Country scorecard
Latvia
Europe · 1.9M people
ALPS
1.99
languages per person
#28 of 235 most multilingual
GLCI
12%
globally connected
Strongly multilingual — the average person here speaks 2.0 languages.
Most connected partners
Where a random person from Latvia is most likely to share a language — the pair GLCI.
- 🇷🇺 Russia57%
- 🇧🇾 Belarus56%
- 🇦🇲 Armenia47%
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania47%
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine46%
What people speak
Share of the population with at least conversational (A2+) command.
- Latvian99%
- Russian55%
- English45%
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