EU 6.25
· European ranking
11 / 34
No change compared with previous year
Latvia: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
6.90% of labour force
EU 6.25 · +0.7 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
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At a glance
Latvia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Latvia
In Latvia, Unemployment rate is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 6.9% versus 6.3% in 2025, a gap of 0.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Latvia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 8.10% in 2020 to 6.90% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 6.90% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
Reading within the topic
In Latvia, Employment & Economic Security shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.