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{{Infobox place demographics|place=[[Guam]]|image=File:Guam single age population pyramid 2020.png|image_size=350|caption=Population pyramid of Guam in 2020|size_of_population=169,086 (2022 est.)|nation=Guamanian (US Citizens)|age_0–14_years=27.22%|age_65_years=9.54%|growth=0.16% (2022 est.)|birth=18.56 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)|death=6.03 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)|net_migration=-10.96 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)|sr_at_birth=1.07 male(s)/female|sr_under_15=1.07 male(s)/female|sr_65_years_over=0.71 male(s)/female|total_mf_ratio=1.06 male(s)/female (2022 est.)|infant_mortality=11.46 deaths/1,000 live births|life=77.5 years|life_male=75.07 years|life_female=80.08 years|fertility=2.78 children born/woman (2022 est.)}}

The '''demographics of [[Guam]]''' details an array of demographic statistics relating to the territory of Guam. This includes statistics on population, including the Indigenous population; religious affiliations; language; and immigration. The Demographics of Guam provides an overview of the history of Guam, as well as a depiction of the villages in the United States territory and its populace. The population of Guam, as of July 2021 was 168,801.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Guam – The World Factbook|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/guam/|access-date=2021-05-19|website=cia.gov}}</ref>

The demographics of Guam include the [[demographics|demographic]] features of the [[population]] of [[Guam]], including [[population density]], [[Ethnic group|ethnicity]], education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

== Population ==
While there are no large cities in Guam, the populace resides in villages.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|last=Rogers|first=Robert F.|title=Guam A Neocolonial Anachronism|date=2011-06-30|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824833343.003.0017|work=Destiny's Landfall|pages=286–288|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|doi=10.21313/hawaii/9780824833343.003.0017|isbn=978-0-8248-3334-3|access-date=2021-05-19|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The most populated village in Guam is Dededo, with a population of 44,943 in 2010.<ref name=":0" /> The Indigenous people of Guam are known as the Chamorro people, and are the largest ethnic group in Guam. This group is categorised as a minority group in the United States territory.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Perez|first=Michael P.|title=Colonialism, Americanization, and Indigenous Identity: A Research Note on Chamorro Identity in Guam|date=2005-09-01|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02732170500176138|journal=Sociological Spectrum|volume=25|issue=5|pages=571–591|doi=10.1080/02732170500176138|s2cid=145393169 |issn=0273-2173|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The 2021 mean age in the territory of Guam was 31.4 years.<ref name=":0" /> Guam is the largest and most populated of the territories in the Mariana Islands.<ref name=":1" />

The population density of Guam is approximately 310 people per square kilometer. The total land area is 544&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=":0" /> 94.9% of Guam's population lives in urban regions.<ref name=":0" />{{US Census population
|1910=11806
|1920=13275
|1930=18509
|1940=22290
|1950=59498
|1960=67044
|1970=84996
|1980=105979
|1990=133152
|2000=154805
|2010=159358
|2020=168485
}}

In the [[2020 United States census|2020 U.S. census]], Guam had a population of 153,836. This was a 3.5 percent decrease from the population of 159,358 in the [[2010 United States census|2010 census]].<ref>{{cite web |url =https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/island-areas/guam/population-and-housing-unit-counts/guam-phc-table01.pdf |title =Population of Guam: 2010 and 2020 |publisher =U.S. Census Bureau |date =28 October 2021 |access-date=22 February 2022 }}</ref>

