Employment — national citizens

In 2017, Latvia's employment increased by 0.4% compared to 2016, reaching 761k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 176,807k.

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 4.3% (from 729k in 2012).

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