Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2009, Latvia's employment decreased by 16.4% compared to 2008, reaching 130k.

Latvia accounts for 1.8% of the EU-27 total of 7,242k.

Latvia ranks 9th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1629.3% (from 8k in 2004).

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