Statistics Lithuania

Compared to September, Lithuanian residents are slightly more optimistic about the outlook for the coming 12 months regarding changes in unemployment level, the country's economic situation and their household financial situation.

Statistics Lithuania informs that, based on provisional data, in September 2014, the turnover (VAT excluded) of retail trade enterprises amounted to LTL 2.5373 billion (EUR 734.9 million); against August, it decreased 6.4 percent at constant prices (seasonally adjusted - increased by 0.2 percent).

Pay gap between men and women in Lithuania was 12.5 percent in 2013. It increased 0.5 percentage points compared to the year before.

In 2013, international net migration remained negative in Lithuania as the number of emigrants exceeded that of immigrants by 16,800.

September 28 is taken as the day of the founding of Vilnius, the present capital of Lithuania. The founder of the city was Grand Duke Gediminas who ruled Lithuania in the 14th century and mentioned the city as his ducal seat in letters dated 1323. The legend says that Gediminas founded the city on t...

Based on provisional data, in August 2014, the turnover (VAT excluded) of retail trade enterprises (except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) amounted to LTL 2.6984 billion (EUR 782 million); against July, it decreased by 1.1 percent at constant prices (seasonally adjusted - by 0.1 percent), Statist...

The number of members of political parties in Lithuania has increased in 2013, while membership in trade unions has gone down, shows statistical data published on Friday.

Statistics Lithuania predicts that monthly inflation calculated based on the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) will stand at 0.4 percent in September, compared to August.

Statistics Lithuania informs that, over the first half of 2014, the number of tourists grew in accommodation establishments in every county. Compared with the first half of 2013, the number of tourists grew most in Utena County (77.8 percent), the least in Alytus County (3.2 percent).

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has emphasised that statistic data do not give grounds for concern over the effects of euro adoption on prices.

Statistics Lithuania reports that, based on non-final data from customs declarations, Intrastat reporting and VAT returns data, exports in July amounted to LTL 7.4 billion (EUR 2.14 billion), while imports to LTL 8.1 billion (EUR 2.34 billion).

Statistics Lithuania informs that, based on more comprehensive business, tax and price statistics, in the second quarter of 2014, GDP at current prices amounted to LTL 31.32 billion (EUR 9.07 billion).

Statistics Lithuania has revised up the annual GDP growth numbers from 3.1% to 3.3% for the second quarter of this year (3.1% seasonally and working-day adjusted). Domestic demand remained the main driver of growth, while net exports continued to contribute negatively.

British foreign direct investment (FDI) into Lithuania has nearly doubled in three years ahead of the country's entry into the eurozone.

Some 610,000 people in Lithuania, or 20.6 percent of the population, lived below the poverty risk line last year, 2 percentage points more compared with 2012, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country's statistics office.

According to the provisional data of Statistics Lithuania, in the second quarter of 2014, accommodation establishments accommodated 9.5 percent more guests than in the same period in 2013 and received 637.7 thousand tourists.

17,600 young people emigrated from Lithuania last year, and 8,800 returned, according to figures from Statistics Lithuania.

Statistics Lithuania informs that in the second quarter of 2014, against the second quarter of 2013, the volume of construction work carried out increased by 16.8 percent and amounted to LTL 2.2 billion (EUR 637 million).

Statistics Lithuania announced that in July 2014, the average annual inflation calculated based on the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), which is methodologically harmonised with those of other EU member states, stood at 0.4 percent.

Statistics Lithuania informs that, at the beginning of 2014, the estimated number of women in Lithuania was 1,587.5 thousand, that of men, 1,356 thousand. Women outnumbered men by 231.5 thousand.