The use of paid cloud computing services is increasing in Latvian enterprises

Results of the Central Statistical Bureau annual survey on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and e-commerce in enterprises show that in 2025, 51.9 % of Latvian enterprises used cloud computing services¹. In turn, 12.2 % of enterprises used artificial intelligence solutions. The number of enterprises that hand over their obsolete ICT equipment to electronic waste collection points, rather than storing it at their own premises, has also increased. 

Use of cloud computing services

In 2025, more than a half or 51.9 % of enterprises are using cloud computing services, while paid cloud computing services are used by 44.1 % of all enterprises, and that is 8.3 percentage points more than in 2023. In the group of large enterprises paid cloud computing services are used by 83.4% (growth of 3.7 percentage points), in the group of medium-sized enterprises by 59.2% (increase of 7.5 percentage points), but in the group of small enterprises by 40.1% (rise of 8.2 percentage points)². 

Artificial intelligence 

In 2025, 12.2 % of enterprises (of which 47.1 % of large enterprises, 19.8 % of medium-sized enterprises and 9.8 % of small enterprises) use at least one AI solution, which is 3.4 percentage points more than in 2024. The most popular solutions are written language analysis – it converts spoken language into machine-readable format and can generate written or spoken language; 9.1 % of enterprises use this technology. 

Technologies that generate images, video, or sound are used by 5.5 % of enterprises. In turn, 10.2 % of enterprises are considering using some form of artificial intelligence technology in the future. The main reason mentioned for not having done this so far is most often the lack of appropriate expertise (63.2 % of enterprises that have considered this option).

ICT and environment 

13.9 % of enterprises, considering their environmental impact, use ICT systems or solutions that help reduce energy consumption. The largest number of such enterprises was in the group of large enterprises – 50.2 %, but in the group of medium-sized and small enterprises – 25.3 % and 10.7 %, respectively. 

Survey data on obsolete ICT equipment show that 76.3% of enterprises hand it over to electronic waste collection points, 39.8 % store it in the enterprise, and 22.2 % sell or return it to the leasing enterprise. Compared to the 2022 survey data, the share of enterprises that store obsolete ICT equipment in the enterprise has decreased by 8.3 percentage points. 

ICT and environment; 2025

(% of all enterprises)

Refer to the OSP database: EPE050

E-commerce

One of indicators characterizing development of e-commerce3 is share of enterprises selling goods or services over the internet using websites or applications, or electronic data interchange system (EDI4). In 2024, 19.6 % of enterprises conducted e-commerce. Compared to 2023, this indicator has not changed significantly. In the group of large enterprises, there was an increase of 3.0 percentage points, with 46.6 % of enterprises conducting online sales. In the group of small enterprises, the indicator has remained unchanged (17.1 %), while in the group of medium-sized enterprises selling goods or services over the internet it increased by 0.7 percentage points, reaching 29.1 %. 

In 2024, 17.3 % of enterprises received online orders from customers (buyers of goods or services) in Latvia, 8.3 % from customers in other EU Member States and 3.7 % from customers in the rest of the world.

Of all enterprises that sold goods or services online, 81.3 % sold physical goods, 18.7 % sold services that were not delivered digitally (e.g., accommodation, travel, repair services, etc.), and 12.7 % sold digital goods or services delivered digitally (e.g., software, downloads or streaming services, licenses, e-books, etc.).

Use of internet in enterprises

Fixed internet is used by 81.3 % of enterprises, of which – 98.7 % by large, 88.8 % by medium-sized and 79.4 % by small enterprises. For work internet is used by 63.9 % of all employees of enterprises, and that is 2.1 percentage points more than a year ago.

68.8 % of enterprises have their own website, which is 1.6 percentage points more than in 2023. In group of large enterprises this indicator comprises 97.8 %, of medium-sized enterprises – 87.0 %, but of small enterprises – 64.6 %.

The survey was carried out at the beginning of 2025 with European Union co-funding to obtain qualitative and internationally comparable information on the use of ICT and the development of e-commerce in enterprises with 10 or more employees.

Methodological explanations:

¹ The survey covered enterprises employing ten or more people in the following economic activities: manufacturing, electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, construction, trade, hotels and restaurants, transportation and storage, information and communication, real estate activities, professional, scientific and technical activities, administrative and support service activities and repair of computers and communication equipment.

² Large enterprises – those employing 250 and more people, medium-sized – those employing 50– 249 people, and small – those employing 10 to 49 people.

³ E-commerce is sales of goods or services over the internet on the enterprise website, on e-commerce websites used by several enterprises, as well as sales using electronic data exchange (exchange of entrepreneurship documents in standard electronic form among business partners, which is suitable for automated order processing). 

⁴ Electronic data interchange (EDI) – structured transmission of data from one computer system to another using standardized message formats.

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Inga Pribitoka
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