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Lithuania population

Lithuania population now

2,791,676

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 2.7–2.9 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 2,854,099

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 2.79735 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 2.7–2.9 million
Median age: 43.6
Aged 65+: 21.3%

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male female projection · one cell = 500 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

LTU · 1950–2100 · in brief

Lithuania in numbers

2,854,099 people lived in Lithuania in mid-2023: 0.04% of the world's people, and the 141st-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 1.2 times its 1950 population of 2.4 million.

Its population peaked in 1991 at 3.7 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 1.2 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 469 thousand to 3.3 million.

Since 1994, more people have died here each year than have been born, and the UN's projection has that holding every year to 2100.

The median age was 26.1 in 1950 and 43.1 in 2023; the projection has 56.4 in 2100. 19.9% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 39.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 1990 at 2.5 million; in 2023 it was 1.9 million.

By size it is the 141st country in 2023; the projection puts it 148th in 2050 and 155th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Puerto Rico in 2073. It is overtaken by Jamaica in 2025, the Gambia in 2026 and Gabon in 2028.

Population, mid-2023: 2,854,099
Rank by population, 2023: 141 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.04%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.32% · +37,179 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 46
Land area, 2023: 62,600 km²
Births, 2023: 21,434
Deaths, 2023: 40,940
Net migration, 2023: +44,935
Children per woman, 2023: 1.20
Median age, 2023: 43.1 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 76.0 years
In a city, 2025: 30 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 2,432,996
Projected, mid-2050: 2,258,774
Projected, mid-2100: 1,208,675

