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Latvia

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Author(s): Ringolds Balodis
I. Social Facts According to publicly available data from 2011, there are approximately 2,067,887 inhabitants in Latvia. In terms of national or ethnic composition, more than 60% are ethnic Latvians and 26.9% are Russians. Among other ethnicities are Belarusians (3.3%), Ukrainians (2.2%), Poles (2.2%), Lithuanians (1.2%), Jews (0.3%), and Estonians (0.1%). Latvia is a multi-confessional country in which the three largest denominations are Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. The religious aff…