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Latvia population

Latvia population now

1,832,436

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 1.8–1.9 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 1,882,396

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.83593 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 1.8–1.9 million
Median age: 44.8
Aged 65+: 22.7%

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male female projection · one cell = 500 people

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LVA · 1950–2100 · in brief

Latvia in numbers

Latvia had 1,882,396 people in mid-2023, the 150th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.02% of the world's people. That is about as many as in 1950 (1.9 million).

Its population peaked in 1989 at 2.7 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 925 thousand in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 238 thousand to 2.9 million.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 1992, and do so in every projected year to 2100.

The median age was 30.2 in 1950 and 44.1 in 2023; the projection has 54.2 in 2100. 21.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 36.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 1989 at 1.8 million; in 2023 it was 1.2 million.

By size it is the 150th country in 2023; the projection puts it 155th in 2050 and 160th in 2100. It is overtaken by Equatorial Guinea in 2024, Bahrain in 2031 and Kosovo in 2038.

Population, mid-2023: 1,882,396
Rank by population, 2023: 150 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.02%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.07% · +1,333 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 30
Land area, 2023: 62,230 km²
Births, 2023: 14,250
Deaths, 2023: 27,614
Net migration, 2023: +7,966
Children per woman, 2023: 1.34
Median age, 2023: 44.1 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 76.2 years
In a city, 2025: 36 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 1,918,720
Projected, mid-2050: 1,513,810
Projected, mid-2100: 925,371

