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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 (see all)
Latvian citizen accused of traveling to Ukraine to commit sabotage
Read: Euromaidan Press
2024-04-20
Latvian MFA confirms NATO's plan for $100-billion fund to supply weapons to Kiev
Read: TASS News Agency
2024-04-03
Metrics
General information
Business
Expense | 52.33 % of GDP |
GDP | 40,932,000,000.00 current US$ |
Inflation | 17.31 annual % |
Self-employed | 13.40 % of total employment |
Tax revenue | 21.92 % of GDP |
Unemployment | 6.47 % 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 | -7,630 |
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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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 2 days ago