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Employment and unemployment
Key indicators
Short description of trends and patterns in this theme.
Unemployment rate tends to reduce
In 2018, there were 72.8 thousand unemployed persons in Latvia.
Statistical tables
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Publications and press releases
The collection of statistics covers information on the number of children births and deaths, as well as age composition, state of health, education, social protection thereof, risk of material deprivation and monetary poverty in households with children, economic activity of children, use of information technologies, violence against children and children in conflict with law in 2018 and in comparison, with the previous years.
In the 2nd quarter of 2019, employed population of Latvia constituted 64.7 %
905.6 thousand people or 64.7 % of Latvia’s population aged 15–74 were employed in the 2nd quarter of 2019.
In the 2nd quarter of 2019, Latvian unemployment rate constituted 6.4 %
In the 2nd quarter of 2019 Latvian unemployment rate constituted 6.4 %.
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Registered unemployment (the State Employment Agency)
The State Employment Agency publishes regisgtered unemployment statistics on its homepage.
EU data on employment and unemployment
The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) publishes on its home page information on employment and unemployment in the countries of the European Union.
International Labour Organisation
The database ILOSTAT of the International Labour Organisation provides annual data both on employment in the European countries (including Latvia) and information on other regions worldwide (America, Africa, Asia and Australia).