iders (ISPs):

5 (2000)

Internet users:

1.32 million (2006)

Transportation
Guatemala

Airports:

402 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 12
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 3 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 390
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 82
under 914 m: 301 (2007)

Pipelines:

oil 480 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 886 km
narrow gauge: 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:

total: 14,095 km
paved: 4,863 km (includes 75 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,232 km (2000)

Waterways:

990 km
note: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable
during high-water season (2007)

Ports and terminals:

Puerto Quetzal, Santo Tomas de Castilla

Military
Guatemala

Military branches:

Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force

Military service age and obligation:

all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 are liable for
military service; conscript service obligation varies from 12 to 24
months; women can serve as officers (2007)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 2,861,696
females age 16-49: 3,062,967 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 2,310,272
females age 16-49: 2,622,450 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 161,550
female: 159,760 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

0.4% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Guatemala

Disputes - international:

annual ministerial meetings under the OAS-initiated Agreement on the
Framework for Negotiations and Confidence Building Measures continue
to address Guatemalan land and maritime claims in Belize and the
Caribbean Sea; the Line of Adjacency created under the 2002
Differendum serves in lieu of the contiguous international boundary
to control squatting in the sparsely inhabited rain forests of
Belize's border region; Mexico must deal with thousands of
impoverished Guatemalans and other Central Americans who cross the
porous border looking for work in Mexico and the United States

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

IDPs: undetermined (the UN does not estimate there are any IDPs,
although some NGOs estimate over 200,000 IDPs as a result of over
three decades of internal conflict that ended in 1996) (2007)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Guatemala is a sour