===Structure of the population===

Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2021) (Including armed forces stationed in the area.):<ref>{{cite web | url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/dyb_2021/ | title=UNSD – Demographic and Social Statistics }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="80pt"|Age Group
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80pt"|Female
! width="80pt"|Total
! width="80pt"|%
|-
| align="right" | Total
| align="right" | 86 910
| align="right" | 81 891 
| align="right" | 168 801
| align="right" | 100
|-
| align="right" | 0–4
| align="right" | 8 032
| align="right" | 7 525
| align="right" | 15 557
| align="right" | 9.22
|-
| align="right" | 5–9
| align="right" | 7 973 
| align="right" | 7 461
| align="right" | 15 434
| align="right" | 9.14
|-
| align="right" | 10–14
| align="right" | 7 663
| align="right" | 7 088
| align="right" | 14 751
| align="right" | 8.74
|-
| align="right" | 15–19
| align="right" | 7 087
| align="right" | 6 296
| align="right" | 13 383
| align="right" | 7.93
|-
| align="right" | 20–24
| align="right" | 7 342
| align="right" | 6 165
| align="right" | 13 507
| align="right" | 8.00
|-
| align="right" | 25–29
| align="right" | 6 740
| align="right" | 5 916
| align="right" | 12 656
| align="right" | 7.50
|-
| align="right" | 30–34
| align="right" | 5 787
| align="right" | 5 376
| align="right" | 11 163
| align="right" | 6.61
|-
| align="right" | 35–39
| align="right" | 4 866
| align="right" | 4 626
| align="right" | 9 492
| align="right" | 5.62
|-
| align="right" | 40–44
| align="right" | 4 412
| align="right" | 4 372
| align="right" | 8 784
| align="right" | 5.20
|-
| align="right" | 45–49
| align="right" | 4 735
| align="right" | 4 656
| align="right" | 9 391
| align="right" | 5.56
|-
| align="right" | 50–54
| align="right" | 5 245
| align="right" | 4 767
| align="right" | 10 012
| align="right" | 5.93
|-
| align="right" | 55–59
| align="right" | 5 149
| align="right" | 4 792
| align="right" | 9 941
| align="right" | 5.89
|-
| align="right" | 60–64
| align="right" | 4 121
| align="right" | 3 981
| align="right" | 8 102
| align="right" | 4.80
|-
| align="right" | 65–69
| align="right" | 3 121
| align="right" | 3 193
| align="right" | 6 314
| align="right" | 3.74
|-
| align="right" | 70–74
| align="right" | 2 354
| align="right" | 2 558
| align="right" | 4 912
| align="right" | 2.91
|-
| align="right" | 75–79
| align="right" | 1 201
| align="right" | 1 402
| align="right" | 2 603
| align="right" | 1.54
|-
| align="right" | 80–84
| align="right" | 717
| align="right" | 1 027
| align="right" | 1 744
| align="right" | 1.03
|-
| align="right" | 85–89
| align="right" | 279
| align="right" | 525
| align="right" | 804
| align="right" | 0.48
|-
| align="right" | 90–94
| align="right" | 75
| align="right" | 140
| align="right" | 215 
| align="right" | 0.13
|-
| align="right" | 95–99
| align="right" | 10
| align="right" | 23
| align="right" | 33
| align="right" | 0.02
|-
| align="right" | 100+
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 3
| align="right" | <0.01
|-
! width="50"|Age group 
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80"|Female
! width="80"|Total
! width="50"|Percent
|-
| align="right" | 0–14
| align="right" | 23 668
| align="right" | 22 074
| align="right" | 45 742
| align="right" | 27.10
|-
| align="right" | 15–64
| align="right" | 55 484
| align="right" | 50 947
| align="right" | 106 431
| align="right" | 63.05
|-
| align="right" | 65+
| align="right" | 7 758
| align="right" | 8 870
| align="right" | 16 628
| align="right" | 9.85
|-
|}