LTU · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Lithuania, 1950–2100

Lithuania: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	2,420,640		53,541	28,829	2.71	66.1
1951	estimate	2,445,351		54,734	27,798	2.70	66.2
1952	estimate	2,472,287		55,245	26,996	2.66	66.2
1953	estimate	2,500,534		55,529	26,360	2.61	66.3
1954	estimate	2,529,713		55,891	25,899	2.58	66.5
1955	estimate	2,559,693		56,779	25,548	2.57	66.6
1956	estimate	2,590,930		58,129	25,320	2.58	66.8
1957	estimate	2,623,739		59,994	23,940	2.63	67.7
1958	estimate	2,659,783		61,277	22,977	2.65	68.6
1959	estimate	2,698,089		61,479	22,127	2.63	69.4
1960	estimate	2,747,259		62,765	21,429	2.62	70.3
1961	estimate	2,790,930		63,005	22,217	2.61	70.5
1962	estimate	2,834,267		59,820	24,683	2.47	69.4
1963	estimate	2,872,306		57,047	22,949	2.35	70.6
1964	estimate	2,909,838		55,882	21,665	2.30	71.9
1965	estimate	2,947,870		53,864	23,267	2.23	71.7
1966	estimate	2,982,655		54,236	23,640	2.27	71.9
1967	estimate	3,018,059		53,717	24,331	2.27	72.0
1968	estimate	3,052,697		54,149	25,527	2.31	71.6
1969	estimate	3,087,834		54,012	27,028	2.33	71.2
1970	estimate	3,119,005		55,140	27,933	2.40	71.1
1971	estimate	3,152,739		55,585	26,770	2.41	72.0
1972	estimate	3,188,679		54,233	28,969	2.35	71.3
1973	estimate	3,221,132		51,679	28,821	2.22	71.6
1974	estimate	3,251,312		51,634	29,299	2.21	71.5
1975	estimate	3,281,412		51,459	30,983	2.17	71.1
1976	estimate	3,310,055		51,967	31,524	2.17	71.2
1977	estimate	3,339,081		51,928	32,553	2.13	71.1
1978	estimate	3,367,414		51,658	33,675	2.08	70.8
1979	estimate	3,392,734		51,647	34,572	2.04	70.7
1980	estimate	3,416,738		51,567	35,620	2.00	70.7
1981	estimate	3,440,100		52,083	35,409	1.99	70.7
1982	estimate	3,464,519		52,965	35,000	1.98	71.1
1983	estimate	3,490,650		57,424	36,444	2.12	71.0
1984	estimate	3,520,213		57,607	38,620	2.09	70.5
1985	estimate	3,548,034		58,537	39,245	2.10	70.7
1986	estimate	3,576,743		59,758	35,858	2.13	72.4
1987	estimate	3,610,818		59,328	37,049	2.11	72.2
1988	estimate	3,643,916		56,612	37,802	2.01	72.0
1989	estimate	3,701,377		55,723	39,284	1.99	71.6
1990	estimate	3,690,833		56,980	39,786	2.03	71.4
1991	estimate	3,699,192		56,217	41,038	2.01	70.5
1992	estimate	3,703,623		54,643	41,627	1.97	70.3
1993	estimate	3,691,466		47,691	46,278	1.74	68.9
1994	estimate	3,668,927		42,617	46,576	1.58	68.5
1995	estimate	3,640,855		41,371	45,496	1.55	69.0
1996	estimate	3,613,221		39,274	43,064	1.50	70.2
1997	estimate	3,586,202		38,027	41,283	1.47	71.0
1998	estimate	3,560,616		37,206	40,899	1.46	71.3
1999	estimate	3,534,925		36,518	40,029	1.46	71.7
2000	estimate	3,510,878		34,162	39,041	1.38	72.1
2001	estimate	3,489,926		31,253	40,371	1.28	71.7
2002	estimate	3,456,082		29,603	41,035	1.23	71.8
2003	estimate	3,432,019		30,107	40,882	1.26	72.1
2004	estimate	3,398,537		30,001	41,374	1.27	72.0
2005	estimate	3,354,861		29,937	43,771	1.29	71.3
2006	estimate	3,289,665		29,726	44,708	1.32	71.0
2007	estimate	3,249,951		30,163	45,502	1.36	70.7
2008	estimate	3,212,797		31,641	43,794	1.44	71.7
2009	estimate	3,184,164		32,444	42,073	1.50	72.8
2010	estimate	3,142,344		31,778	42,142	1.50	73.2
2011	estimate	3,053,095		30,720	41,115	1.55	73.6
2012	estimate	3,004,188		30,653	40,982	1.59	74.0
2013	estimate	2,972,471		30,016	41,469	1.58	74.0
2014	estimate	2,944,250		30,516	40,288	1.63	74.6
2015	estimate	2,922,086		31,732	41,815	1.71	74.5
2016	estimate	2,889,442		31,113	41,171	1.69	74.8
2017	estimate	2,848,777		29,217	40,116	1.63	75.7
2018	estimate	2,809,848		28,319	39,599	1.64	75.9
2019	estimate	2,795,108		27,513	38,285	1.61	76.4
2020	estimate	2,795,008		25,191	43,553	1.49	75.1
2021	estimate	2,796,521		22,978	46,703	1.36	74.3
2022	estimate	2,792,454		21,556	44,732	1.27	74.7
2023	estimate	2,841,385		21,434	40,940	1.20	76.0
2024	estimate	2,866,813		22,186	40,207	1.21	76.2
2025	projection	2,851,406	2.8–2.9 million	22,099	40,004	1.22	76.3
2026	projection	2,808,883	2.8–2.9 million	21,457	39,704	1.22	76.5
2027	projection	2,785,793	2.7–2.9 million	21,128	39,462	1.23	76.6
2028	projection	2,762,658	2.6–2.9 million	20,768	39,231	1.24	76.8
2029	projection	2,739,681	2.6–2.9 million	20,339	38,993	1.24	76.9
2030	projection	2,717,405	2.6–2.9 million	19,969	38,777	1.25	77.1
2031	projection	2,695,311	2.5–2.9 million	19,594	38,543	1.25	77.3
2032	projection	2,673,628	2.5–2.9 million	19,247	38,355	1.26	77.4
2033	projection	2,651,984	2.4–3.0 million	18,940	38,184	1.27	77.5
2034	projection	2,630,321	2.4–3.0 million	18,623	38,014	1.28	77.7
2035	projection	2,608,224	2.3–3.0 million	18,346	37,891	1.28	77.9
2036	projection	2,586,559	2.3–3.0 million	18,146	37,787	1.29	78.0
2037	projection	2,564,443	2.3–3.0 million	17,952	37,725	1.29	78.2
