Guatemala: 400 km (2026 edition) · Uganda: 0 km (2026 edition)

Uganda’s highest peak towers 890 m above Guatemala’s

Guatemala: 4,220 m (2026 edition) · Uganda: 5,110 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 80% of Uganda, versus 46% of Guatemala

Guatemala: 46% (2024) · Uganda: 80.3% (2024)

Uganda has 2.7 times as many people as Guatemala

Guatemala: 18.7 million (2025) · Uganda: 51.4 million (2025)

Uganda is 47% more densely populated than Guatemala

Guatemala: 174 per km² (2025) · Uganda: 256 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Guatemala is 6.1 years older than in Uganda

Guatemala: 22.6 years (2023) · Uganda: 16.5 years (2023)

Women in Uganda have 1.9 more children on average than in Guatemala

Guatemala: 2.29 children per woman (2024) · Uganda: 4.17 children per woman (2024)

5.0% of people in Guatemala are 65 or older, versus 2.2% in Uganda

Guatemala: 5% (2025) · Uganda: 2.2% (2025)

Uganda hosts 444 times as many refugees per resident as Guatemala

Guatemala: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Uganda: 37.7 per 1,000 (2025)

Guatemala has produced 1.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Uganda none

Guatemala: 1.1 (2026) · Uganda: 0 (2026)

Uganda has 2 official languages, Guatemala 1

Guatemala: 1 (2026) · Uganda: 2 (2026)

Guatemala’s economy is 2 times the size of Uganda’s

Guatemala: $123 billion (2025) · Uganda: $62 billion (2025)

Guatemala produces 4.4 times as much per person as Uganda

Guatemala: Int$15,197 (2025) · Uganda: Int$3,488 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Guatemala than in Uganda (Gini 7 points higher)

Guatemala: 45.2 (2023) · Uganda: 38.2 (2023)

54% of people in Uganda live on less than $3 a day, versus 9.7% in Guatemala

Guatemala: 9.7% (2023) · Uganda: 54.4% (2023)

Uganda and Guatemala are practically level

Guatemala: 2.6% (2025) · Uganda: 2.7% (2025)

Uganda spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, Guatemala 0.5%

Guatemala: 0.5% (2025) · Uganda: 2% (2025)

Uganda’s central government collects 13% of GDP in tax, Guatemala’s 12%

Guatemala: 11.6% (2024) · Uganda: 12.6% (2024)

Guatemala’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Uganda’s

Guatemala: 43% (2025) · Uganda: 35% (2025)

Guatemala spends 8.7 times as much on health per person as Uganda

Guatemala: $392 (2023) · Uganda: $45 (2023)

A baby in Uganda is 2.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Guatemala

Guatemala: 17.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Uganda: 35.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Guatemala has 6.7 times as many doctors per person as Uganda

Guatemala: 1.3 per 1,000 (2020) · Uganda: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Guatemala: 0.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Uganda: no data

The suicide rate in Uganda is 3.1 times that in Guatemala

Guatemala: 5.5 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 17.2 per 100k (2023)

27% of adults in Guatemala are obese, versus 8.2% in Uganda

Guatemala: 26.7% (2024) · Uganda: 8.2% (2024)

11% of adults in Guatemala smoke, versus 7.5% in Uganda

Guatemala: 11.2% (2024) · Uganda: 7.5% (2024)

People in Guatemala rate their lives 2.04 points higher than in Uganda

Guatemala: 6.53 (2025) · Uganda: 4.49 (2025)

Adults in Uganda drink 32% more alcohol than in Guatemala

Guatemala: 3.1 litres (2023) · Uganda: 4 litres (2023)

Guatemala has 5 times as much meat per person as Uganda

Guatemala: 54.3 kg (2023) · Uganda: 10.9 kg (2023)

Guatemala has 445 kcal more food per person per day than Uganda

Guatemala: 2,823 kcal (2023) · Uganda: 2,378 kcal (2023)

Workers in Guatemala put in 23 more hours a year than in Uganda

Guatemala: 2,151 hours (2023) · Uganda: 2,128 hours (2023)

Adults in Uganda went to school 0.48 years longer than in Guatemala

Guatemala: 5.8 years (2023) · Uganda: 6.3 years (2023)

Guatemala welcomed 2.3 times as many tourists per resident as Uganda (2019)

Guatemala: 0.08 (2022) · Uganda: 0.04 (2019)

Guatemala has 1 more World Heritage site than Uganda (4 against 3)

Guatemala: 4 (2026) · Uganda: 3 (2026)

Uganda has won 13 Olympic medals, Guatemala 3

Guatemala: 3 (2026 edition) · Uganda: 13 (2026 edition)

60% of people in Guatemala are online, versus 8.9% in Uganda

Guatemala: 60% (2024) · Uganda: 9% (2024)

Home internet in Guatemala is 2.8 times as fast as in Uganda

Guatemala: 149 Mbps (2026) · Uganda: 53 Mbps (2026)

91% of people in Guatemala have electricity, versus 55% in Uganda

Guatemala: 90.9% (2024) · Uganda: 55.3% (2024)

56% of people in Guatemala live in cities, versus 32% in Uganda

Guatemala: 56% (2025) · Uganda: 32% (2025)

Guatemala has 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Uganda 83

Guatemala: 113 (2024) · Uganda: 83 (2024)

Uganda’s railway network is 55% longer than Guatemala’s

Guatemala: 800 km (2018) · Uganda: 1,244 km (2014)

Airlines from Guatemala fly 28 times as many passengers per resident as those from Uganda

Guatemala: 0.01 (2023) · Uganda: 0.00042 (2023)

Forest covers 33% of Guatemala, but only 12% of Uganda

Guatemala: 33.1% (2024) · Uganda: 11.9% (2024)

The average person in Guatemala emits 8.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Uganda

Guatemala: 1.1 t (2024) · Uganda: 0.1 t (2024)

97% of Uganda’s electricity is renewable, versus 68% in Guatemala

Guatemala: 68.3% (2024) · Uganda: 97.1% (2024)

The air in Uganda carries 35% more fine dust than in Guatemala

Guatemala: 27.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Uganda: 37.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.6 times as likely to be murdered in Guatemala as in Uganda

Guatemala: 23.4 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 9 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Uganda are 14% deadlier than in Guatemala

Guatemala: 21.1 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 24.1 per 100k (2023)

Uganda and Guatemala are practically level

Guatemala: 23.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 23.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Guatemala gets 23% more rain than Uganda

Guatemala: 1,811 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 1,470 mm (2016–2025 avg)