page_title: Poles in Latvia
section_title: Demography
hierarchical_section_title: Poles in Latvia / Demography
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethnic Poles percentage in the Daugavpils district, Latvia. Statistic data (2006) from the Daugavpils district official site http://www.drp.lv
context_page_description: The Polish minority in Latvia numbers about 51,548 and forms 2.3% of the population of Latvia. Poles are concentrated in the former Inflanty Voivodeship region, with about 18,000 in Daugavpils and 17,000 in Riga. People of Polish ethnicity have lived on the territory of modern Latvia since the 16th century. In modern Latvia their citizenship status vary: non-citizens of Latvia, as citizens of Poland, or as citizens of Latvia.
context_section_description: Mixed marriages are common for the ethnic Poles in Latvia: per cent distribution of males with spouse of different ethnicity was 89%, of females with spouse of different ethnicity was 90% (1990-2007)
caption: Percentage of ethnic Poles in Daugavpils district (2006)
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