Population

Around 3,300 shelters in Lithuania could accommodate around 30% of the country’s population, says the Vilnius Fire and Rescue Board.

Last year, nearly 2,000 new residents were officially registered in Vilnius district. The latest data of the Centre of Registers indicates that 116,579 people live in Vilnius district.

Last year, every eighth Lithuanian resident faced material and social deprivation, every seventeenth – severe material and social deprivation, the State Data Agency said in a press release.

Lithuania's population has grown for the first time in 28 years due to migration trends, the country's statistics office said.

Almost 550 more people came to live in Lithuania in August then left but the majority of those who emigrated were Lithuanian citizens, the latest figures from the country's statistics office, Statistics Lithuania, showed on Monday.

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. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Kaunas, Lithuania's second city, is facing serious challenges as its population shrinks and young families move to the suburbs.

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...

Lithuania is facing grave demographic problems in the coming decades as its society continues to age at an alarming rate.

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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.

The latest UN population estimates and projections report states that Europe's population is ageing and shrinking, a trend which more than applies to Estonia as well, according to the National Broadcasting.

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 populatio...

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.