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).
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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...
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.
Statistics Lithuania has released its annual publication Natural Resources and Environmental Protection for 2014.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that youth emigration from the country could have been pushed up by the reinstalled compulsory military service.
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...
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.
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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed in a recent interview with US media that only 1,4 million people live in Lithuania, which is half of the Baltic country's actual population.
Lithuanian political parties received EUR 8.4 million in funds last year, according to the country's statistics department, Statistics Lithuania.
To completely refocus on the West or, given accrued expertise and familiarity with the neighbours’ mentality, spend additional resources on the East? Entrepreneurs in many industries ask these questions while analyzing economic and financial indices as well as public moods in neighbouring countries....
Some 560,000 people in Lithuania, or 19.1 percent of the country’s population, were below the poverty risk line last year, down by 1.5 percentage points compared with 2013, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country's statistics office.
Statistics Lithuania reports that, according to the Labour Force Survey data, in the second quarter of 2015, the unemployment rate stood at 9.4 percent.
Statistics Lithuania reports that, based on non-final data obtained from customs declarations, Intrastat reporting and VAT returns data, Lithuania's exports in June 2015 amounted to EUR 2 billion, imports - EUR 2.3 billion.
Statistics Lithuania reports that in June, the volume of Lithuania's exports decreased by 3.6 percent on a year-on-year basis. But the decrease was influenced by a significant fall of re-exports, since exports of Lithuanian-made goods grew by 3.7 percent.
DNB Bank's chief economist for the Baltic states Jekaterina Rojaka says that shock therapy will be for the better of Lithuania's economy.
In June 2015 industrial production totalled EUR 1.7 billion at current prices and, compared to May, grew by 4.4 percent at constant prices, seasonally and working day adjusted - by 0.8 percent, Statistics Lithuania reports.
Statistics Lithuania has carried out a survey on the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in Lithuanian companies. It has shown that all production and services companies with 10 and more employees were using computers and broadband internet. 64.5 percent of companies were using mo...
In June, the average retail prices of 44 of the 100 main homogeneous consumer goods and services monitored by Statistics Lithuania increased. Prices of 39 goods and services decreased while 17 remained the same.
Statistics Lithuania reports that, based on non-final data obtained from customs declarations, Intrastat reporting and VAT returns data, exports in May 2015 amounted to EUR 2 billion, imports - EUR 2.2 billion.
