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  • Population......................................................................2,245,423 (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................-0.629% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate.....................................................9.62 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Death rate................................................13.63 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................-2.29 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.......Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% (2002)
Member of the European Union since May 2004
Latvia Looks West, But Legacy of Soviets Remains
Although this former Soviet republic joined the European Union in 2004, its main concern is its large ethnic Russian population. Tim Heleniak of the University of Maryland explains.

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