Employment — national citizens

In 2022, Latvia's employment increased by 3.0% compared to 2021, reaching 751k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 180,106k.

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 1.2% (from 761k in 2017).

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