Population — national citizens

In 2009, Latvia's population decreased by 0.4% compared to 2008, reaching 1,780,130.

Latvia ranks 20th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.3% (from 1,804,237 in 2004).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.