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Guatemala is often best understood through remittance-driven consumption and basic manufacturing, with inflation control and domestic financial stability shaping the durability of the growth cycle. The cleanest read usually comes from remittance inflows, household demand, and whether policy stability keeps local rates and the currency backdrop anchored.
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Key facts
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Source: INE Guatemala,
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A remittance-supported economy where consumption, manufacturing, and monetary stability drive the local backdrop.
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Guatemala starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Available variables
Source: INE Guatemala,
Trade and external position
The latest available data show exports of $18.0B and imports of $35.6B, leaving an external balance of −$17.6B. Services account for 25.8% of total exports.
This is the broadest external-demand read for Guatemala, because it combines merchandise shipments with cross-border services such as travel, transport, finance, and business services.
This is the merchandise side of the export machine for Guatemala, useful for judging industrial, energy, and manufacturing exposure in the trade mix.
This shows how much Guatemala monetizes travel, logistics, finance, software, licensing, and other non-merchandise external flows.
Trade partners
Commodity lens
Trade in goods and services equaled 47.3% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 25.9% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 45.9% of merchandise exports in 2024.
Fuel exports accounted for 2.9% of merchandise exports in 2024, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 47.5% of merchandise exports in 2024, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Source: World Bank API: totalExports,
What to watch
Guatemala should first be read through remittance inflows. When this regime shifts, local how highly shares are valued and sector leadership usually shift with it.
The cleanest read usually comes from remittance inflows, household demand, and whether policy stability keeps local rates and the currency backdrop anchored. That makes domestic consumption one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
The final layer is monetary stability, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable profits support for the Guatemala Market Proxy.
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Real GDP growth
What This Signals
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 0.8%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.