Since 1950 there has been a relatively large difference in the number of males and females in Latvia, particularly when put in context with the total overall population. The number of women exceeds the number of men by over 260 thousand in 1950, which is one of the long-term effects of the Second World War. During the war, Latvia lost approximately 12.5 percent of its overall population, an the number of women was already higher than men before this, however the war caused this gap in population to widen much further. From 1950 onwards both male and female populations grow, and by 1990 the gap has shrunk down to 180,000 people. In 1990 Latvia gained it's independence from the Soviet Union, and from this point both populations begin to decline, falling to 870 thousand men in 2020, and just over one million women, with a difference of 150 thousand people.

Latvia LV: Population: Female: Ages 45-49: % of Female Population data was reported at 6.479 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 6.412 % for 2016. Latvia LV: Population: Female: Ages 45-49: % of Female Population data is updated yearly, averaging 6.657 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7.665 % in 1973 and a record low of 4.640 % in 1965. Latvia LV: Population: Female: Ages 45-49: % of Female Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Latvia – Table LV.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Female population between the ages 45 to 49 as a percentage of the total female population.; ; World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision.; ;

This graph shows the total population of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the years between 1922 and 1935, as well as the total number of males and females. After the First World War the Baltic states began claiming their independence from tsarist Russia, as the events of the Russian Revolution took place. Inter-war Estonia The Estonian War of Independence from 1918 to 1920 led to the country's first period of independence, until it became occupied by the Soviet Union again in 1940 during the Second World War. After Estonia gained independence the country experienced a period of political turmoil, including a failed coup d'etat in 1924, and was hit hard by the Great Depression in 1929 before things became more stable in the mid 1930s. Between 1939 and 1945 Estonia's population was devastated by the Second World War, with some estimates claiming that as many as 7.3 percent of all civilians perished as a result of the conflict. From the graph we can see the population grew by 119 thousand people during the 12 years shown, growing from 1.107 million to 1.126 million. The number of women was also higher than the number of men during this time, by 67 thousand in 1922 and 68 thousand in 1934. Inter-war Latvia For Latvia, Independence was a hard-won struggle that had devastated the population in the late 1910s. Similarly to Estonia, the advent of independence brought many challenges to Latvia, and a period of political and economic turmoil followed, which was exacerbated by the Great Depression in 1929. After economic recovery began in 1933, and a coup d'etat established stricter control in 1934, the Latvian economy and political landscape became more stable and the quality of life improved. This lasted until the Second World War, where Latvia became one of the staging grounds of Germany's war against Soviet Russia, and approximately 12.5 percent of all civilians died. From the data we can see that Latvia's population between 1925 and 1935 grew steadily by 95,000 in this decade, with the number of men and women growing at a similar rate. Inter-war Lithuania Lithuania's experience in the interwar period was slightly different to that of Latvia and Estonia. The end of the First World War led to a growing movement for independence from German, Russian or Polish influence, however these countries were reluctant to cede control to one another, and independence was finally achieved in 1922. A right wing dictatorship was established in 1926, which maintained political and civil control until the outbreak of the Second World War, however interference from other nations, particularly Germany, was ever-present in Lithuanian economic activity. From the graph we have only one set of figures, showing that the Lithuanian population was just over 2 million in 1929, with approximately 5 percent more women than men. World War II again devastated Lithuania's population, with almost 14.4 percent of the entire population falling during the conflict.

WorldPop produces different types of gridded population count datasets, depending on the methods used and end application. Please make sure you have read our Mapping Populations overview page before choosing and downloading a dataset.

A description of the modelling methods used for age and gender structures can be found in "https://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-7954-11-11" target="_blank"> Tatem et al and Pezzulo et al. Details of the input population count datasets used can be found here, and age/gender structure proportion datasets here.
Both top-down 'unconstrained' and 'constrained' versions of the datasets are available, and the differences between the two methods are outlined here. The datasets represent the outputs from a project focused on construction of consistent 100m resolution population count datasets for all countries of the World structured by male/female and 5-year age classes (plus a <1 year class). These efforts necessarily involved some shortcuts for consistency. The unconstrained datasets are available for each year from 2000 to 2020.
The constrained datasets are only available for 2020 at present, given the time periods represented by the building footprint and built settlement datasets used in the mapping.
Data for earlier dates is available directly from WorldPop.

