Over the first half of this year, Lithuanians have received remittances from their expat friends or family members through Lietuvos Paštas (Post of Lithuania) from 128 countries. More than €1 million has reached Lithuania from […]
Last year, the number of drinking water and sewage disposal service users in Lithuania decreased by 6,262, Lithuanian Water Suppliers Association announces. “As you know, last year 44,500 people emigrated from Lithuania. This, I believe, […]
New data released by Statistics Lithuania show that even more people emigrated from the country over the first half of this year than in January-June 2015. Demographers say the figures are alarming, but may be inflated due to Brexit.
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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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In a striking example of the demographic problems facing Lithuania’s small villages, a woman in Viešvilė is giving away an apartment she owns for free after failing to find any buyers.
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Lithuanian institutions’ anti-emigration policies have had little effect – statistics indicate that last year, more people left Lithuania than during the year before.
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Lithuania must develop a programme to encourage expatriates to return home, Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė believes. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius presented a report on the government’s achievements in 2015 to the Lithuanian parliament on Thursday but analysts were highly critical. Analysts said that the report was less about reviewing the government’s […]
As Lithuania’s regions face a growing emigration crisis, some have begun calling for measures to deal with the aging apartment buildings that have been left behind as communities shrink. […]
Giedrė Kosė’s innovative business idea, an app called Anchovy that converts your words into colors, a reality. It is also a fashion and design brand that uses the app to create colourful gradients and make them into real design objects. […]
Shrinking pensions, emigration and a low birth rate are all related problems, according to Conservative Rimantas Jonas Dagys, a member of a Parliamentary Social Affairs and Labour Committee, who is proposing to link pensions to […]
Terrorist attacks or a sense of insecurity is not an issue that would encourage Lithuanian emigrants to return to Lithuania, said economist Gitanas Nausėda, adding that return migration policy should not be based on such ideas. […]
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. […]
Emigration from Lithuania last year grew over 20% against 2014, according to the country’s statistics office. Meanwhile the number of arrivals dropped by a tenth. […]
On Sunday, the Lithuanian St. Casimir Parish festival began in East London began with a Holy Mass at Casimir Church with Bishop Nicholas Hudson from the Diocese of Westminster. On a sunny afternoon, the church was so full with Lithuanians that people were even listening from the street outside. “Today we prayed together for Lithuanians of the world and for each other” said Petras Tverijonas,who has served as the Priest of the Roman Catholic Church of St Casimir for seventeen years. […]
With salaries ten times higher salaries than in Lithuania, free accommodation, a personal driver and schools arranged for children, Lithuanian doctors are increasingly being lured to Gulf States like the United Arab Emirates (UAE). […]
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. […]
Military conscription, which was reinstated in Lithuania last year, was one of the reasons behind a hike in emigration, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes. […]
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. […]
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