2025
| International Property Rights Index

Guatemala

Region

Latin America & Caribbean

Global Rank

88/126

Regional Rank

14/21

Score

4.161

Guatemala is rejoining the IPRI 2025 edition after having withdrawn in 2022, due to a lack of sufficient data. Therefore, a comparative evaluation, which is typically conducted with respect to the immediately preceding year, is not provided below

 

Guatemala’s IPRI score is 4.161 placing it 14th in the Latin America & Caribbean region and 88th in the world. Guatemala is classified by the IMF as part of the Latin America and the Caribbean group and by the World Bank as Upper middle income country.

 

Guatemala’s Legal and Political Subindex is 3.454 with scores of 3.459 in Judicial Independence, 2.849 in Rule of Law, 4.752 in Political Stability, and 2.757 in Control of Corruption.

 

Guatemala’s Physical Property Rights Subindex is 4.154 with scores of 5 in perception of Property Rights Protection, 3.063 in Registering Property, and 4.4 in Ease of Access to Loans.

 

Guatemala’s Intellectual Property Rights Subindex is 4.873 with scores of 4.47 in perception of Intellectual Property Protection, 4.6 in Patent Protection, data wasn't available to measure Copyright Protection, and 5.55 in Trademark Protection.

 

Guatemala is a member of the following regional integration agreements

  • PARLACEN
  • MCCA

Guatemala - IPRI Overall Score

Guatemala - IPRI Overall Score

  • 1: IPRI
  • 2: Legal and Political Subindex
  • 3. Judicial Independence
  • 4. Rule of Law
  • 5. Control of Corruption
  • 6. Political Stability
  • 7. Physical Property Rights Subindex
  • 8. Property Rights Protection
  • 9. Registering Property
  • 10. Ease of Access to Loans
  • 11. Intellectual Property Rights Subindex
  • 12. Intellectual Property Rights
  • 13. Patent Protection
  • 14. Copyright Protection
  • 15. Trademark Protection

Guatemala - IPRI Overall Score

Guatemala - Legal and Political Environment

Guatemala - Physical Property Rights

Guatemala - Intellectual Property Rights