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Unemployment rate in Latvia

How hard is it to have a job there?

Latvia's unemployment rate is 6.57 % — #81 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

6.57%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Latvia over time

19.48 %12.77 %6.05 %19.48 % · 20106.05 % · 20072000: 14.21 %2001: 13.82 %2002: 13.83 %2003: 12.06 %2004: 11.71 %2005: 10.03 %2006: 7.03 %2007: 6.05 %2008: 7.74 %2009: 17.52 %2010: 19.48 %2011: 16.21 %2012: 15.05 %2013: 11.87 %2014: 10.85 %2015: 9.87 %2016: 9.64 %2017: 8.71 %2018: 7.41 %2019: 6.31 %2020: 8.10 %2021: 7.51 %2022: 6.82 %2023: 6.46 %2024: 6.90 %2025: 6.57 %2000201220256.57 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#81 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
35 %
43 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.33 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
12.91 pp
peak 19.48 % in 2010
Full series
▼ 7.64 pp
since 2000

In Europe: #26 of 36vs median 5.25 %: +1.31 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Latvia: ahead of 35 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentLatvia 6.57 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Latvia is ahead of 35 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Latvia
79 Italy6.39 %−0.18 pp
80 Barbados6.52 %−0.04 pp
81 Latvia6.57 %—
82 Mozambique6.63 %+0.06 pp
83 Lithuania6.73 %+0.16 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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