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Key facts

  • Currency: Euro
  • Capital city: Riga
  • Region: Northern Europe
  • Continent: Europe
  • Land area: 62,230 km²
  • Population: 1,879,383
  • Political Leader: Krišjānis Kariņš (Prime Minister)

Latest news

Cheers to change: Latvia raises drinking age to 20

Read: EuroWeeklyNews

2024-03-28

Latvian Foreign Minister Karins Resigns Over Private Flights

Read: Bloomberg

2024-03-28

Two Dutch facing eight years in Latvian prison for people smuggling

Read: NL Times

2024-03-28

NATO 'not ready' to send troops to Ukraine, Latvian PM says

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-03-27

Moscow to respond to Latvia's expulsion of Russian diplomat, MFA says

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-03-27

Latvian Foreign Ministry declares Russian diplomat persona non grata

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-03-27

NATO's Sweden readies for 'obvious' Russian threat and sends troops to Latvia

Read: Express

2024-03-27

Metrics

Business

Expense 52.33 % of GDP
GDP 40,932,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 17.31 annual %
Self-employed 13.40 % of total employment
Tax revenue 21.92 % of GDP
Unemployment 6.81 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 8.79 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 19,700.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 6.84 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 6,928.30 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 49.81 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 33.62 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 0.02 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 16.56 % of total
Net energy imports 45.16 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.57 births per woman
Forest area 34,146 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 56.72 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -747.16 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 39.80 years
Methane emissions 1,952.81 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 2,353.80 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 1,007,636
Male Population 871,746
Renewable energy consumption 43.75 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 62,761.70 km²
Rural population 591,254
Urban land area 676.27 km²
Urban population 1,288,129
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 7.96 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 9.20 per 1,000 people
Death rate 18.40 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 1,313.35 current US$
Health expenditure 7.45 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.29 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 5.49 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 73 years
Suicide mortality rate 20.10 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 91.03 % of population
Net migration -8,466
Press freedom 4.00


Politics

Armed forces personnel 9,000
Democracy score 7.38
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 2.05 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 30.00 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

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