Lithuania in numbers

One page for most subjects, each running from about 1990 to today: the figure on a card is the newest observation and the page behind it is the whole record. The remaining cards show the newest reading alone, with its period and its source — their pages are still being written.

Population

Population
2.89 m
2026-09
± 0 % since 2026-08
History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Fertility
1.1 children per woman
2024
▼ 5.9 % since 2023
Replacement level: 2.1 children per woman

Eurostat baseline projection (EUROPOP2025): population in 2050 — 2.49 m, in 2100 — 1.93 m (now 2.89 m). Arithmetic: at 1.1 and with no migration, each generation would be roughly 53 % the size of its parents' (replacement level 2.1).

Crude birth rate: 6.1 / 1,000 (2025) · ▼ 0.5 pp since 2024
History →
Source: Eurostat
Mortality
2,798 deaths in the month
2026-08
▼ 4.5 % since 2025-08
Full year: 37,491 deaths (2025) · ▲ 0.1 % since 2024
History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Net migration
16,777
2025
▼ 27.5 % since 2024

How many more people left Lithuania than arrived, every year since 1990: the 2010 emigration peak and the return to net immigration.

History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Life expectancy
73.0 years
2024
▲ 0.1 % since 2023

Life expectancy at birth in Lithuania, men and women separately, from 1970 to today. Eurostat.

History →
Source: Eurostat
Infant mortality
2.9 / 1,000 live births
2024
▲ 3.6 % since 2023

How many children die before their first birthday in Lithuania, per 1,000 live births, from 1960 to today. Eurostat.

History →
Source: Eurostat
Road deaths
138
2025
▲ 11.3 % since 2024

How many people are killed in road accidents in Lithuania each year, from 2000 to today. Statistics Lithuania.

History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Suicides
18.1 per 100,000
2025
▼ 7.7 % since 2024

How many people in Lithuania die by suicide each year: the rate per 100,000 residents and the number of deaths, from 2000. Statistics Lithuania.

History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Foreigners with residence permits
226,999
2026-09-01
▲ 1.3 % since 2026-08-01
of them under temporary protection: 51,918
From where? →
Source: Migration Department

Money

Inflation
5.6 %
2026-08
▲ 0.2 pp since 2026-07
History →
Source: Eurostat
Avg. wage
2,628 € gross / 1,595 € net
2026 Q2
gross ▲ 2.9 % since 2026 Q1
net ▲ 2.4 % since 2026 Q1
How much reaches your hands? → History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Minimum wage
1,153 €
2026-S2
± 0 % since 2026-S1
History →
Source: Eurostat
Avg. old-age pension
746 €
2026 Q2
± 0 % since 2026 Q1
History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Retirement age
65
2026
History →
Source: statute (Sodra)
GDP per capita — % of the EU average
86.8 %
2025
▼ 0.3 % since 2024

How Lithuania’s GDP per capita in purchasing power standards compares with the EU average, from 1995 to today. Eurostat.

History →
Source: Eurostat
Housing construction
12,339
2025
▼ 14.6 % since 2024

How much housing Lithuania finishes building each year: dwellings completed from 1995 and new residential buildings completed from 2000. Statistics Lithuania.

History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Government debt
36.3 bn €
2026 Q1
▲ 9.0 % since 2025 Q4
Source: Eurostat
Debt per capita
12,556 €
2026 Q1
▲ 9.0 % since 2025 Q4
Source: Eurostat · Statistics Lithuania
GDP
22.8 bn €
2026 Q2
▲ 12.3 % since 2026 Q1
Source: Eurostat
Unemployment
6.2 %
2026-07
± 0 pp since 2026-06
Source: Eurostat
Euribor 6M
2.71 %
2026-08
▲ 0.1 pp since 2026-07

Euribor is the rate at which European banks lend to each other. Mortgage payments depend on it: you pay ‘Euribor + bank margin’, and the 6-month Euribor resets every six months — your payment rises and falls with it.

Source: ECB
Median wage (October)
2,014 € gross
2025
▲ 8.3 % since 2024
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Earning minimum wage or less
~125 thousand (10.5 %)
2026-07
▲ 3.5 % since 2025-07

Insured persons who worked 30 days or more in the month, by their contributory income including bonuses; part-time work is counted, so this is not "paid less than the minimum".

Source: Sodra
At risk of poverty
~653 thousand (22.6 %)
2025
▲ 1.1 pp since 2024
Absolute poverty: 7.0 % (~202 thousand) (2025) · ▲ 1.2 pp since 2024
Source: Eurostat · Statistics Lithuania
Absolute poverty
~202 thousand (7.0 %)
2025
▲ 1.2 pp since 2024
Source: Statistics Lithuania

Society

Induced abortions
1,840
2025
▼ 23.0 % since 2024
History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Ethnic composition
Lithuanians 82.1 %
2026
History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Marriages and divorces
12,750
2025
▼ 1.1 % since 2024

How many marriages and how many divorces are registered in Lithuania each year, from 1945 to today. Statistics Lithuania.

History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Alcohol consumption
8.7 l
2025
▼ 1.1 % since 2024

How much legal alcohol a Lithuanian resident accounts for each year: litres of pure (100 %) alcohol from 2000, per resident and per resident aged 15 and over. Statistics Lithuania.

History →
Source: Statistics Lithuania
Drug offences
4,383
2024
▲ 15.0 % since 2023

How many offences involving narcotic or psychotropic substances the police record in Lithuania: the count and the rate per 100,000 residents from 2008. Eurostat data.

History →
Source: Eurostat
Pupils' results (PISA)
475 in mathematics
2022
mathematics: 475 · OECD average 472 · 24–25 of 81
reading: 472 · OECD average 476 · 32 of 81
science: 484 · OECD average 485 · 29–30 of 81
PISA runs every three years and the countries sitting it differ each time, so positions from different cycles are not comparable and none is offered here. The position is a RANGE because that is how it is published: the scores being ordered carry sampling error, and a single place would claim a precision the survey does not have. Science in 2015 is also not directly comparable with the cycles before it — that is when testing moved from paper to computer.
Source: National Education Agency (PISA)
Higher education (25–34)
60.8 %
2025
▲ 2.6 pp since 2024
3 of 27 in the EU · EU average 44.8 % · our calculation from Eurostat, 2025

Literacy: 99.8 % — last measured at the 2011 census, and not measured separately in Lithuania since; the 2021 census did not ask. The figure is the World Bank's republication of UNESCO's, and it is shown with its year rather than as a current number.

Sources: Eurostat · World Bank
R&D spending
1.04 %
2024
± 0 pp since 2023
20 of 27 in the EU · EU average 2.24 % · our calculation from Eurostat, 2024
Inventions and science
Source: Eurostat
ECHR cases against Lithuania
144 lost
2000–2026
82 won (no violation found) · 226 in total
Which cases? →
Source: ECHR (HUDOC)

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