Population — national citizens

In 2024, Latvia's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2023, reaching 1,637,474.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 1.0% (from 1,653,343 in 2019).

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