For Latvia, population decline is expected to occur at an even greater rate, underlining the demographic challenges the country faces.
In 2025, Latvia's population was given as 1,860,565. By 2050 this number is expected to decline to a little over 1.5 million (1,535,556) and by the end of the century, Latvia will be home to just 1,229,162 souls, if Eurostat's projections prove accurate – a reduction of 33.9% and proportionally the largest fall in the EU, ahead of Poland (-31.6%) an...