Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Latvia's employment decreased by 4.9% compared to 2009, reaching 708k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

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 24.2% (from 935k in 2005).

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