Economy
Passenger numbers up 17% at Lithuania’s airports
The number of passengers flying out of Lithuania’s airports rose by nearly 17% in January according to the latest figures from Statistics Lithuania. […]
Statistics Lithuania
Society
CORPORATE
Lithuanian elite flock to Neringa with mixed effects
Neringa, the municipality located on Lithuania’s picturesque Curonian Spit, has become a Mecca for the country’s rich and famous. However, second home owners, who spend most of the year in Vilnius and other major cities, are a mixed blessing for the beautiful region. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuania retail sales growth slows in December
Lithuania’s retail sales growth slowed for the fourth month in a row in December, according to the latest figures from Statistics Lithuania. […]
Society
Population of Lithuania shrank by 33k last year
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. […]
Economy
Lithuanians more optimistic about future prospects, economy
Lithuanians are more optimistic about their country and their financial prospects, but expect to save less in the coming year, according to the latest survey from Statistics Lithuania. […]
Defence
Conscription boosted emigration, Lithuanian PM says
Military conscription, which was reinstated in Lithuania last year, was one of the reasons behind a hike in emigration, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes. […]
Society
Lithuanian population shrank 1.1% last year
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. […]
Society
Will Lithuania ever be a nation of 3.5 million again?
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. […]
Economy
Economy
Lithuanian export downturn predicted by producers and exporters
In the upcoming months, Lithuania’s producers and exporters predict a decrease in Lithuanian industrial exports. According to a poll distributed to the heads of industrial companies by Statistics Lithuania, 14 percent of businesses predict a decrease while 17 percent predict an increase (a month ago, these percentages were 12 and 31 percent, respectively). […]
Economy
Euro adoption helped Lithuanians save €40m
Lithuanian consumers and businesses saved some €40 million due to lower interest rates after the adoption of the euro a year ago, economists at the Bank of Lithuania say. Costs were also cut on currency exchange and due to lower rates on international money transfers. […]
Economy
Big cities and coastal resorts top entrepreneur rankings
Entrepreneurial activity is booming in Lithuania’s three biggest cities – Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda – and the coastal resorts of Neringa and Palanga, according to the 2015 Entrepreneurship Map from the Lithuanian Central Credit Union (LCKU). […]
Society
Over 100,000 emigrants have returned to Lithuania over the past decade
On International Migrants Day (18 December), Statistics Lithuania announced that, over the last decade, 126,000 new residents immigrated into Lithuania while 438,500 emigrated. From 2005 to 2014, the percentage of emigrants of ages 20-39 grew from 51.9 to 59.2 percent. In 2014, as many as 82 percent of working-age people had not worked for a year or longer before leaving the country. […]
Economy
Prices continue to fall in December
Lithuania’s average monthly inflation, calculated based on the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), is projected to be negative and stand at minus 0.2%, compared with prices recorded in November. […]
Economy
Lithuanian companies invest more in environment protection
Statistics Lithuania has released its annual publication Natural Resources and Environmental Protection for 2014. […]
Defence
Military conscription pushed up emigration from Lithuania, PM says
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that youth emigration from the country could have been pushed up by the reinstalled compulsory military service. […]
Economy
Lithuanian economy beginning to recover, Danske Bank says
The latest data provided by Statistics Lithuania has showed that the country’s economy grew by 1.8 percent in the third quarter of 2015. This is the best result achieved this year, demonstrating that Lithuania’s economy is gradually recovering from the lowest growth period since the 2008-2009 crisis. […]
Politics
Lithuanian MP suggests indexing minimum wage to average pay
New proposed amendments to the Labour Code of Lithuania suggest that the minimum monthly wage should not be lower than half of the previous year’s average wage, which is estimated and announced by Statistics Lithuania. […]
Society
Share of older people on the rise in Lithuania
Statistics Lithuania has published demographic data on the occasion of the Day of Older Persons. It has transpired that the number of older people is on the rise in the country. […]