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Latvia's engineers speak English at a level that most of Central and Eastern Europe does not match, they sit in a full working day with London and Berlin, and they built a consumer lending and payments cluster that punches far above a country of 1.8 million people.",[],{"type":24,"text":733,"spans":734,"direction":20},"That last number is also the problem. Latvia is shrinking, faster than almost anywhere in Europe, and Eurostat expects its working-age population to fall by nearly a third by 2050. Hiring here works well if you treat it as a market for a few excellent people you intend to keep, and badly if you treat it as a pipeline. We've placed 250+ developers at 70+ companies since 2019 and interviewed more than 10,000 engineers getting there. 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Spoken English scores 542, far ahead of most markets at this price point.",[],{"type":69,"text":753,"spans":754,"direction":20},"Riga is a genuine fintech and product cluster for its size, home to Printful, Printify, Lokalise, Mintos, Nordigen, Sonarworks, Aerones, and Setupad, with roughly €600 million of startup funding raised in 2024.",[],{"type":69,"text":756,"spans":757,"direction":20},"The pool is small. 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Latvia scores 605 on reading, 586 on listening, 551 on writing, and 542 on speaking. Riga as a city scores 611, which sits inside the very-high band outright.",[],{"type":24,"text":875,"spans":876,"direction":20},"That speaking figure deserves attention, because it is the number that usually disappoints. Across the markets we've looked at recently, spoken English lags reading badly: Peru scores 480 on speaking, Uruguay 483, and neighbouring Lithuania 470. Latvia's 542 is sixty to seventy points clear of all of them. There is still a gap between reading and speaking here, as there is almost everywhere, but it starts from a much higher floor and lands comfortably inside the high band rather than dropping out of it.",[],{"type":24,"text":878,"spans":879,"direction":20},"What this means in practice is that Latvia is one of the few markets at this price point where a candidate's written fluency is a reasonably reliable signal of how they'll handle a live design review or an incident call. 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Analysts put the annual decline at 18,000 to 20,000 people, which is a medium-sized Latvian town every year.",[],{"type":24,"text":905,"spans":906,"direction":20},"The forward projection is the part that matters for workforce planning. Eurostat expects Latvia's working-age population, the 15 to 64 cohort, to fall by almost 30% by 2050, from about 1.167 million to 823,000. The mean age is already 43.7, over a fifth of the population is 65 or older, and under-15s make up less than 15%.",[],{"type":24,"text":908,"spans":909,"direction":20},"Two honest qualifications. Net migration turned modestly positive in recent years, with something like 8,000 more arrivals than departures in 2023, so the trend is not purely one-directional. 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When replacing a senior engineer takes months rather than weeks, the arithmetic on compensation reviews, interesting work, and autonomy changes. Losing someone costs you more than their salary. Our notes on attracting top developer talent apply with extra force where the replacement bench is genuinely thin.",[919],{"start":920,"end":921,"type":506,"data":922},253,284,{"link_type":508,"url":923,"target":510},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.remotecrew.io\u002Fblog\u002Fattract-top-developer-talent",{"type":24,"text":925,"spans":926,"direction":20},"And you are bidding against Western Europe with no friction in the way. Latvia is in the EU, the euro, and Schengen, so a strong Riga engineer can take a remote role for a German, Dutch, or Nordic company at that country's rates, or relocate outright with no visa process. 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