Employment — national citizens

In 2011, Latvia's employment increased by 1.2% compared to 2010, reaching 717k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 171,906k.

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 27.0% (from 983k in 2006).

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