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Lithuanian business sentiment improved in March as the confidence indicator rose to -1 from -5 in February, according to the Lithuanian Statistics Department‘s business trends and expectations survey data for March.

The annual inflation rate in Lithuania rose to 0.7% in January of this year, according to the latest figures from Eurostat.

The average Lithuanian’s monthly pay packet grew by 5.9% in the final quarter of 2015, with a 4.6% rise in the public sector but a larger 6.7% rise in wages in the private sector.

The Ministry of Education is proposing to increase state financed positions at universities for information technology studies by 50% in response to increasing demand for skilled IT professionals in Lithuania's labour market.

Lithuania's retail sales growth slowed for the fourth month in a row in December, according to the latest figures from Statistics Lithuania.

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.

This year, Lithuania has been listed among three countries in the region that are most favourable to business in terms of the simplicity of procedures for issuing documents that permit construction.

Statistics indicate that road and railway traffic has become considerably safer in the first half of 2015 in Lithuania.

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.

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More people visited Lithuanian museums and theatres in 2014, as compared to earlier years, while the number people going to libraries and cinema theatres is virtually unchanged, the Statistics Department said on Friday.

Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius believes that services prices have been rising due to people's growing incomes rather than to euro adoption.

According to preliminary data of Statistics Lithuania, in the fourth quarter of 2014, all types of transport carried 26.6 million tonnes of goods, or by 0.8 percent more than in the fourth quarter of 2013.

At 9.84 billion kilowatt hours (kWh), or 2.1 percent more than in 2013, electricity consumption in 2014 has been the highest since 2009.

The war on Ukraine and the increasingly frequent reports about the possibility of Russian aggression in the Baltic states has not led to mass purchase of firearms by Lithuanians, the growth remains stable and in accordance to the tendencies of the past years, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.

The number of marriages registered in Lithuania in 2014 went up by 1,500 from the year before, with more couples deciding to wed outside civil registry offices, shows statistics published by the Justice Ministry on the eve of Valentine's Day.

Compared to December 2014, the number of bankruptcies in January increased by a third, while the number of distraints decreased by a third.

In 2014, Lithuania harvested a record amount of grain, over 5 million tonnes.

In 2014, annual deflation was running at 0.3 percent in Lithuania.

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.