==Births and deaths==
<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm | title=National Vital Statistics Reports
| date=4 March 2024
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Live births, deaths, and infant deaths, latest available year |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/vitstats/seratab3.pdf |publisher=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="70"|Year
! width="70"|Population
! width="70"|Live births
! width="70"|Deaths
! width="70"|Natural increase
! width="70"|Crude birth rate
! width="70"|Crude death rate
! width="70"|Rate of natural increase
! width="70"|TFR
|-
| align="right" | 2009
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,391
| align="right" | 835
| align="right" | 2,556
| align="right" | 19.8
| align="right" | 4.7
| align="right" | 15.1
| align="right" | 2.72
|-
| align="right" | 2010
| align="right" | 159,358
| align="right" | 3,416
| align="right" | 857
| align="right" | 2,559
| align="right" | 21.4
| align="right" | 5.4
| align="right" | 16.0
| align="right" | 3.00
|-
| align="right" | 2011
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,298
| align="right" | 842
| align="right" | 2,456
| align="right" | 20.6
| align="right" | 5.3
| align="right" | 15.3
| align="right" | 2.86
|-
| align="right" | 2012
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,590
| align="right" | 883
| align="right" | 2,707
| align="right" | 22.4
| align="right" | 5.5
| align="right" | 16.9
| align="right" | 3.15
|-
| align="right" | 2013
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,285
| align="right" | 873
| align="right" | 2,412
| align="right" | 20.5
| align="right" | 5.4
| align="right" | 15.1
| align="right" | 2.87
|-
| align="right" | 2014
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,395
| align="right" | 939
| align="right" | 2,456
| align="right" | 21.1
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 15.3
| align="right" | 2.96
|-
| align="right" | 2015
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,366
| align="right" | 985
| align="right" | 2,381
| align="right" | 20.8
| align="right" | 6.1
| align="right" | 14.7
| align="right" | 2.93
|-
| align="right" | 2016
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,432
| align="right" | 998
| align="right" | 2,434
| align="right" | 20.6
| align="right" | 6.0
| align="right" | 14.6
| align="right" | 3.08
|-
| align="right" | 2017
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,297
| align="right" | 990
| align="right" | 2,317
| align="right" | 19.7
| align="right" | 5.9
| align="right" | 13.8
| align="right" | 2.97
|-
| align="right" | 2018
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,165
| align="right" | 1,035
| align="right" | 2,130
| align="right" | 18.9
| align="right" | 6.2
| align="right" | 12.7
| align="right" | 2.85
|-
| align="right" | 2019
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 3,041
| align="right" | 1,002
| align="right" | 2,039
| align="right" | 18.1
| align="right" | 6.0
| align="right" | 12.1
| align="right" | 2.74
|-
| align="right" | 2020
| align="right" | 153,836<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/island-areas/guam/population-and-housing-unit-counts/guam-phc-table01.pdf | title=Population of Guam: 2010 and 2020}}</ref>
| align="right" | 2,935
| align="right" | 1,167
| align="right" | 1,768
| align="right" | 17.4
| align="right" | 6.9
| align="right" | 10.5
| align="right" | 2.41
|-
| align="right" | 2021
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 2,623
| align="right" | 1,276
| align="right" | 1,347
| align="right" | 15.5
| align="right" | 7.6
| align="right" | 7.9
| align="right" | 2.36
|-
| align="right" | 2022
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 2,518
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 14.9
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 2.26
|-
| align="right" | 2023
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 2,353
| align="right" | 1,184
| align="right" | 1,169
| align="right" | 13.9
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 2.11
|-
| align="right" | 2024
| align="right" | 
| align="right" | 2,370
| align="right" | 1,165
| align="right" | 1,205
| align="right" | 14.0
| align="right" | 6.9
| align="right" | 7.1
| align="right" | 
|-
|}

==Ethnic groups==
*[[Chamorro people|Chamorro]] 37.3%
*[[Filipinos|Filipino]] 26.3%
*Mixed 9.5%
*[[White people|White]] 7.1%
*[[Chuukese people|Chuukese]] 7%
*[[Koreans|Korean]] 2.2%
*Other [[Pacific Islander]] 2%
*Other [[Asian people|Asian]] 2%
*[[Chinese people|Chinese]] 1.6%
*[[Palauan people|Palauan]] 1.6%
*[[Japanese people|Japanese]] 1.5%
*[[Pohnpei]]an 1.4%
*Other 0.6%
Guam is known to be the first island in the Pacific Ocean to be invaded by Europeans, "discovered" by a foreign race the Spaniards in 1521.<ref name=":1" /> After Guam was discovered by Ferdinand Magellan under the flag of (S)pain, the island was repeatedly invaded by alien military forces.<ref name=":1" /> The island was officially claimed by Spain in 1565. It was the first island as well as the Mariana Islands, inhabited by humans in Remote Oceania.<ref name=":1" /> Guam has since been occupied by outside entities for over 330 years.<ref name=":1" />

Magellan arrived on the shores of Guam with three ships, the Trinidad, the Conception and the Victoria.<ref name=":1" /> The population of Guam in the mid 16th century was severely reduced, due to the bloodshed caused by the Spaniards, as well as the many diseases carried by the Europeans.<ref name=":1" /> Guam was ceded to the United States after the Spanish–American War in 1898.<ref name=":2" /> It was then taken by the Japanese in 1941 during World War II. It was retaken by the United States in 1944.<ref name=":2" />

