Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2024, Latvia's employment decreased by 7.5% compared to 2023, reaching 77k.

Latvia accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 12,089k.

Latvia ranks 17th 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 19.6% (from 96k in 2019).

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