Employment — national citizens

In 2012, Latvia's employment increased by 1.7% compared to 2011, reaching 729k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 170,872k.

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 27.3% (from 1,003k in 2007).

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