Population — national citizens

In 2019, Latvia's population decreased by 0.5% compared to 2018, reaching 1,653,343.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 411,073,307.

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 2.6% (from 1,696,633 in 2014).

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