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00646

This dataset contains data on population movement (population, marriages, births, deaths, infant deaths (under 1 year), natural increase of population) in Latvia in 1919-1939. Data on the number of population (male, female, total) were used from the dataset “Number of Population in Counties in Latvia, 1919-1939”. For sources of the data see metadata field Origin of Sources below. Dataset "Population Movement in Latvia, 1919-1939" was published implementing project "Historical Sociology of Modern Restorations: a Cross-Time Comparative Study of Post-Communist Transformation in the Baltic States" from 2018 to 2022. Project leader is prof. Zenonas Norkus. Project is funded by the European Social Fund according to the activity "Improvement of researchers' qualification by implementing world-class R&D projects' of Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712".

Total usually resident population by place of usual residence, sex, current activity status (number of employed persons), country/place of birth and place of usual residence one year prior to the census of the 2021 population and housing census results geocoded to a 1 km2 European grid. Data aggregation of 13 indicators for 6 topics (total population, sex (male, female), age (under 15 years, 15 – 64 years, 65 years and over), current activity status (employed), country of birth (reporting country, other Memberstate, elsewhere), place of usual residence one year prior to the census (usual residence unchanged, move within reporting country, move from the outside of the reporting country)) was done. The data tables are made as SDMX compliant (based on SDMX GRID DSDs). ‘Geographic Information System’ (GIS) software performed the following steps: 1. Given (national) coordinates were transformed into the required EU grid reference frame. 2. The corresponding 1 km² grid cell in which the transformed coordinates lie was identified. 3. The respective grid cell code was allocated to the microdata record in question. Data aggregation was made on estimated individual data based on registers. The difference between the Latvian 1km2 network and the European 1km2 network is that they are located at a different angle to each other.

This dataset contains two data tables on number of population in counties in Latvia in 1919-1939. In the data table LiDA_HistatData_0245_Data_0001_v2 data of number of male, female and total in the cells (1920-1924, 1931, 1936-1939 by administrative region) is computed by interpolating data published in Latvian statistical publications (a more detailed description of is provided in the document LiDA_HistatData_0245_Interpolation_0001_v1.pdf). The data table LiDA_HistatData_0245_Data_0002_v1 of the mid-year population data is computed by interpolated population data. Mid-year population data is arithmetic mean of the population of two consecutive years (data of beginning or end of the year) (a more detailed description of is provided in the document LiDA_HistatData_0245_Interpolation_0002_v1.pdf). The aim of such an computation was to have standardized data for the mid-year population data. Dataset "Number of Population in Counties in Latvia, 1919-1939" was published implementing project "Historical Sociology of Modern Restorations: a Cross-Time Comparative Study of Post-Communist Transformation in the Baltic States" from 2018 to 2022. Project leader is prof. Zenonas Norkus. Project is funded by the European Social Fund according to the activity "Improvement of researchers' qualification by implementing world-class R&D projects' of Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712".

There were 1 169 600 Facebook users in Latvia in January 2024, which accounted for 65.9% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 57.2%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (262 800). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 65 and above, where women lead by 29 700.

Latvia LV: Population: Total data was reported at 1,940,740.000 Person in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,959,537.000 Person for 2016. Latvia LV: Population: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 2,371,969.500 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,666,955.000 Person in 1989 and a record low of 1,940,740.000 Person in 2017. Latvia LV: Population: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Latvia – Table LV.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Sum; Relevance to gender indicator: disaggregating the population composition by gender will help a country in projecting its demand for social services on a gender basis.

Latvia LV: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data was reported at 74.529 Year in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 74.480 Year for 2015. Latvia LV: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 69.879 Year from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 74.529 Year in 2016 and a record low of 65.664 Year in 1994. Latvia LV: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Latvia – Table LV.World Bank: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;