LVA · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Latvia, 1950–2100

Latvia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	1,911,264		33,020	24,043	2.08	64.6
1951	estimate	1,926,176		32,466	23,683	2.01	65.2
1952	estimate	1,941,654		31,764	23,453	1.94	65.7
1953	estimate	1,957,416		30,618	23,218	1.85	66.2
1954	estimate	1,972,981		32,334	23,149	1.92	66.7
1955	estimate	1,991,088		32,164	23,091	1.88	67.2
1956	estimate	2,009,836		31,811	22,994	1.84	67.6
1957	estimate	2,029,175		32,811	22,363	1.87	68.3
1958	estimate	2,051,055		34,123	22,083	1.92	68.9
1959	estimate	2,075,529		34,553	21,415	1.92	69.5
1960	estimate	2,118,434		35,368	21,305	1.94	70.3
1961	estimate	2,143,909		35,865	21,706	1.96	70.5
1962	estimate	2,170,428		34,905	23,544	1.92	69.9
1963	estimate	2,194,142		33,682	22,665	1.85	70.3
1964	estimate	2,217,460		32,755	21,175	1.81	71.5
1965	estimate	2,242,056		30,920	22,729	1.73	71.2
1966	estimate	2,263,468		31,591	23,289	1.79	71.2
1967	estimate	2,285,231		31,811	24,277	1.82	70.9
1968	estimate	2,306,926		32,260	25,025	1.86	70.5
1969	estimate	2,327,642		32,430	26,104	1.88	70.2
1970	estimate	2,347,690		33,749	26,500	1.96	70.2
1971	estimate	2,367,428		34,638	26,197	2.02	70.6
1972	estimate	2,386,718		34,429	27,189	2.01	70.3
1973	estimate	2,405,030		33,513	28,000	1.95	70.2
1974	estimate	2,426,536		34,485	27,992	1.98	70.1
1975	estimate	2,447,454		34,344	29,872	1.95	69.3
1976	estimate	2,464,087		34,222	30,194	1.91	69.4
1977	estimate	2,476,987		33,866	30,623	1.87	69.5
1978	estimate	2,492,228		33,897	31,026	1.85	69.3
1979	estimate	2,502,496		34,377	31,975	1.85	68.8
1980	estimate	2,508,556		35,289	31,986	1.88	69.1
1981	estimate	2,514,962		35,459	31,982	1.87	69.1
1982	estimate	2,524,978		37,090	31,129	1.95	69.6
1983	estimate	2,539,051		39,921	32,187	2.10	69.4
1984	estimate	2,554,891		40,134	33,226	2.11	69.4
1985	estimate	2,570,655		39,103	33,993	2.06	69.6
1986	estimate	2,587,806		41,116	31,139	2.17	71.0
1987	estimate	2,611,749		41,179	32,002	2.18	71.0
1988	estimate	2,640,176		40,549	32,199	2.14	70.9
1989	estimate	2,664,317		38,524	32,526	2.03	70.4
1990	estimate	2,665,354		37,629	34,875	1.99	69.5
1991	estimate	2,654,909		34,704	34,626	1.84	69.2
1992	estimate	2,642,971		31,543	35,649	1.72	68.5
1993	estimate	2,586,682		26,620	39,430	1.50	66.6
1994	estimate	2,540,958		23,984	41,992	1.38	65.2
1995	estimate	2,501,509		21,347	39,181	1.25	66.0
1996	estimate	2,470,389		19,546	34,618	1.16	68.6
1997	estimate	2,445,422		18,629	33,826	1.12	69.2
1998	estimate	2,421,040		18,235	34,397	1.10	68.8
1999	estimate	2,399,378		19,203	33,082	1.17	69.7
2000	estimate	2,382,266		20,319	32,541	1.24	70.2
2001	estimate	2,354,359		19,815	33,302	1.22	69.9
2002	estimate	2,322,243		20,207	32,831	1.26	70.2
2003	estimate	2,300,459		21,208	32,735	1.32	70.6
2004	estimate	2,277,509		20,730	32,263	1.30	70.9
2005	estimate	2,250,839		22,042	33,023	1.39	70.6
2006	estimate	2,228,728		23,073	33,257	1.46	70.5
2007	estimate	2,209,336		24,127	33,215	1.54	70.8
2008	estimate	2,192,216		24,673	31,241	1.58	72.0
2009	estimate	2,163,207		22,503	30,025	1.47	72.7
2010	estimate	2,120,878		20,254	30,213	1.37	73.0
2011	estimate	2,074,784		19,167	28,660	1.34	73.7
2012	estimate	2,045,099		20,097	29,110	1.44	73.9
2013	estimate	2,024,168		20,860	28,785	1.53	74.2
2014	estimate	2,001,852		21,921	28,536	1.65	74.3
2015	estimate	1,986,446		22,211	28,535	1.71	74.7
2016	estimate	1,969,288		22,133	28,661	1.74	74.8
2017	estimate	1,950,438		21,019	28,835	1.70	74.8
2018	estimate	1,934,750		19,471	28,825	1.61	75.0
2019	estimate	1,920,426		18,887	27,789	1.61	75.6
2020	estimate	1,908,100		17,629	28,450	1.55	75.5
2021	estimate	1,894,147		17,471	34,306	1.57	73.2
2022	estimate	1,877,027		15,907	29,864	1.47	74.9
2023	estimate	1,885,099		14,250	27,614	1.34	76.2
2024	estimate	1,879,693		14,017	27,434	1.34	76.3
2025	projection	1,864,050	1.9–1.9 million	13,706	27,358	1.35	76.5
2026	projection	1,843,068	1.8–1.9 million	13,328	27,245	1.35	76.6
2027	projection	1,828,801	1.8–1.9 million	13,106	27,128	1.36	76.8
2028	projection	1,814,326	1.8–1.9 million	12,890	27,016	1.36	76.9
2029	projection	1,799,817	1.7–1.9 million	12,717	26,897	1.37	77.1
2030	projection	1,785,151	1.7–1.9 million	12,598	26,774	1.37	77.2
2031	projection	1,770,088	1.7–1.9 million	12,503	26,641	1.38	77.4
2032	projection	1,755,650	1.6–1.9 million	12,475	26,500	1.38	77.5
2033	projection	1,741,131	1.6–1.9 million	12,470	26,352	1.39	77.7
