EU 20.40
· European ranking
7 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Latvia: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
24.70% of people
EU 20.40 · +4.3 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N
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At a glance
Latvia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Latvia
In Latvia, Poverty or exclusion is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 24.7% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 4.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Latvia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 25.10% in 2020 to 24.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 24.30% in 2024 to 24.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Latvia, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.