Employment — national citizens

In 2020, Latvia's employment decreased by 2.7% compared to 2019, reaching 751k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 176,467k.

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 1.2% (from 760k in 2015).

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