2034	projection	1,726,877	1.6–1.9 million	12,528	26,224	1.39	77.8
2035	projection	1,713,126	1.5–1.9 million	12,616	26,097	1.39	78.0
2036	projection	1,699,731	1.5–1.9 million	12,744	25,981	1.40	78.1
2037	projection	1,686,311	1.5–2.0 million	12,877	25,866	1.40	78.3
2038	projection	1,673,254	1.4–2.0 million	13,019	25,773	1.40	78.4
2039	projection	1,660,200	1.4–2.0 million	13,137	25,710	1.41	78.6
2040	projection	1,647,022	1.4–2.0 million	13,247	25,633	1.41	78.7
2041	projection	1,634,266	1.3–2.0 million	13,345	25,593	1.41	78.9
2042	projection	1,621,373	1.3–2.0 million	13,380	25,532	1.42	79.0
2043	projection	1,608,932	1.3–2.0 million	13,400	25,478	1.42	79.2
2044	projection	1,596,346	1.3–2.0 million	13,357	25,419	1.42	79.3
2045	projection	1,583,830	1.2–2.1 million	13,288	25,349	1.43	79.5
2046	projection	1,570,982	1.2–2.1 million	13,173	25,255	1.43	79.6
2047	projection	1,558,454	1.2–2.1 million	12,996	25,146	1.43	79.8
2048	projection	1,545,815	1.2–2.1 million	12,789	25,033	1.44	79.9
2049	projection	1,533,056	1.1–2.1 million	12,503	24,899	1.44	80.1
2050	projection	1,520,223	1.1–2.1 million	12,206	24,741	1.44	80.2
2051	projection	1,507,397	1.1–2.2 million	11,864	24,567	1.44	80.4
2052	projection	1,494,633	1.1–2.2 million	11,521	24,398	1.45	80.5
2053	projection	1,481,026	1.1–2.2 million	11,159	24,227	1.45	80.7
2054	projection	1,467,278	1.0–2.2 million	10,804	24,034	1.45	80.8
2055	projection	1,453,355	1.0–2.2 million	10,470	23,831	1.45	80.9
2056	projection	1,439,426	1.0–2.2 million	10,152	23,626	1.46	81.1
2057	projection	1,425,200	0.9–2.2 million	9,856	23,416	1.46	81.2
2058	projection	1,410,922	0.9–2.2 million	9,605	23,205	1.46	81.3
2059	projection	1,396,767	0.9–2.2 million	9,397	22,990	1.47	81.5
2060	projection	1,382,712	0.9–2.2 million	9,218	22,780	1.47	81.6
2061	projection	1,368,539	0.8–2.3 million	9,092	22,579	1.47	81.8
2062	projection	1,354,719	0.8–2.3 million	8,991	22,380	1.47	81.9
2063	projection	1,340,997	0.8–2.3 million	8,928	22,207	1.48	82.0
2064	projection	1,327,311	0.8–2.3 million	8,886	22,043	1.48	82.2
2065	projection	1,313,565	0.7–2.3 million	8,855	21,874	1.48	82.3
2066	projection	1,299,876	0.7–2.4 million	8,855	21,721	1.48	82.5
2067	projection	1,286,671	0.7–2.4 million	8,865	21,578	1.48	82.6
2068	projection	1,273,390	0.7–2.4 million	8,887	21,402	1.49	82.7
2069	projection	1,260,297	0.7–2.4 million	8,892	21,255	1.48	82.9
2070	projection	1,247,642	0.6–2.4 million	8,921	21,120	1.49	83.0
2071	projection	1,235,075	0.6–2.5 million	8,941	20,964	1.49	83.1
2072	projection	1,222,630	0.6–2.5 million	8,958	20,827	1.49	83.2
2073	projection	1,210,537	0.6–2.5 million	8,959	20,672	1.49	83.4
2074	projection	1,198,541	0.6–2.5 million	8,944	20,522	1.49	83.5
2075	projection	1,186,530	0.5–2.5 million	8,902	20,330	1.49	83.6
2076	projection	1,174,602	0.5–2.5 million	8,855	20,130	1.50	83.8
2077	projection	1,162,853	0.5–2.5 million	8,779	19,932	1.50	83.9
2078	projection	1,151,314	0.5–2.6 million	8,691	19,701	1.50	84.0
2079	projection	1,139,831	0.5–2.6 million	8,562	19,447	1.50	84.1
2080	projection	1,128,357	0.4–2.6 million	8,425	19,184	1.50	84.3
2081	projection	1,117,140	0.4–2.6 million	8,278	18,898	1.50	84.4
2082	projection	1,106,139	0.4–2.6 million	8,115	18,603	1.50	84.5
2083	projection	1,095,330	0.4–2.7 million	7,944	18,280	1.50	84.6
2084	projection	1,084,648	0.4–2.7 million	7,771	17,953	1.50	84.7
2085	projection	1,074,254	0.4–2.7 million	7,599	17,629	1.50	84.9
2086	projection	1,064,165	0.4–2.7 million	7,440	17,304	1.50	85.0
2087	projection	1,054,137	0.4–2.7 million	7,287	17,010	1.50	85.1
2088	projection	1,044,195	0.4–2.8 million	7,137	16,724	1.50	85.2
2089	projection	1,034,462	0.4–2.8 million	7,002	16,470	1.50	85.3
2090	projection	1,024,864	0.3–2.8 million	6,875	16,254	1.50	85.5
2091	projection	1,015,291	0.3–2.8 million	6,764	16,076	1.51	85.6
2092	projection	1,005,758	0.3–2.9 million	6,673	15,945	1.51	85.7
2093	projection	996,300	0.3–2.9 million	6,584	15,847	1.51	85.8
2094	projection	986,936	0.3–2.9 million	6,521	15,790	1.51	85.9
2095	projection	977,527	0.3–2.9 million	6,462	15,741	1.51	86.0
2096	projection	968,103	0.3–2.9 million	6,421	15,734	1.51	86.1
2097	projection	958,623	0.3–2.9 million	6,393	15,742	1.52	86.3
2098	projection	949,210	0.3–2.9 million	6,372	15,759	1.52	86.4
2099	projection	939,666	0.2–2.9 million	6,343	15,761	1.52	86.5
2100	projection	930,123	0.2–2.9 million	6,321	15,763	1.52	86.6

