World Data Atlas
Latvia
President:
Edgars Rinkevics
Prime Minister:
Evika Siliņa
Capital city:
Riga
Languages:
Latvian (official) 56.3%, Russian 33.8%, other 0.6% (includes Polish, Ukrainian, and Belarusian), unspecified 9.4% note: represents lanugage usually spoken at home (2011 est.)
Government
National statistics office
Population, persons:
1,864,050
(2025)
Area, sq km:
62,230
GDP per capita, US$:
23,368
(2024)
GDP, billion current US$:
43.5
(2024)
GINI index:
34.0
(2023)
Ease of Doing Business rank:
19
Key Indicators
Rankings
Topics
Regions
Sources
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B
Bertelsmann Stiftung - BS
(1)
C
Cato Institute - CATO
(1)
Charities Aid Foundation - CAF
(1)
Chinn-Ito Index
(1)
D
DHL
(1)
E
Economic Policy Uncertainty - policyuncertainty
(1)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD
(1)
European Commission - EC
(1)
F
Freedom House - FH
(2)
Fund for Peace - FFP
(1)
G
Germanwatch
(1)
Global Democracy Ranking
(1)
Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute - GEDI
(1)
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - GEM
(2)
Global Finance Magazine
(1)
Global Hunger Index - GHI
(1)
Global Innovation Index - GII
(1)
H
Health Effects Institute - HEI
(1)
Heritage Foundation - HF
(1)
I
Institute for Economics and Peace - IEP
(2)
International Finance and Macroeconomics (IFM) Milken Institute - IFMMI
(1)
K
Knowledge4All
(1)
L
Legatum Institute
(1)
N
Numbeo
(1)
O
Open Data Research Network
(2)
Open Data Watch
(1)
Open Knowledge International - OKFN
(1)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD
(6)
Our World in Data - OWID
(1)
P
Philipps-University of Marburg, Empirical Institutional Economics - University of Marburg
(1)
Political Terror Scale - PTS
(1)
Property Rights Alliance - PRA
(1)
Q
Quality of Government Institute - qog
(1)
S
Scimago Institutions Rankings - SCIMAGOIR
(1)
SolAbility - SolAb
(1)
Strategy&
(1)
Sustainable Development Solutions Network - SDSN
(2)
Sustainable Governance Indicators - SGI
(1)
T
Tax Justice Network - TJN
(1)
U
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP
(1)
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - UNECE
(1)
United Nations Public Administration Country Studies - UNPACS
(1)
W
Walk Free Foundation
(1)
World Bank - WB
(3)
World Economic Forum - WEF
(2)
World Economics and Politics (WEP) Dataverse - WEP
(1)
World Energy Council
(1)
World Justice Project - WJP
(1)
Y
Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy - YCELP
(1)