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Number of non-citizens in Latvia's population reduced from 13% to 12.1% in 2014
BC, Riga, 22.01.2015.
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Print versionDuring the year 2014, the number of non-citizens in Latvia's total population has reduced from 13% to 12.1%, the head of the Naturalization Department at the Office for Citizenship and Migrations Affairs Igors Gorbunovs said at Saeima Citizenship, Migration and Social Cohesion Committee.
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He said that the current number of non-citizens living in the country is 262,030.
On January 1, 2014, the number of non-citizens living in Latvia was 282,876, or 13% of the total population, Gorbunovs told LETA.
This means that the number of non-citizens reduced by about 20,000 persons last year.
Gorbunovs pointed out that this is a larger reduction than usual, as the number of non-citizens in previous years used to reduce by about 15,000 persons per year.
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