Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2005, Latvia's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 1.6% compared to 2004, reaching 942k.

Latvia accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 180,123k.

Latvia ranks 22nd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.6% (from 918k in 2000).

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