Forecasts from the Ministry of Economics indicate that by 2040 the working-age population in Latvia could decline by approximately 9.4 per cent. Opportunities to significantly increase the supply of local labour will be limited.

At the start of the year, 15,177 third-country citizens were residing in Latvia on the basis of employment, representing 16 per cent of all third-country nationals with the right to work in Latvia. However, it is not clear to the state in which sectors, occ...