Guatemala: Human Rights Atlas

Human Development Index 1995-96

Human Development Index (HDI)

source: United Nations Development Programme, Guatemala: los contrastes del desarrollo humano (Guatemala: Naciones Unidas, 1998), 199
compare with HDI worldwide
linguistic communities of Guatemala

Indigenous Population 1994

indigenous population

source: United Nations Development Programme, Guatemala: los contrastes del desarrollo humano (Guatemala: Naciones Unidas, 1998), 220

Extent of exclusion from basic needs

index of social exclusion

Percentage of population without access to basic health care

% without access to basic healthcare

source: United Nations Development Programme, Guatemala: los contrastes del desarrollo humano (Guatemala: Naciones Unidas, 1998), 200

Percentage of homes suffering from overcrowding

% homes suffering frrom overcrowding

Secondary school attendence

% of relevant age group in secondary school

Number of land conflicts brought to CONTIERRA for resolution to November 1997

number of land conflicts

source: United Nations Development Programme, Guatemala: los contrastes del desarrollo humano (Guatemala: Naciones Unidas, 1998), 102

Homicides per 100,000, 1996

homicides per 100,000

source: United Nations Development Programme, Guatemala: los contrastes del desarrollo humano (Guatemala: Naciones Unidas, 1998), 149

Massacres during civil war

massacres during civil war

source: Commission for Historical Clarification, Guatemala: Memory of Silence, February 1999

last updated: 7 January 2000

© 1999 Andrew Reding, Project Director and Senior Fellow for Hemispheric Affairs, World Policy Institute


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