Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2025, Latvia's employment decreased by 5.3% compared to 2024, reaching 73k.

Latvia accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 12,789k.

Latvia ranks 18th 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 25.2% (from 97k in 2020).

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