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Thursday, 18.04.2024, 14:42
Decline in number of both newborn and deaths registered in Latvia in 9 months
Print versionThe number of
newborn does not include children born outside Latvia to mother (usually
resident of Latvia) while temporarily abroad. The data on children born abroad
will be available in April 2018.
During the first
nine months of the year, positive changes may be observed in the death number
(21 363 deaths were registered) – a drop of 46 deaths, compared
to the corresponding period of the previous year.
Natural increase
in Latvia has been negative since 1991. Until September 2017, as the number of
deaths exceeded the number of births, Latvia population declined by
5 639 persons (in the corresponding period of 2016 – by 4 572).
In
January–September, 10 996 marriages were registered in Latvia, which is
227 marriages more than in the corresponding period of the last year.
On 1 October 2016,
the provisional number of Latvia inhabitants accounted for 1 million
933 thousand.
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