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Latvia

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A consolidated migration profile for Latvia: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.

CapitalRiga
RegionEurope
Subregion—
Population1,847,785
Refugees hosted 32,454 People protected here
Refugees from here — Fled abroad
Migrants living here 220,471 Foreign-born stock
Net migration -7,330 Net outflow
Asylum-seekers 487 Awaiting a decision
Reporting year 2025 Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025

Key migration numbers

The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.

2025Reporting year
32,454Refugees hosted
487Asylum-seekers
1,698Applications (year)
Migration balance

Incoming vs outgoing

Annual estimates

Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.

Net migration (year)-7,330Net outflow
Migrants living here220,471Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series

Statistics

Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).

Population profile

Sex, age, religion & more

How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.

Religion

Religious make-up over time

National shares

Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1995 2000 2005 2010 2020
Christian Muslim Jewish Unaffiliated Other

See the full religion timeline for this country →

Places of worship

Places of worship over time

Recorded counts

No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.

See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →

Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.

Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.

Sex

Female 0.0%
Male 0.2%
Unknown 99.8%

Age

12-17 0.0%
18-59 0.2%
5-11 0.0%
60+ 0.0%
Country context

National indicators

Economy

GDP (current US$)48,618,869,160.33 USD2025
GDP per capita (current US$)26,311.97 USD2025
Unemployment (% of labour force)6.57 %2025
Personal remittances received (US$)1,443,051,827.80 USD2025
Personal remittances received (% of GDP)2.97 %2025

Population

Population, total1,847,785.00 people2025
Population density30.27 people/km22023

Migration

Net migration-7,330.00 people2025
International migrant stock, total220,471.00 people2024
International migrant stock (% of population)11.80 %2024

Asylum decisions

Asylum decisions - recognised57.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - rejected524.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - otherwise closed862.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - total1,536.00 people2025

Durable solutions

Returned refugees4,000.00 people2023
Resettlement arrivals40.00 people2017
Naturalisations5.00 people2025

Other

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)76.43 years2024
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)98.05 %2024
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)7.28 %2023
Gini index34.00 2023
Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)0.40 %2023
Context

Migration & quality of life

These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.

Economy

Gross domestic product

World Bank

GDP (current US$)

$48.62B

Reported 2025

GDP per capita (current US$)

$26,312

Reported 2025

Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.

Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).

Public safety

Recorded crime

Not migrant offending

National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.

Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
CrimeRate / 100k
2.87
Homicide2.50
Public expenditure

Expenses

Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.

YearAmount (USD)Category
2024$111,620,000ODA provided
2023$140,930,705ODA provided
2022$144,402,072ODA provided
2021$47,620,000ODA provided
2020$40,620,000ODA provided
2019$34,360,000ODA provided
2018$34,420,000ODA provided
2017$31,920,000ODA provided
2016$30,180,000ODA provided
2015$23,170,000ODA provided
2014$25,370,000ODA provided
2013$23,720,000ODA provided
2012$21,110,000ODA provided
2011$19,130,000ODA provided
2010$15,640,000ODA provided
2009$20,980,000ODA provided
2008$21,820,000ODA provided
2007$15,790,000ODA provided
2006$11,810,000ODA provided
2005$10,650,000ODA provided
2004$161,809,998ODA received
2004$8,330,000ODA provided
2003$113,370,003ODA received
2003$880,000ODA provided
2002$75,199,997ODA received
2002$1,500,000ODA provided
2001$105,180,000ODA received
2000$90,589,996ODA received
1999$98,930,000ODA received
1998$97,889,999ODA received
1997$81,199,997ODA received
1996$72,190,002ODA received
1995$63,349,998ODA received
1994$52,759,998ODA received
1993$33,310,001ODA received
1992$80,309,998ODA received
1991$3,420,000ODA received
Sources & notes

Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.