Firstly of this yr, based on the Workplace of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, there have been 674,500 inhabitants residing in Riga, and their quantity decreased by 0.7% over the yr.
The variety of residents within the capital has been steadily declining since 2017. Solely in 2022 did the inflow of Ukrainian refugees change this development.
Final yr, Riga had a working inhabitants of 378,200, which is 3,000 greater than the earlier yr. The share of this group within the metropolis’s inhabitants remained at 62%.
The variety of kids and youth didn’t change over the yr and amounted to 92,400 individuals.
The inhabitants over working age in Riga was 138,800 individuals or 22.8% of the whole inhabitants.
The common age of the inhabitants in Riga was 42 years, which corresponds to the nationwide common.
The ethnic composition of the capital’s inhabitants additionally didn’t change considerably; originally of 2023, 47% Latvians and 35% Russians lived in Riga.
In flip, the variety of Ukrainians on account of immigration elevated from 3.5% to 4.9%.
Knowledge from the Central Statistical Workplace (CSO) exhibits that originally of this yr, Latvia had 1.872 million inhabitants, down 0.6% or 11,100 from a yr in the past.
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2024-06-22 02:18:35