Ieva Leiniša/LETA

Children aged 14 and under made up 14.8 % of the total population, with the greatest proportion of them registered in Rīga region. Migration data show that the population of Rīga region keeps growing. The proportion of Latvians, as against other ethnicities, is also increasing, as is the number of citizens of Latvia.

The proportion of older people (65 years and over) increased by 0.5 percentage points and made up 22.4 % of all inhabitants, while the population of children (14 years...