While Guam merely covers 520&nbsp;km squared of land area, the United States territory is considered to be of international significance, due to geopolitics, as well as the strategic importance of Guam's straits, islands and canals.<ref name=":2" /> Guam is the largest landfall, for use of communications, military bases and shipping.<ref name=":1" /> Guam was utilised as a military base in World War II against the Japanese.<ref name=":1" />

Guam is a multi-ethnic island, with settlers from the Philippines, Korea, Japan and China forming part of its populace.<ref name=":3">Hung, H., Carson, M., Bellwood, P., Campos, F., Piper, P., Dizon, E., & Chi, Z. (2011). The first settlement of Remote Oceania: The Philippines to the Marianas. ''Antiquity'', ''85''(329), 909-926. {{doi|10.1017/S0003598X00068393}}</ref> Guam was first settled by migrants from the Philippines in 1,500 to 1,400 BCE.<ref name=":3" />

=== The Chamorro people ===
The Mariana Islands is an ethnic and cultural heritage of the Chamorro people.<ref name=":2" /> Despite the invasion attempts from leading military countries, such as Spain, The United States of America and Japan, the Chamorro people have maintained their traditions.<ref name=":3" /> The cultural endurance of the Chamorro people was evident, as the Indigenous peoples of the Mariana Islands maintained their language, tradition and integrity, in spite of the dominance of imperialism.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Clampitt-Dunlap, Sharon|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1030608805|title=Language matters : a sociolinguistic analysis of language and nationalism in Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico|year=2018|publisher=Academica Press |isbn=978-1-68053-068-1|oclc=1030608805}}</ref> While Guam has remained a colony in the postmodern world, the Chamorro people of Guam have gained an amount of local political control of the island traditions.<ref name=":3" />

In pre-Spanish times, Chamorro clans were divided into two distinct, ranked social castes. Social castes are different from social classes in that individuals are born into a particular caste and their status, therefore, could not be changed. Social classes, on the other hand, are more fluid and members can move between classes. The upper caste was known as {{lang|ch|chamorri}}, and the lower caste was known as {{lang|ch|manachang}}. Movement in between these castes, such as through marriage, was prohibited.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Shannon |date=2009-12-05 |title=Social Classes in Traditional CHamoru Society - Guampedia |url=https://www.guampedia.com/social-classes-in-traditional-chamorro-society/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=www.guampedia.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Concubines or other relationships could be maintained only within one's social class. In addition, the {{lang|ch|chamorri}} caste was divided into an upper noble class called {{lang|ch|matao}} and a middle, or demi-noble class, known as {{lang|ch|acha’ot}}.

==Languages==
*[[English language|English]] 43.6%
* [[Filipino language|Filipino]] 21.2%
*[[Chamorro language|Chamorro]] 17.8%
*Other Pacific island languages 10%
*[[Asian languages|Other Asian languages]] 6.3%
*Other 1.1%

==Religion==
According to the [[Pew Research Center]], 2010:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/guam#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010|title=Religions in Guam – PEW-GRF|website=Globalreligiousfutures.org|access-date=23 March 2019|archive-date=12 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912191843/http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/guam#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

*[[Catholics]] 75%
*[[Protestants]] 17.7%
*Unaffiliated 1.7%
*Other religions 1.6%
*Folk religions 1.5%
*Other Christians 1.4%
*[[Buddhists]] 1.1%
*[[Eastern Orthodox]] <1%
*[[Hindu]] <1%
*[[Muslim]] <1%
*[[Jews]] <1%

[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) reported 2,550 members [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Mariana Islands|in the LDS Church in Guam]]<ref>This number includes all baptized members including those no longer attending.</ref> in 5 congregations<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/maps/meetinghouses/ LDS Meetinghouse Locator].Nearby Congregations (Wards and Branches).</ref> as of 31 December 2019.<ref>{{citation |url= https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/northern-mariana-islands |title= Facts and Statistics: Statistics by Country: Northern Mariana Islands |work= Newsroom |publisher= The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|access-date= 15 January 2021 }}</ref> On 4 May 2019, the church broke ground for a temple in Yigo.

In 2020, the Vatican noted that 87.72% of the population is Catholic, with 54 priests and 64 nuns across 27 parishes.<ref>[https://www.catholicsandcultures.org/guam Catholics And Culture website, retrieved 2023-08-03]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Guamanian citizenship and nationality]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=GCA General Provisions |url=https://www.guamcourts.org/CompilerofLaws/GCA/01gca/1gc007.PDF}}

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