Global Value Chains

Global value chains comprise the full range of cross-border activities required to bring a product or service from conception through the different production and delivery phases to final consumers.

Statistics on global value chains provide information on Latvian enterprises that engaged in international business processes to create their own value. For example, purchased goods, materials or services from foreign partners or supplied their own goods, materials or services to foreign partners. Global value chain statistics include information on the international sourcing, motivation factors and barriers for international sourcing, as well as on jobs created and lost in relation to these activities.

The data is collected on active enterprises with 50 or more employees.

Active enterprises with the number of employees 50 or more.

Active enterprises whose main activity corresponds to NACE Rev. 2 Sections B to N.

• The data are collected according to the gentlemen's agreement within the context of the development of Structural Business Statistics.
• The Parliament and Council Regulation No 295/2008 concerning Structural Business statistics provides a legal basis for the data collection.

Statistics database

The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) on its website publishes information on the EU-27 and on each country separately. In Section: Global value chains.

• Statistical data on the international sourcing are available for the reference period from 2018 to 2020.
• The GVC arrangements and the statistics on the impact of COVID-19 are only available for 2020.

The data is comparable with the Structural Business Statistics.

The data source is survey elaborated by Eurostat and adapted for national needs by the CSB 1-GVC “Global value chain”.

All economically active enterprises with 50 or more employees are surveyed.

Indicators are calculated from separate elements of data submitted by enterprises. Data were collected from legal units (total in 2021: 1 788), but compiled and published on enterprise level according to the definition of an enterprise used in statistics (total: 1 659 in 2021).