Population  2.23 million (estimate at July 2009)
Life expectancy at birth: 66.98 years (male), 77.59 years female (2009 data)

Ethnic groups – Latvian 59%, Russian 29%, Belarussian 4%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.3%, others 3%  (2009 data).

Language – Latvian is currently the only officially recognised language.  Actual first language speakers: Latvian 58%, Russian 37.5%, Lithuanian and other (Jewish, Roma, Estonian, German) 4%  (data from a census in 2000)

Religion – Lutheran 20%, Orthodox 15%, other Christian 1%, no specified religion 64% (data from 2006).