Among the EU countries, the highest shares of people facing difficulties in remembering or concentrating were recorded in Finland (33.6%), Denmark (26.7%), the Netherlands (26.0%), Sweden (25.2%) and Estonia (24.9%). In contrast, the lowest percentages were reported in Cyprus (5.7%), Malta (6.5%), Ireland (7.3%), Bulgaria (7.9%) and Hungary (8.0%). Latvians were averagely forgetful with 15.7 % of people reporting moderate or severe difficulty with remembering or concentrating.
Thus it might be claimed that Latvians are less forgetful than Estonians but marginally more forgetful than Lithuanians (15.6%),
On a side note, Latvia was among the EU countries recording a large disparity in reported difficulties with remembering and concentrating between individuals at risk of poverty and those not at risk. The gap recorded in Croatia was largest at 23.9 pp (16.2% of those not at risk of poverty reporting difficulties in remembering or concentrating, compared with 40.1% for people at risk of poverty) and in Estonia it was 21.2 pp (19.4% compared with 40.6%). Significant differences were also observed in Latvia (16.2 pp), Sweden (15.8 pp) and the Netherlands (14.3 pp).
