Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2017, Latvia's employment decreased by 5.1% compared to 2016, reaching 98k.

Latvia accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 7,876k.

Latvia ranks 12th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 19.0% (from 121k in 2012).

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