Show the numbers: Latvia, mid-2026, by single year of age

Latvia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	6,900	6,492
1	7,024	6,594
2	7,178	6,732
3	7,744	7,258
4	8,632	8,094
5	9,075	8,502
6	9,370	8,820
7	9,858	9,230
8	10,528	9,720
9	11,297	10,374
10	11,632	10,689
11	11,554	10,682
12	11,052	10,432
13	10,521	9,924
14	10,019	9,354
15	9,747	9,056
16	10,136	9,542
17	10,816	10,408
18	11,010	10,566
19	10,494	10,069
20	10,008	9,535
21	9,512	8,968
22	9,306	8,706
23	9,177	8,657
24	8,780	8,451
25	8,828	8,505
26	8,864	8,361
27	8,427	7,838
28	8,259	7,627
29	8,472	7,744
30	8,953	8,142
31	9,597	8,870
32	10,290	9,710
33	11,571	10,856
34	12,635	11,774
35	13,112	12,395
36	13,569	12,846
37	14,012	13,096
38	14,340	13,527
39	14,342	13,720
40	14,066	13,406
41	13,792	13,253
42	13,840	13,422
43	13,442	13,026
44	12,732	12,450
45	12,366	12,192
46	12,008	12,154
47	11,706	12,179
48	11,740	12,272
49	12,014	12,555
50	12,183	12,866
51	12,216	13,096
52	12,189	13,159
53	12,321	13,265
54	12,418	13,636
55	12,137	13,728
56	11,729	13,394
57	11,512	13,189
58	11,339	13,174
59	11,116	13,249
60	10,940	13,070
61	10,936	13,274
62	11,098	13,907
63	11,220	14,366
64	11,329	14,806
65	11,200	15,018
66	10,747	14,940
67	10,469	14,629
68	10,074	14,189
69	9,201	13,718
70	8,537	13,391
71	8,010	13,032
72	7,270	12,212
73	6,749	11,778
74	6,456	11,808
75	6,108	11,473
76	5,858	11,562
77	5,504	11,260
78	4,871	10,130
79	4,061	8,980
80	3,380	7,980
81	3,096	7,710
82	3,028	7,804
83	2,924	7,986
84	2,843	8,093
85	2,632	7,674
86	2,279	6,972
87	1,960	6,205
88	1,631	5,377
89	1,288	4,390
90	974	3,402
91	706	2,593
92	538	2,045
93	426	1,694
94	318	1,304
95	238	950
96	170	660
97	114	446
98	73	293
99	42	178
100+	48	242

