Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Latvia’s quota for redistribution of refugees could be 220 persons
• Latvia lost 700,000 people during the last 25 years and may need up to 100,000 labour migrants over the next 6-8 years 

Newspapers report that according to provisional information, Latvia’s quota for redistribution of 20,000 refugees every year within the EU could be 220 persons. Neatkariga, Vesti Segodnya 

Vesti Segodnya reports about the European mobility conference held recently in Riga. According to demographer Peteris Zvidrins, Latvia lost 700,000 people during the last 25 years: the population declined from nearly 2.7 million to nearly 2 million, while the population of Riga declined from close to 1 million to less than 650,000 people. According to forecasts publicised by the European Commission, the population of Latvia will decline by 30% (to 1.4 million) during the next 45 years. Professor Mihails Hazans stated that during 2002-2012, 10% of the population emigrated. The head of the IOM in Latvia Ilmars Mezs highlighted that Latvia will face the next critical turn in demographic situation within the next 3-5 years, because the number of women of childbearing age will decline and thus the population will decline further. According to experts, migrants could fill up the population gap in Latvia. Ilmars Mezs believes that over the next 6-8 years Latvia would need up to 100,000 labour migrants. Mihails Hazans considers that Latvia could accept up to 5-7,000 people per year.