Latvia
Country in Europe
In brief
Using the internet: 92.7% (2024). World rank 41 of 188 (1 = best); in Europe, 23 of 44. Access to electricity: 100% (2024). World rank 1 of 214 (1 = best); in Europe, 1 of 47. Electricity from renewables: 63.6% (2021). World rank 48 of 206 (1 = best); in Europe, 12 of 42. From 2015 to 2025: electricity use 3,491 → 4,038 (kWh per person) and electricity from fossil fuels 49.8% → 25.6%. Better than all its neighbours (Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, and Russia): renewable share of energy use. Worse than all its neighbours (Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, and Russia): home broadband per 100 people.
Internet and communications
Energy
Transport
- Driving side
- Right
- Air passengers per year
- 4,475,904 2023
- Airports
- 55 2025
- Railways, km
- 2,216 2020