Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Latvia's employment decreased by 0.4% compared to 2015, reaching 757k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

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 grown by 5.6% (from 717k in 2011).

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