EU
Latvia
~28%
Work in exposed occupations
~250 k · estimate · 2025
7.3%
Unemployment
±0.0 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
16.0%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
2.2%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
78.2%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
12%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.63
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
883 k
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
LatviaEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Latvia
- 51Not exposed
- 21Minimal
- 4Low
- 11Medium
- 9High
- 4Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
−0.6%
Change 2025→2035
231 k
Total expected openings
2025–2035
237 k
Replacement demand
−5 k
Expansion
- Assemblers+50.8%
- Food preparation assistants+37.2%
- Information and communications technology professionals+31.1%
- General and keyboard clerks+27.8%
- Chief executives, senior officials and legislators+21.7%
- Science and engineering associate professionals+21.3%
- Sales workers−23.4%
- Protective services workers−24.9%
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers−31.5%
- Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers−33.5%
- Health associate professionals−34.1%
- Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers−60.5%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
13%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
37%
of skills will change
global: 39%
92%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.