Employment — national citizens

In 2009, Latvia's employment decreased by 12.7% compared to 2008, reaching 745k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 174,567k.

Latvia ranks 23rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 19.0% (from 920k in 2004).

Source: Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.