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Intelrift Geoeconomic Index· Edition 1 · Q4 2026

Guatemala

33.1

Moderate · 30+Rank 107 of 192+0.2 against the previous edition · #90 → #107Americas · Central America · 5 of 5 sub-indices available
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Rank in its region18 / 35Americas
Rank in its income group40 / 59Upper-middle income
Comparable countriesCameroonIGE 33.0 · distance 6.3Comparable countriesHondurasIGE 36.1 · distance 7.0

Comparable countries

Nearest in the five-dimensional sub-index space (euclidean distance over shared dimensions).

What would move the score

  • Chokepoints±2.5 points
  • Sanctions±2.5 points
  • Commodity concentration±2.0 points
  • Institutional fragility±1.5 points
  • Sovereign stress±1.5 points

Change in the IGE if one sub-index moved by 10 points, with this country's effective weights.

Sub-indices against the regional and global mean

CountryRegional meanGlobal mean

Source: Intelrift, IGE. Simple means of covered countries.Data through 19 October 2026

History by edition

Hollow points are retrospectives: past years computed with the current method, without newsroom events and with the current snapshot of the sanctions lists.

Source: Intelrift, IGEData through 19 October 2026

Key factors

What drives the score

  • Control of corruption (WGI): 29.4 (2025), risk percentile 82.source
  • Logistics performance (LPI): 2.6 (2022), risk percentile 74.source
  • Designations linked to the country: 79 (2026), risk percentile 69.source
  • Intelrift daily country risk: 33 (2026), risk percentile 60.source

Each factor comes from a sourced, dated input; the percentile says where the country sits among those covered.

How it is calculated

Weights, coverage and provenance

Chokepoints31Effective 25 %
Sanctions27Effective 25 %
Commodity concentration28Effective 20 %
Institutional fragility63Effective 15 %
Sovereign stress24Effective 15 %

5 of 5 sub-indices available · ige-v1

Provenance hash

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SHA-256 of the canonical JSON of the inputs, their sources and periods, the winsorisation bounds and the weights. Same inputs, same hash.

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Sub-index inputs

Chokepoints · 30.6

How much of the country's GDP depends on six maritime passages (Hormuz, Suez, Malacca, Bab el-Mandeb, Panama, Bosphorus) staying open, plus its imported-energy dependence, logistics performance and whether it is landlocked.

Exposure to the main chokepoint (2025)11.6 % of GDP · percentile 19
Total chokepoint exposure (2025)13.3 % of GDP · percentile 7
Net energy import dependence (2024)40 % · percentile 43
Fuel share of imports (2025)14.2 % · percentile 42
Landlocked (transit dependence) (2026)no · percentile 0
Logistics performance (LPI) (2022)2.6 · percentile 74

Sanctions · 26.5

Whether the jurisdiction is under a sanctions regime (and how intense), how many people and entities linked to the country appear on the OFAC, EU, UN and UK lists, how many on US export-control lists, and how much it trades with sanctioned partners.

Jurisdiction-level sanctions regimeno regime · percentile 0
Designations linked to the country (2026)79 · percentile 69
Designations under country programmes (2026)9 · percentile 42
Entities under US export controls (2026)0 · percentile 0
Exposure to sanctioned partners (2023)37.1 · percentile 21

Commodity concentration · 28.1

Concentration of exports and imports by product group (Herfindahl index), fuel and food share of imports, natural resource rents over GDP and terms-of-trade volatility.

Export concentration (HHI) (2025)0.43 · percentile 27
Import concentration (HHI) (2025)0.48 · percentile 47
Fuel and food share of imports (2025)31.1 % · percentile 42
Natural resource rents (2021)1.9 % of GDP · percentile 6
Terms-of-trade volatility (2024)7.4 % · percentile 18

Institutional fragility · 63.3

Rule of law, political stability, government effectiveness and control of corruption (WGI), the INFORM index, battle deaths, homicides and new conflict displacements per capita, and the quarter's political and security events recorded by Intelrift.

Rule of law (WGI) (2025)41.6 · percentile 81
Political stability and absence of violence (WGI) (2025)61.9 · percentile 48
Government effectiveness (WGI) (2025)36.5 · percentile 77
Control of corruption (WGI) (2025)29.4 · percentile 82
INFORM risk index (2026)5.9 · percentile 71
Battle-related deaths per 100,000 peopleinsufficient data
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people (2023)23.37 · percentile 73
New conflict displacements per 1,000 people (2025)0.03 · percentile 1
Political and security events (90 days) (2026)75.2 · percentile 75
Terror and narco incidents (90 days) (2026)insufficient data

Sovereign stress · 24.4

Reserves in months of imports, current account balance, inflation, depreciation against the dollar, external debt and its service, short-term debt over reserves, broad money over reserves, interest over revenue and Intelrift's daily country risk.

Reserves in months of imports (2025)9.3 months · percentile 35
Current account balance (2025)4.7 % of GDP · percentile 30
Annual inflation (2025)1.5 % · percentile 6
Annual depreciation against the dollar (2025)-1 % · percentile 30
External debt to GNI (2024)24.2 % · percentile 11
Debt service to exports (2024)9.6 % · percentile 17
Short-term debt to reserves (2024)0.7 % · percentile 0
Broad money to reserves (2025)2.3× · percentile 10
Interest payments to revenue (2024)12.5 % · percentile 45
Intelrift daily country risk (2026)33 · percentile 60