The rate has been growing since the Q3 2023; over the quarter it went up by 0.4 percentage points and over the year by 0.8 percentage points.
In Q1 2024 there were 68.7 thousand unemployed persons aged 15–74 (incl.), which is 8.9 thousand more than a year ago and 4.5 thousand more than in the previous quarter.
In Q4 2023 Latvian unemployment rate (6.8 %) was 0.7 percentage points above the EU average (6.1 %). In Q1 2024 it was lower than in Estonia (7.8 %) and Lithuania (8....