Passage: Guatemala became more economically developed and stable from 1990-2011. The annual gross domestic product growth rate for Guatemala in 2000 was 3.6%, but just 0.9% in 2009, increasing slightly in 2010 to 2.0% The poverty rate in Guatemala in 2006 was 54.8%, and the extreme poverty rate was 26.1%. Latin America as a whole had a poverty rate of 33% and an extreme poverty rate of 12.9% in 2009. The data indicate that Guatemala is behind other Latin American countries, in terms of lowering poverty rates, but there has been an increase in economic activity in terms of gross domestic product and development. Guatemala’s human development index increased from 0.462 in 1990, to 0.525 in 2000, to 0.550 in 2005, and 0.574 in 2011.3 Guatemala ranked 131st in human development index in 2011. Other important human development statistics such as the total fertility rate in Guatemala decreased from 4.8 births per woman in 2000 to 4.2 births per woman in 2006. During the same period, life expectancy increased from 67.9 years in 2000, to 69.9 years in 2006.
How many percent higher was the annual gross domestic product growth rate for Guatemala in 2000 than it was in 2009? How many percent higher was the poverty rate in Guatemala in 2006 then the extreme poverty rate? In Guatemala in 2006, which was higher, the extreme poverty rate or the poverty rate? Was the total fertility rate in Guatemala higher in 2000 or in 2006?