Latvia

Country at a glance

Latvia is a baltic member of the European Union, with its capital in Riga. The country joined the European Communities in 2004 in the largest single enlargement to date — the ten central-and-eastern European, Mediterranean accession. Economically, Latvia is a Baltic economy with a services orientation, a banking sector recovering from the 2018 ABLV affair, and steady declines in population through emigration. The country has used the euro since 2014, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. Latvian is the official language. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Latvia is currently 23rd-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record; 24th by GDP at current prices.

Key insights

How Latvia stands out across the EU-27 on flagship indicators — auto-generated from the latest Eurostat snapshot.

• 🔴At-risk-of-poverty 22.0% — 2nd highest in EU (EU avg 16.3%)
• 🟡Fertility rate 1.2 — well below the 2.1 replacement level
• 🟡Life expectancy 76.4 years — bottom 2 in EU
• 🟡R&D expenditure 0.9% of GDP — far below the EU 3% target

Latvia vs EU-27

Flagship indicators alongside the EU-27 average and Latvia's rank across covered member states.

Indicators by topic

Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Latvia, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.

More data on Latvia

This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.

• European Parliament

  MEPs elected from Latvia (current term, 2024–2029).

• Public tenders

  TED notices from Latvia buyers — public contracts above EU thresholds.

• EU research grants

  CORDIS-funded R&D projects coordinated from Latvia.

• Cohesion funds

  Kohesio-listed ERDF/ESF+/Cohesion Fund projects in Latvia.

Sources & methodology

Data on this page comes from Eurostat (405 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.

Last refreshed: 2026-05-18 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API