Statistics Lithuania

Consumer confidence indicator improved by 7 percentage points in January 2015 against December 2014, however people still pessimistically assess the country's economy and their households' financial situation.

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.

In 2014, Lithuania's gross domestic product (GDP), estimated based on available statistical data and econometric models, amounted to EUR 36,270.8 million (LTL 125,236 million) at current prices. Compared to 2014, the real GDP change, seasonally and working day adjusted, stood at 2.9 percent, Statist...

In December 2014 only every third Lithuanian claimed that the situation in the country has been improving. Compared with November 2014, the number of optimists decreased by 6 percent. According to sociologist and lecturer of Vilnius University, Professor Romas Lazutka, the outburst of pessimism at t...

An increase in services prices in Lithuania last year was due to growing wages rather than to euro adoption, Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius said on Thursday.

Statistics Lithuania forecasts that monthly deflation measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is likely to be zero in January and amount to 0.0 percent, compared to December 2014.

Based on preliminary statistical data, 131 fewer couples divorced in 2014, compared with 2013. Meanwhile, 1,600 more new marriages were recorded.

The population of Lithuania shrank 0.7 percent over 2014, according to Statistics Lithuania, yet the figure represents an improvement since 2005.

A survey of industrial companies in Lithuania has showed that 42 percent of these companies in Lithuania received less investment than in the previous year.

In 2013, the total added value of inbound and domestic tourism in Lithuania accounted for LTL 3.2 billion (EUR 927 million) or 2.96 percent of the country's GDP.

Statistics Lithuania announced that in the third quarter of 2014, compared with the second quarter of 2014, the price of transportation via pipelines services increased the most, by 22.2 percent, followed by sea and coastal transport services, by 3.1 percent, security and investigation activities, b...

The United Nations confirmed 18 December as the International Migrants Day. On this day countries are encouraged to discuss migration problems.

The aggregate profit of Lithuania's manufacturing industry has grown from LTL 1.9 billion (EUR 0.55 billion) in the third quarter of 2013 to LTL 2.3 billion (EUR 0.67 billion) in the third quarter of 2014.

More than 619,000 Lithuanians live abroad, show statistical data published by the Lithuanian Statistics Department on Friday. One in five of the expatriates live in the United Kingdom.

Even though the Russian ban on food product import from the European Union is still in effect, export of Lithuanian origin goods to Russia increased by 11.3 percent in October.

Average monthly pre-tax earnings in the third quarter of this year grew in companies, institutions and organisations in all counties of Lithuania, Statistics Lithuania reports.

An average Lithuanian consumes around 25 kilograms of poultry annually, while the rate a decade ago stood at 12 kilograms. Global trends indicate that poultry consumption continues to grow steadily.

According to Statistics Lithuania, based on the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), the monthly inflation calculated for November and compared to October is likely to stand at 0 percent.

According to Statistics Lithuania, in 2013 compared with 2012, expenditure by business companies on environmental protection decreased 38.2 percent and stood at LTL 309.7 million (EUR 89.7 million), which accounted for 50 percent of all industrial enterprises' expenditure on environmental protection...

Some 30.8 percent of the Lithuanian population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2013, figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat shows.