Latvia

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    1,929,938 1
    Urban
    68.10% 1
    Rural
    31.90% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    13.4% 2
    Homicides
    4.11 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    44 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    18 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.51 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.80% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    74 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    99.90% 5
    Internet Users
    76% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$15,280 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    1.4% 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    376,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    19.69
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    3,437
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    468
    First Communions per Year
    1,739
    Confirmations per Year
    1,236
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    363
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    56
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    59
    Church Marriages per Year
    791
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    616
    Priests
    157
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    106
    Catholics per Priest
    2,393
    Parishes
    254
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    9
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    1
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.