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:1,820,099 (2024)
  • Area, sq km:62,230
  • GDP per capita, US$:23,184 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:43.6 (2023)
  • GINI index:34.3 (2021)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:19

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    • July 2023
      Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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      Accessed On: 27 July, 2023
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      Excess capacity is one of the main challenges facing the global steel sector. The OECD Steelmaking Capacity database contains data on crude steelmaking capacity by economy and provides researchers and policymakers with an important tool for analysing steel capacity developments.