Guatemala
Telephones - main lines in use:
846,000 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1,577,100 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of
Guatemala
domestic: NA
international: country code - 502; connected to Central American
Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)
Radios:
835,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
1.323 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.gt
Internet hosts:
20,360 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2000)
Internet users:
400,000 (2002)
Transportation Guatemala
Railways: total: 886 km narrow gauge: 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2004)
Highways:
total: 14,118 km
paved: 4,871 km (including 74 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,247 km (1999)
Waterways:
990 km
note: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable
during high-water season (2004)
Pipelines:
oil 480 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Puerto Quetzal, Santo Tomas de Castilla
Airports:
452 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 441
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 109
under 914 m: 323 (2004 est.)
Military Guatemala
Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force
Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 30 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18–49: 3,020,292 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18–49: 2,106,847 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 161,964 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$201.9 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.8% (2003)
Transnational Issues Guatemala
Disputes - international:
Guatemalan squatters continue to settle in the rain forests of
Belize's border region; OAS is attempting to revive the 2002 failed
Differendum that created a small adjustment to land boundary, a
Guatemalan maritime corridor in Caribbean, a joint ecological park
for the disputed Sapodilla Cays, and a substantial US-UK financial
package; Guatemalans enter Mexico illegally seeking work or transit
to the US
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 250,000 (government's scorched-earth offensive in 1980s
against indigenous people) (2004)
Illicit drugs:
major transit country for cocaine and heroin; minor producer of
illicit opium poppy and cannabis for mostly domestic consumption;
proximity to Mexico makes Guatemala a major staging area for drugs
(particularly for cocaine); money laundering is a serious problem;
corruption is a major problem; remains on Financial Action Task
Force Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories List for continued
failure to address deficiencies in money-laundering control regime
This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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