Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2009, Latvia's employment decreased by 15.5% compared to 2008, reaching 132k.

Latvia accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 11,777k.

Latvia ranks 12th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1568.4% (from 8k in 2004).

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