La educación en Guatemala es un tema de vital importancia, que requiere principal interés

del Estado y de la sociedad en general. Según el Comité Nacional de Alfabetización,

Guatemala tiene un índice de analfabetismo de cerca del 12,31%, equivalente a un millón
241 mil 32 de guatemaltecos mayores de 15 años que no saben leer ni escribir (Conalfa,
2017).
En el departamento de Guatemala se registran los siguientes datos de personas mayores de
15 años analfabetas.

2006 Total 2011 2014 Total

Hombre Mujer Hombre Mujer Total Hombre Mujer
95.786 88.461 91

2006 2011 2014

Hombre Mujer Total Hombre Mujer Total Hombre Mujer Total

Población de 15 años y más

Total 81.786 68.875 74.779 83.598 70.463 76.65 84.759 74.042 79.103 Ver

Departamento

Guatemala 95.748 88.461 91.778 93.76 87.507 90.369 94.418 88.681 91.35

El Progreso 84.874 77.775 81.185 84.802 79.319 81.888 85.024 84.381 84.696

Sacatepéquez 93.438 80.254 86.736 90.646 81.13 85.616 93.626 84.554 88.947

Chimaltenango 84.304 71.971 77.746 87.494 72.209 79.294 88.339 77.961 82.762

Escuintla 77.489 74.381 75.858 85.018 77.593 81.263 85.469 77.418 81.255

Santa Rosa 79.352 70.035 74.386 84.183 75.872 79.89 83.367 80.41 81.858

Sololá 65.076 49.643 56.901 74.421 56.801 65.229 80.477 59.024 69.087

Totonicapán 80.957 54.984 66.198 80.23 58.605 68.313 82.175 62.507 71.403

Quetzaltenango 86.437 70.297 77.314 87.833 73.058 79.676 88.886 78.602 83.314

Suchitepéquez 77.323 61.612 68.837 81.181 65.942 73.359 84.032 69.357 76.366

Retalhuleu 85.668 69.133 76.927 83.68 70.754 76.974 87.157 74.507 80.63

San Marcos 78.701 63.424 70.25 84.179 63.109 73.034 86.503 73.206 79.637

Huehuetenango 71.794 55.688 62.524 78.921 53.842 65.68 80.035 64.5 71.861

Quiché 66.239 38.112 50.758 69.803 47.966 58.339 74.516 52.926 62.9

Baja Verapaz 73.287 54.056 62.928 77.183 61.552 68.762 79.783 67.023 73.027

Alta Verapaz 69.052 46.538 56.756 73.86 48.615 61 73.084 54.721 63.437

Petén 82.755 70.778 76.759 80.157 69.175 74.632 82.94 80.264 81.565

Izabal 77.643 68.071 72.627 81.736 74.942 78.224 80.868 74.798 77.773

Zacapa 79.488 72.287 75.686 81.035 76.237 78.543 81.284 78.554 79.783

Chiquimula 69.074 65.348 67.071 75.239 69.051 72.052 68.84 66.682 67.696

Jalapa 70.535 62.338 66.174 80.276 73.074 76.421 80.935 68.699 74.79

Jutiapa 76.575 68.616 72.345 80.201 74.976 77.426 82.58 76.316 79.352

Jóvenes de 15 a 24 años

Total 91.365 84.778 87.828 93.648 88.72 91.11 94.904 91.834 93.332 Ver

Departamento

Guatemala 96.659 96.428 96.539 97.65 96.386 96.996 96.941 94.77 95.842

El Progreso 95.099 94.033 94.549 94.759 91.062 92.787 96.301 95.26 95.806

Sacatepéquez 97.582 93.89 95.839 93.372 93.249 93.307 98.214 96.364 97.305
Chimaltenango 95.651 89.034 92.141 99.196 89.682 94.2 95.995 97.43 96.786

Escuintla 92.329 90.901 91.549 93.58 88.082 90.712 95.911 95.612 95.76

Santa Rosa 91.361 88.999 90.087 95.337 96.115 95.734 93.775 94.621 94.174

Sololá 84.282 73.345 78.491 90.94 86.411 88.651 95.784 91.166 93.461

Totonicapán 92.652 82.409 86.779 93.375 87.805 90.575 97.03 91.162 93.883

Quetzaltenango 92.226 88.099 89.918 96.187 95.97 96.067 95.568 95.446 95.503

Suchitepéquez 88.918 82.65 85.76 92.118 91.708 91.915 93.35 93.247 93.301

Retalhuleu 94.758 89.732 92.258 93.997 86.665 90.308 96.005 92.199 94.11

San Marcos 91.942 83.82 87.38 93.582 89.46 91.453 97.173 95.844 96.52

Huehuetenango 79.835 76.551 77.878 93.634 76.072 84.323 93.948 87.661 90.727

Quiché 87.624 62.149 73.327 86.539 73.251 79.491 89.366 83.012 85.924

Baja Verapaz 89.838 79.646 84.629 93.693 85.77 89.617 92.647 87.279 89.925

Alta Verapaz 88.499 70.505 77.961 90.852 80.309 85.703 93.204 83.038 87.816

Petén 90.147 88.474 89.317 91.57 90.591 91.076 94.833 94.836 94.834

Izabal 88.814 85.354 87.16 90.978 90.05 90.542 96.994 95.024 95.979

Zacapa 89.367 87.772 88.524 92.491 93.001 92.736 92.256 93.661 92.978

Chiquimula 82.768 82.35 82.556 85.437 85.933 85.677 84.509 85.275 84.908

Jalapa 86.693 70.473 78.07 94.225 90.231 92.024 92.3 86.529 89.564

Jutiapa 92.447 85.672 89.06 92.031 92.132 92.084 96.698 95.681 96.184