LV · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Latvia, 2020
In 2020, Latvia's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 45.5% compared to 2019, reaching 5,532.
Latvia accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 2,332,051.
Latvia ranks 26th 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 13.0% (from 6,357 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.