LVA · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Latvia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

LVA · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Latvia

Latvia had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 1989: 1,781,030 people aged 15–64, against 1,185,460 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

25 children

34 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 37 years: 1955–1967, 1981–1990 and 1999–2012.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

LVA · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Latvia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Latvia gains 4,448 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 60–64, at 407 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 29,760 (1959) and the most it lost was 52,180 (1992).

In 2024, 220,471 people living in Latvia had been born in another country, 12 of every 100 people there, against 24 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

LVA · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Latvia

Of every 100 babies born in Latvia in 2023, 3 had a mother under 20, 70 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 27 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 4 under 20 and 19 aged 35 or older.

1950
4 · 77 · 19

2023
3 · 70 · 27

2050 · projected
1 · 70 · 29

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 14,250
Average age when women have a baby: 30.3 years; 29.3 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 8; 16 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Latvia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	2	5	4	2	1	1
15–19	1,340	2,666	1,767	367	144	95
20–24	9,687	13,124	6,426	1,738	992	702
25–29	10,558	9,580	6,435	3,553	3,022	1,824
30–34	5,125	5,380	3,621	4,720	4,578	2,112
35–39	4,375	2,957	1,641	3,055	2,730	1,224
40–44	1,817	599	407	745	675	323
45–49	116	33	18	69	63	39
50–54	0	0	0	1	1	1
All babies	33,020	34,344	20,319	14,250	12,206	6,321

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

LVA · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Latvia

In Latvia, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 63.8 (95% range 63.1–64.5), out of 73.2 in all. That leaves 9.4 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

66.7 in full health, 11.2 not: 77.9 years

Men

60.8 in full health, 7.7 not: 68.5 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 66.7 healthy years of 77.9. Men: 60.8 of 68.5. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 66.0.

LVA · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Latvia

At the end of 2025, Latvia was hosting 32,941 people who had crossed a border into it, about 18 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad32,941
Latvia nationals abroad280

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 1,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Latvia living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 1,462 people asked for asylum in Latvia for the first time; 107 people from Latvia asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

LVA · of every 100 people

How people live in Latvia

Of every 100 people in Latvia in 2025, 36 lived in a city, 22 in a town or suburb and 42 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 7.3 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

LVA · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Latvia went in school

Almost every adult in Latvia went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 84 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 finished primary 14 finished lower secondary 56 finished upper secondary 28 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; nor are the ones who finished upper secondary.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

LVA · cities · 2025

Cities in Latvia

Latvia had 3 cities in 2025, home to 663,021 people. The largest, Riga, holds 30 of every 100 people in Latvia.

Riga550,267
Daugavpils57,847
Liepaja54,907

How to read this: the 3 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Latvia are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.