.

[26] In 2002 Census, The Amerindian populations in Guatemala include the K'iche' 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9% and Q'eqchi 6.3%.

In 1996, a peace treaty was signed by the government that ended internal conflicts within the region, which caused over 200,000 casualties and approximately one million refugees.

[28] Other racial groups include numbers of Afro-Guatemalans, Afro-Mestizos, and Garifuna of mixed African and Indigenous Caribbean origins who live in the country's eastern end.

[29] In 2014, numerous members of the Hasidic communities Lev Tahor and Toiras Jesed began settling in the village of San Juan La Laguna.

Despite the tropical heat, the members of the community continued to wear traditional Jewish clothing.

[30][31] Guatemala has a community of East Asian descent, largely of Chinese and Korean origin.

[32] There are thousands of Arab Guatemalans descending from West Asian countries like Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.

[35] Catholicism was the official religion during the colonial era, and today is the most professed church in the population, but since the 1960s, with the armed conflict, Protestantism has increased progressively, today around two fifths of Guatemalans are Protestant, specially Evangelicals (with Pentecostals as the biggest branch).