Population — national citizens

In 2021, Latvia's population decreased by 0.4% compared to 2020, reaching 1,640,782.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 2.3% (from 1,680,011 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.