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Summary table: Latvia and EU28

Year

	2001		2011		2015
	Latvia	EU28	Latvia	EU28	Latvia	EU28
Area in km²	64,589	-	64,562	4,496,558	64,573	4,494,509
Resident population	2,337,170	488,601,617	2,059,709	503,506,401	1,977,527	Pro509,408,640
Population density mean number of inhabitants per km²	36.4	-	32.1	111.9	30.8	s113.1
Resident population as % of EU28 population	0.5	100.0	0.4	100.0	Pro0.4	Pro100.0
Foreigners as % of resident population	24.6	-	16.5	-	15.0	-
Ageing index number of elderly people (aged 65 and over) per 100 young people (aged 0 to 14)	89.5	94.1	129.7	112.9	129.0	Pro122.0
Median age	38.2	38.3	41.4	41.3	42.7	Pro42.4
Young people (%) individuals aged 0 to 14	17.0	16.9	14.2	15.7	15.1	Pro15.6
Elderly people (%) individuals aged 65 and over	15.3	15.9	18.5	17.7	19.5	Pro19.0
Working age people per elderly person individuals aged 15 to 64 per each individual aged 65 and over	4.4	4.2	3.6	3.8	3.4	Pro3.4
Total fertility rate average number of children per woman of childbearing age	1.22	1.46	1.33	1.59	1.70	Pro1.57
Mean age of women at childbearing	26.9	29.0	28.7	30.1	29.4	Pro30.5
Births out of wedlock (%)	42.1	-	44.6	Pro39.3	41.5	-
Infant mortality rate (‰) number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births	11.0	5.8	6.6	Pro3.9	4.1	s3.6
Life expectancy at birth	-	-	73.9	80.2	74.8	Pro80.6
Households (thousands)	-	-	829.0	211,956.4	832.7	218,988.6
Average number of persons per household	-	-	2.5	2.3	2.3	2.3
Single person households (%)	-	-	27.9	31.9	33.0	33.3
Public expenditure on education (PPS, millions)(1)	1,284.3	s475,592.0	1,534.0	s663,029.3	-	-
Population with upper secondary education or over (%) individuals aged 25 to 64	79.2	-	87.9	73.4	90.1	76.5
Rate of early leavers from education and training (%)	-	-	11.6	13.4	9.9	11.0
Graduates in higher education ISCED 5-6	20,308	-	24,853	-	17,021	4,609,701
Females as % of graduates in higher education ISCED 5-6	55.4	-	70.1	-	65.4	57.6
PhDs per 100 thousand inhabitants	-	-	14.4	-	12.9	-
Number of inhabitants per physician	-	-	319.0	-	312.7	Pro281.1
Beds in hospitals per 100 thousand inhabitants	827.9	-	588.0	534.7	569.4	Pro514.5
Social protection revenue as % of GDP	14.6	-	15.5	Pro29.8	Pro15.0	-
Social protection expenditure as % of GDP	14.5	-	15.3	Pro28.3	Pro14.9	-
Expenditure in old age pensions per inhabitant (€)	290.3	-	730.9	Pro2,420.4	Pro817.4	-
Employment rate (%) number of employed aged 15 and over per 100 individuals of same age group	48.8	-	49.0	51.8	54.1	52.2
Full-time employment (%)	89.8	-	90.8	80.5	92.1	79.5
Female part-time employment (%)	12.4	-	10.9	32.1	10.7	32.7
Self-employed (%)(2)	10.2	-	10.2	15.1	11.8	14.9
Self-employed persons without upper secondary education (%)(2) ISCED 0-2 maximum	u20.9	-	10.3	24.2	9.5	21.1
Employees without upper secondary education (%) ISCED 0-2 maximum	14.8	-	9.0	19.7	7.6	17.0
Employees with fixed-term contract (%)	7.4	-	6.7	14.0	3.8	14.1
Females in the total of employees with fixed-term contract (%)	u37.4	-	43.5	49.8	41.3	49.5
Unemployment rate (%) number of unemployed persons aged 15 to 74 per 100 economically active people of the same age group	13.9	-	16.2	9.6	9.9	9.4
Unemployment rate of population with tertiary education (%) number of unemployed persons aged 15 to 74 with ISCED 5-6 per 100 economically active people of the same age group and level of education	§	-	7.1	5.5	4.9	5.6
Unemployment rate of population aged 20 to 24 (%) number of unemployed persons aged 20 to 24 per 100 same age economically active people	u21.3	-	28.2	19.9	15.1	19.0
