Employment — national citizens

In 2021, Latvia's employment decreased by 3.0% compared to 2020, reaching 729k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 177,389k.

Latvia ranks 22nd out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 3.7% (from 757k in 2016).

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