Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling in Latvia
Latvia: Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling was 1.34 live births per woman in 2024. ▼ Falling
Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling in Latvia, 1950–2024
Source: Human Fertility Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in live births per woman.
Analysis
Latvia recorded 1.34 live births per woman for fertility rate vs. average years of schooling in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and down 18.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fertility rate vs. average years of schooling in Latvia peaked at 2.18 live births per woman in 1987 and was at its lowest, 1.1 live births per woman, in 1998.
That places Latvia 205th out of 236 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 75 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 1.92 live births per woman | 1.84 live births per woman | 2.08 live births per woman | 10 |
| 1960s | 1.86 live births per woman | 1.73 live births per woman | 1.96 live births per woman | 10 |
| 1970s | 1.93 live births per woman | 1.85 live births per woman | 2.02 live births per woman | 10 |
| 1980s | 2.05 live births per woman | 1.87 live births per woman | 2.18 live births per woman | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.42 live births per woman | 1.1 live births per woman | 1.99 live births per woman | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.38 live births per woman | 1.22 live births per woman | 1.58 live births per woman | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.57 live births per woman | 1.34 live births per woman | 1.74 live births per woman | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.45 live births per woman | 1.34 live births per woman | 1.57 live births per woman | 5 |
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More education data for Latvia
- Duration of pre-primary education 4 years (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 62.6% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 15.2% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 13 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 7 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 97.6% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 9,966 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 97.8% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male 97.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fertility rate vs. average years of schooling in Latvia?
- Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling in Latvia was 1.34 live births per woman in 2024, according to Human Fertility Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest fertility rate vs. average years of schooling recorded in Latvia?
- The highest recorded value was 2.18 live births per woman in 1987.
- What is the lowest fertility rate vs. average years of schooling recorded in Latvia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.1 live births per woman in 1998.
- How does Latvia rank for fertility rate vs. average years of schooling?
- Latvia ranks 205th out of 236 countries with data for 2024.
- Is fertility rate vs. average years of schooling rising or falling in Latvia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Latvia data come from?
- The figures come from Human Fertility Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The average number of live births a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality.