https://www.politico.eu/article/latvia-a-disappearing-nation-migration-population-decline/Latvia, a disappearing nation
January 5, 2018
Since it joined the EU, the country has lost one-fifth of its population.
To be sure, economic migration is not the only reason for the country’s declining population. The small Baltic republic’s comparatively low birth rate and high mortality rate are also contributing factors.
“Borders are open, information about life in other EU states is available and everyone is doing it. So, off our young people go to England or Ireland or Germany” — Aleksandr Rube, journalist