Employment — national citizens

In 2013, Latvia's employment increased by 3.6% compared to 2012, reaching 755k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 169,933k.

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 11.4% (from 853k in 2008).

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