Latvia
Republic of Latvia
- Capital
- Riga
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Population, 2025
- 1.8 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 64,559 km²
Across Latvia's 17 priced cities, one person needs about $1,595 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,554.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
64out of 100
- Purchasing power25%60
- Safety20%64
- Health care15%64
- Climate10%73
- Air quality10%95
- Connectivity10%60
- Cost10%41
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #39
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
66.4
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
13.2
New York = 100
Purchasing power
111.3
New York = 100
One person
$1,595
A month, rent included
Net salary
$1,554
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$597
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$26,312
2025
Growth
+2.1%
2025
Unemployment
6.6%
2025
Inflation
3.7%
2025
Life expectancy
76.4 years
2024
Internet users
93%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 36%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 20%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 21%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 25.5%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 10.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 23.6%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 64.0
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 36.0
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 2.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #60 worldwide
- 124
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #35 worldwide
- 124
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +14%
Cities in Latvia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Riga | 64 | 66.4 | $597 | $1,554 | 111.3 | 742.6K | High confidence, 126 contributors |
| 2Jelgava | 62 | 55.8 | $333 | $1,646 | 160.6 | 54.8K | Medium confidence, 19 contributors |
| 3Cesis | 62 | 65.6 | — | $1,914 | 168.5 | 15K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 4Jekabpils | 57 | 59.0 | $230 | $1,004 | 102.9 | 21K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 5Gulbene | 57 | 65.7 | $195 | — | — | 6.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Ventspils | 57 | 59.1 | — | — | — | 32.7K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 7Madona | 56 | 64.8 | — | — | — | 6.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 8Valmiera | 56 | 63.9 | $344 | — | — | 22.8K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 9Olaine | 56 | 66.5 | $310 | — | — | 9.7K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 10Saldus | 56 | 66.0 | — | — | — | 9.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Ainazi | 56 | 66.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 12Daugavpils | 56 | 58.3 | $347 | $1,000 | 93.5 | 78.1K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 13Rezekne | 56 | — | $209 | $812 | — | 26.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Talsi | 56 | — | — | — | — | 8.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Livani | 56 | — | $116 | — | — | 6.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Aizkraukle | 56 | — | — | — | — | 6.7K | Low confidence |
| 17Mazsalaca | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 18Auce | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Liepaja | 55 | 61.8 | $321 | $1,126 | 103.0 | 67.4K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 20Ogre | 55 | 60.9 | $313 | $928 | 86.4 | 22.8K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 21Tukums | 53 | 55.3 | $230 | $574 | 61.9 | 16.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 22Jurmala | 49 | 61.3 | $1,091 | $1,148 | 65.2 | 52K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 23Dobele | 48 | 65.9 | $290 | $418 | 37.3 | 8.5K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |