Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2006, Latvia's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 5.2% compared to 2005, reaching 992k.

Latvia accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 183,837k.

Latvia ranks 22nd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 8.9% (from 910k in 2001).

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