According to ministry estimates, at the height of the economic downturn in 2009-2010 about 38,000–40,000 people left Latvia each year.
Despite that emigration is declining, the net migration was still negative at -7,900 in 2015.
Baranovs also noted a positive tendency in that people are becoming more interested in moving back.
For example, almost 24,000 people from abroad visited the Latvija.lv government portal's section on re-emigration in 2015, which is 10,000 more than in 2014.