Unemployed over 1 year as % of total unemployement	-	-	54.5	42.8	45.2	48.3
Inactive population per 100 economically active people	76.7	-	70.9	74.5	66.5	73.7
Labour productivity per hour worked (PPS, EU28=100)(1)	35.8	100.0	52.1	100.0	55.2	100.0
National minimum wage (€) monthly average	99.0	//	282.0	//	360.0	//
Average size of enterprises	-	-	6.1	-	5.0	-
Number of enterprise births per number of enterprise deaths	-	-	1.5	-	Pro3.3	-
Employees in % of the personnel employed in enterprises	-	-	93.0	-	80.9	-
Personnel in R&D FTE - full-time equivalent	5,476	-	5,432	2,612,978	5,570	s2,874,137
Total personnel in R&D in enterprises (%)	24.7	-	16.0	52.5	20.6	s54.7
Expenditure in R&D by business enterprise sector as % of total expenditure in R&D	36.4	s64.6	27.8	63.2	24.7	64.5
Enterprises with website or homepage (%) enterprises with 10 or more personnel	-	-	53.0	69.0	59.0	75.0
GDP per capita (PPS)(1)	7,841.3	20,559.7	14,914.1	26,202.0	18,589.5	Pro28,912.8
Gross Public Administration debt as % of GDP	13.9	59.3	┴43.1	81.5	36.8	84.6
Taxes on income as % of Public Administration revenue	22.4	-	19.4	26.0	20.4	26.8
Emigrants remittances as % of GDP	-	-	2.9	0.1	-	0.1
Remittances by immigrants as a % of GDP	-	-	1.8	0.3	-	0.3
Balance of trade as % of GDP	-7.7	-0.3	┴-5.1	-0.1	-0.5	2.0
Current account as % of GDP	-6.0	-1.1	┴-3.2	-0.3	-0.5	1.1
Private final consumption as % of GDP	61.7	58.2	┴61.6	57.1	60.4	56.3
Public final consumption as % of GDP	20.5	19.1	┴18.2	21.0	17.9	20.4
Gross fixed capital formation as % of GDP	27.4	21.4	┴22.2	20.1	22.1	19.5
Contribution of renewable energies to the primary production of energy (%)	98.9	10.7	99.8	20.6	99.6	26.7
Electrical energy consumption per capita tonne of oil equivalent	0.2	0.5	0.3	0.5	0.3	Pro0.5
Organic production area as % of total area	-	-	2.9	-	3.6	2.5
Expenditure in research and development (R&D) as % of GDP	0.4	s1.8	0.7	2.0	0.6	2.0
Researchers in R&D per thousand economically active people	3.2	-	3.8	6.8	3.6	s7.5
Females as % of total R&D researchers	55.1	-	51.8	-	50.1	-
Households with Internet access at home (%)	-	-	59.0	67.0	74.0	80.0
Individuals who accessed Internet at least once a week (%) individuals aged 16 to 74	-	-	66.0	67.0	75.0	76.0
At risk of poverty threshold (PPS)(1)	-	-	3,566	-	4,855	-
At risk of poverty rate before social transfers (%)	-	-	46.8	44.1	40.9	44.7
At risk of poverty rate after social transfers (%)	-	-	19.0	16.8	22.5	17.3
Gini index (%)	-	-	35.1	30.8	35.4	31.0
Resident tourists as % of resident population(3)	-	-	26.2	s51.6	29.6	Pro48.3
Nights spent by non-resident tourists in collective tourist accommodations (%)(3)	52.4	-	68.5	s43.5	69.9	s45.4
Resident tourists traveling abroad as % of the resident tourists(3)	-	-	57.7	s33.2	60.5	32.9
Commercial airports	-	-	1	-	1	-
Light passengers vehicles per thousand inhabitants	250.8	419.8	297.3	483.1	343.4	Pro499.1
Speed limits on motorways km/h	-	-	110	-	110	-
Extension of the railway lines in operation Km	2,305	217,502	1,865	216,191	1,859	218,181

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Notes

The Summary-table shows no methodological changes (marked by breaks in series) in the data
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(1) - PPS – Purchasing power standards.

(2) - The figures presented include self-employed as employers and self-employed without employees.

(3) - Trips with at least one night's duration will be accounted for. Business travel is excluded.