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ISO 3166
LV
Main language + region
lv-LV
Currency
EUR · Euro
Region
EMEA · EU/UK

Latvia

Latvia has 1.8M people, and 1.7M of them are online. Latvian is the most widely spoken language at 61%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Latvian is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to lv-LV.

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Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

1.7M

0%world median 81%100%

93% of 1.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$26,312

Higher than 70% of 213 territories

GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.

Can pay online

95%

0%world median 71%100%

Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.

Languages

4

Latvian 61% · English 46% · Russian 38%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.

English proficiency

—

Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.

Adult literacy

100%

0%world median 95%100%

Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.

What people speak

Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.

Most spoken in Latvia

share of 1.8M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (lv-LV).

Plural categories

3

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Latin

Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

2026. gada 21. aprīlis

Short: 21.04.26

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1234,56 €

1,234.56 in EUR · Euro