On 1 October 2024 Latvia provisionally had a population of 1,857,400, which is 15,100 people fewer than on 1 January 2024, putting Latvia on track to lose around 1% of its population during the calendar year.
In the first nine months of the year 9,716 children were born in Latvia, which is 1,419 children or 12.7 % fewer than in the same period a year ago. For the first time on record, the number of births did not reach 10 thousand over a period of nine months. The highest number of...