Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2025, Latvia's employment decreased by 5.7% compared to 2024, reaching 77k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 19,955k.

Latvia ranks 19th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 23.8% (from 100k in 2020).

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