The number of unemployed people in Latvia totalled 63,100 at the end of 2023, which was 700 more than in the same period of 2022, according to the Central Statistical Bureau’s (CSP) estimate, LSM reports. The country’s actual unemployment rate stood at 6.6%, which was unchanged from a year earlier. The number of unemployed men…
Latvia had a total of 62,200 people unemployed in July 2023, which was 4,100 less than a year earlier but 600 more than a month ago, according to the Central Statistical Bureau’s labour force survey, LSM reports. Latvia’s actual unemployment rate stood at 6.5% in July 2023, which was down 0.4 percentage points from a…
Shorter alcohol sale hours in Lithuania have led to a decline in male deaths on Sundays and Mondays, according to a new study, BNS reports. Daumantas Stumbrys, senior researcher at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU), found that the mortality rate spiked on Sundays and Mondays, but had decreased to the weekly average since…