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  • 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.)
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  • 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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    • Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (discontinued)
      September 2023
      Source: University of Oxford
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 17 September, 2023
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      University of Oxford baseline measure of variation in governments’ responses is the COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index. This composite measure is a simple additive score of seven indicators measured on an ordinal scale, rescaled to vary from 0 to 100. Please note that this measure is for comparative purposes only, and should not necessarily be interpreted as rating of the appropriateness or effectiveness of a country's response.   Data cited at: Hale, Thomas and Samuel Webster (2020). Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Data use policy: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY standard.