What are Guatemala's labor force, participation, unemployment and informality rates, and how do they differ across metro, other urban and rural areas?

The ENEI has been replaced by the ENEIC (Continuous National Employment and Income Survey), quarterly since 2024. Fourth-quarter 2024 results: a labor force of 7.8 million (aged 15 and over), 21.8% metropolitan urban, 37.1% other urban and 41.1% rural; overall participation rate 67.1% in INE's revised series (ENEIC Bulletin No. 1 and the Q4-2024 to Q1-2026 results presentation), with 70.7% in metropolitan urban, 68.8% in other urban and 63.8% in rural areas; open unemployment 1.7% (metropolitan 3.4%, other urban 1.5%, rural 1.0%); visible underemployment 14.6% (rural 15.7%, metropolitan 14.0%, other urban 13.8%); informality 67.9% (rural 78.2%, other urban 66.7%, metropolitan 50.1%), the latter three per the original Q4 release (June 2025). Key limitation: the ENEIC publishes by study domain, not by department; the departmental labor force comes from the 2018 Census (REDATAM).