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Riga City Council disputes CSB data on the population

BC, Riga, 27.10.2017.Print version
Information at the Riga City Council’s disposal suggests that at the beginning of this year there were 704,476 people registered as the Latvian capital city’s residents, which is nearly 63,000 people more than the figure given by the Central Statistics Bureau (CSB), the city council’s spokesman Ugis Vidauskis told LETA.

The local authority of Riga uses population data provided by the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which is the only authentic source of the registered population data, based on information from the Latvian Population Register.

 

According to the data from the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, the population of Riga increased by 5,947 people, or by almost 1%, last year.

 

These data also show that Riga had 698,529 registered residents in January 2016 and 704,476 registered residents in January 2017, and not 641,500 residents as claimed by the CSB. “Riga was thus the only large city of Latvia to see the size of its population grow during this period,” Vidauskis said.

 

According to the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs’ statistics, the population of Riga has contracted by roughly 20,000 over the past decade, from 723,000 people in 2007, but the city council’s representatives consider this to be a “small figure in comparison with the overall reduction of the country’s population”.

 

As reported, according to CSB data, the population of Riga has decreased by 121,000 people or about 16% in the past 17 years.

 

The CSB puts the number of residents in Riga this year at 641,500, down from 761,500 in 2000.

 

The Riga center and the center neighborhood saw the biggest drop in the number of residents – from 50,929 people in 2000 to 30,171 people early this year.

 

The statistics office said that obvious population increase may be seen in territories with the largest multi-dwelling buildings commissioned during this period, for example in neighborhoods of Dreilini and Skanste. However, the most dramatic population decline may be observed in the central part of the city and many neighborhoods with multi-dwelling buildings erected during the Soviet period.

 






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