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Lithuania

2,888,774

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+4962024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-17.5%from 3.5M
Life expectancy77.2 years2024
Fertility rate1.11births per woman · 2024
Urban population69.1%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Lithuania is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate6.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate13.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-6.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-24.62Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Lithuania look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 2.26M in 2050—21.0% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20242.86M
  2. 20502.26M
  3. 21001.21M
Median age in 205050.3years
Births in 205016.22Kduring the year
Deaths in 205037.51Kduring the year
Life expectancy80.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.78M
  2. 19703.14M
  3. 19803.41M
  4. 19903.7M
  5. 20003.5M
  6. 20103.1M
  7. 20202.81M
  8. 20252.89M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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