Employment — national citizens

In 2018, Latvia's employment increased by 1.7% compared to 2017, reaching 773k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 177,872k.

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 grown by 2.4% (from 755k in 2013).

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