A typical metric is to look at Latvia’s level of income per person as a share of the EU average and this has risen substantially from around 40% of the EU level to 71% today.
Allow me a slightly different perspective with a comparison with Lithuania (the most successful 2004 EU entrant, the United Kingdom (the most popular destination for Latvian migration) and Belarus and Russia, our eastern, non-EU (and troublesome) neighbours.
For convenience, I have indexed the numbers ...