Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2019, Latvia's employment decreased by 1.7% compared to 2018, reaching 96k.

Latvia accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 8,824k.

Latvia ranks 14th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 9.9% (from 106k in 2014).

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