Population — national citizens

In 2018, Latvia's population decreased by 0.5% compared to 2017, reaching 1,661,848.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 411,593,089.

Latvia ranks 23rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 2.7% (from 1,708,411 in 2013).

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