1. MigrationLatvia

   Latvia: in 2014–2024 36.4k more people left than arrived — Eurostat expected −148k in 2013

   ActualEurostat projection 2013

   Eurostat's 2013 projection assumed that over these years 148k more would leave than arrive; the gap with the outcome is 112k people. The outcome: Eurostat data on arrivals and departures.

   Source: Eurostat: EUROPOP projections (2013 and 2015: Internet Archive copies of Eurostat files) and statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• 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%

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