Employment and unemployment in the regions

Regional disparities in unemployment rates in Latvia are moderate when compared to other OECD countries. While 9.4% of the labour force in Latgale was unemployed in 2021, the corresponding figure for the Pierīga region was 6.5%.

Meanwhile, the difference in employment rates between the regions with the highest (Riga) and lowest (Latgale) employment levels reached 8 percentage points in 2021.

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Dependency and the share of older people

It is expected that the share of older people in Latvia will increase in all regions over the next two decades. The old-age dependency ratio in most Latvian regions is also higher than the OECD average (30.4%), ranging from 35.6% in Latgale to 28.6% in Pierīga.

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Urban population

Between 2010 and 2021, the population decreased in all Latvian cities. The average annual change in the number of residents ranged from -2.0% in Daugavpils to -0.5% in Riga.
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