Recently published United Nations (UN) statistics about population changes in Lithuania have really put the country on pins and needles. Headlines in the press were screaming that we are a country going extinct at the […]
The affluent EU member states have seen population increases over the past decade and this has led to more rapid economic development among them. The less well-off member states experienced the opposite processes – a […]
Lithuania’s cabinet of ministers has endorsed a plan to address massive emigration which has been a drain on the country’s population and labour force.
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Lithuania has launched a campaign to draw attention to the problems of an ageing population and to the need for initiatives to prolong the working life of Lithuanian workers. “Our country’s competitiveness in the coming […]
Over the last 25 years, the population of Lithuania has fallen from 3.7 million to 2.9 million, shrinking by over 1% annually. While predictions of the eventual extinction of the Lithuanian people are premature, the trends are a real cause for concern and will present huge challenges for the country over the coming half-century. […]
Lithuania is facing grave demographic problems in the coming decades as its society continues to age at an alarming rate. […]
Demographics will soon be the biggest problem facing Lithuanian society and industry, leading economists have warned, urging Lithuanian politicians to address the massive emigration that has been draining the Lithuanian population for over a decade now. […]
Over the last year, Lithuania’s population has shrunk by 33,000 people, Statistics Lithuania says. It is the size of a mid-sized town. […]
The Lithuanian population has lost 1.1% or 32,700 people over the last year, preliminary estimates from Statistics Lithuania suggest. The primary reason for the negative growth is emigration. […]
Will Lithuania ever again be a nation of 3.5 million? This target, championed by the leaders of six political parties, is to be achieved by 2025. Some experts say it reeks of utopianism, while others point to historic precedents in other countries. […]
On 1 January 2015, the population of the European Union was estimated at 508.2 million, compared with 506.9 million on 1 January 2014. During the year 2014, 5.1 million babies were born in the EU, while 4.9 million persons died, meaning that the EU recorded a positive natural change of its population of 0.2 million, double that of 2013. The remainder of the change is driven mainly by net migration, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union said. […]
The European Commission’s forecast of a dramatic decline in Lithuania’s population is based on wrong and too short historical data, Swedbank Lithuania’s chief economist said on Wednesday. […]
The Lithuanian population is forecast to decline at the fastest rate in the European Union to less than two million people by 2060, the European Commission said in a report published on Tuesday. […]
According to early estimates of Statistics Lithuania, at the end of 2014 the number of inhabitants in Lithuania totalled 2.92 million, it decreased by 21,600 or 0.7 percent, compared to late 2013. […]
The population of Lithuania shrank 0.7 percent over 2014, according to Statistics Lithuania, yet the figure represents an improvement since 2005. […]
As individual economy sectors of Lithuania have started feeling shortages of labour, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he is in favour of holding discussions on targeted labour immigration. […]
Statistics Lithuania informs that, at the beginning of 2014, the estimated number of women in Lithuania was 1,587.5 thousand, that of men, 1,356 thousand. Women outnumbered men by 231.5 thousand. […]
Statistics Lithuania informs that, at the beginning of 2014, the estimated population of Lithuania stood at 2943.5 thousand, i.e., 28.4 thousand (1 percent) below what it was at the beginning of 2013. In 2005-2013, the population declined by 411.7 thousand, or 12.3 percent. […]
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