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They're all Eurozone now, so EU citizens can move between those countries without issue. Part of the population decline can be attributed to youth moving to ce
by adamgravitis 13y ago
They're all Eurozone now, so EU citizens can move between those countries without issue. Part of the population decline can be attributed to youth moving to central Europe for work.
Additionally, other posters have been right about ethnic Russians leaving the Baltics, which is something governments have actually been trying to encourage anyhow. The Soviets had hugely increased the number of ethnic Russians in the Baltics, nearly to the point of overtaking the native populations.
Wikipedia has a partial graph for Latvia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Ethnic_groups_in_Latvia.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Ethnic_gr...
- rimantas 13y ago> The Soviets had hugely increased the number of ethnic > Russians in the Baltics It depends on country a lot. E.g. in Estonia 70% are Estonians and 25% are Russians, meanwhile in Lithuania 84% are Lithuanians and less than 6% are Russians—there are more Poles than Russians.