Latvia: 65% fewer births than in 1987
The peak was 41.2k births in 1987; in 2023, 14.3k. Fertility (1987–2023): 2.18 → 1.34 children per woman.
Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →
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- Latvia: the poorest report bad health 6.3 times as often as the richest
- Latvia’s National Alliance in 2018: more citizens will return than leave. In 2022, 3,243 more left than arrived
- Latvia in 2012 planned 28,000 births a year by 2020. There were 17,552, fewer than in 2011
- Resettling refugees under the 2015 European deal: 2 countries of 12 took all they pledged
- Goals to raise fertility: 1 of 7 came true. Lithuania expected 1.76 children per woman by 2023 and got 1.18
- Latvia: in April 2008 the European Commission expected growth of +2.5% for 2009. The outcome: −16.0%