2038	projection	2,541,750	2.2–3.1 million	17,792	37,689	1.30	78.3
2039	projection	2,519,174	2.2–3.1 million	17,696	37,670	1.30	78.5
2040	projection	2,495,969	2.1–3.1 million	17,620	37,678	1.31	78.7
2041	projection	2,473,701	2.1–3.1 million	17,574	37,692	1.31	78.8
2042	projection	2,451,211	2.1–3.1 million	17,535	37,737	1.32	79.0
2043	projection	2,428,452	2.0–3.2 million	17,496	37,766	1.32	79.1
2044	projection	2,405,428	2.0–3.2 million	17,448	37,792	1.33	79.3
2045	projection	2,383,238	2.0–3.2 million	17,360	37,796	1.33	79.4
2046	projection	2,361,035	1.9–3.2 million	17,220	37,785	1.34	79.6
2047	projection	2,338,780	1.9–3.2 million	17,033	37,779	1.34	79.8
2048	projection	2,315,703	1.8–3.2 million	16,787	37,766	1.34	79.9
2049	projection	2,293,008	1.8–3.3 million	16,530	37,664	1.35	80.0
2050	projection	2,270,467	1.8–3.3 million	16,216	37,511	1.35	80.2
2051	projection	2,247,081	1.7–3.3 million	15,875	37,355	1.36	80.3
2052	projection	2,223,501	1.7–3.2 million	15,500	37,162	1.37	80.5
2053	projection	2,199,606	1.7–3.3 million	15,064	36,934	1.37	80.7
2054	projection	2,176,045	1.6–3.3 million	14,656	36,662	1.37	80.8
2055	projection	2,151,973	1.6–3.3 million	14,236	36,364	1.37	80.9
2056	projection	2,127,545	1.6–3.3 million	13,872	36,031	1.38	81.1
2057	projection	2,103,238	1.5–3.3 million	13,510	35,653	1.38	81.2
2058	projection	2,078,998	1.5–3.3 million	13,192	35,292	1.38	81.4
2059	projection	2,054,848	1.4–3.3 million	12,905	34,915	1.39	81.5
2060	projection	2,030,784	1.4–3.3 million	12,636	34,524	1.39	81.7
2061	projection	2,006,904	1.4–3.3 million	12,393	34,149	1.39	81.8
2062	projection	1,983,593	1.3–3.3 million	12,208	33,785	1.40	82.0
2063	projection	1,960,343	1.3–3.3 million	12,024	33,458	1.40	82.1
2064	projection	1,937,825	1.3–3.3 million	11,853	33,137	1.40	82.2
2065	projection	1,915,279	1.2–3.3 million	11,704	32,807	1.40	82.4
2066	projection	1,892,422	1.2–3.3 million	11,575	32,488	1.40	82.5
2067	projection	1,869,928	1.2–3.4 million	11,471	32,186	1.41	82.7
2068	projection	1,847,695	1.2–3.4 million	11,353	31,948	1.41	82.8
2069	projection	1,825,718	1.1–3.4 million	11,269	31,732	1.41	82.9
2070	projection	1,803,638	1.1–3.4 million	11,174	31,531	1.41	83.1
2071	projection	1,782,130	1.1–3.4 million	11,100	31,347	1.41	83.2
2072	projection	1,760,762	1.1–3.4 million	11,030	31,219	1.41	83.3
2073	projection	1,739,637	1.0–3.4 million	10,962	31,065	1.41	83.5
2074	projection	1,718,537	1.0–3.4 million	10,898	30,945	1.42	83.6
2075	projection	1,697,014	1.0–3.4 million	10,824	30,809	1.42	83.7
2076	projection	1,675,631	0.9–3.4 million	10,726	30,712	1.42	83.9
2077	projection	1,654,279	0.9–3.4 million	10,619	30,600	1.42	84.0
2078	projection	1,633,022	0.9–3.4 million	10,525	30,489	1.42	84.1
2079	projection	1,611,753	0.9–3.4 million	10,394	30,339	1.43	84.2
2080	projection	1,590,589	0.8–3.4 million	10,257	30,157	1.43	84.4
2081	projection	1,569,384	0.8–3.4 million	10,113	29,922	1.43	84.5
2082	projection	1,548,196	0.8–3.5 million	9,936	29,676	1.43	84.6
2083	projection	1,527,135	0.8–3.4 million	9,751	29,369	1.43	84.7
2084	projection	1,506,333	0.8–3.4 million	9,574	29,025	1.44	84.9
2085	projection	1,485,816	0.7–3.4 million	9,389	28,651	1.44	85.0
2086	projection	1,465,330	0.7–3.4 million	9,195	28,235	1.44	85.1
2087	projection	1,445,501	0.7–3.4 million	9,017	27,760	1.44	85.2
2088	projection	1,425,746	0.7–3.4 million	8,829	27,264	1.44	85.3
2089	projection	1,406,122	0.6–3.4 million	8,635	26,779	1.44	85.5
2090	projection	1,387,035	0.6–3.4 million	8,457	26,295	1.44	85.6
2091	projection	1,368,301	0.6–3.4 million	8,308	25,803	1.44	85.7
2092	projection	1,349,922	0.6–3.4 million	8,163	25,302	1.44	85.8
2093	projection	1,331,903	0.6–3.4 million	8,037	24,812	1.45	85.9
2094	projection	1,314,471	0.6–3.4 million	7,914	24,361	1.45	86.1
2095	projection	1,297,560	0.5–3.4 million	7,807	23,929	1.45	86.2
2096	projection	1,280,601	0.5–3.4 million	7,693	23,543	1.45	86.3
2097	projection	1,264,213	0.5–3.4 million	7,619	23,201	1.45	86.4
2098	projection	1,248,152	0.5–3.4 million	7,550	22,862	1.45	86.5
2099	projection	1,232,284	0.5–3.3 million	7,480	22,578	1.45	86.6
2100	projection	1,216,525	0.5–3.3 million	7,407	22,314	1.45	86.8

Show the numbers: Lithuania, mid-2026, by single year of age

Lithuania: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	10,964	10,395
1	11,029	10,440
2	11,078	10,502
3	11,374	10,814
4	12,058	11,482
5	13,012	12,251
6	14,077	13,217
7	14,692	14,026
8	15,029	14,306
9	15,630	14,613
10	15,999	15,003
11	15,602	14,771
12	14,962	14,328
13	14,822	14,253
14	14,952	14,138
15	14,920	14,131
16	15,000	14,333
17	14,768	14,096
18	14,062	13,485
19	13,699	13,296
20	13,834	13,471
21	14,080	13,700
22	14,452	13,994
23	14,736	14,150
24	15,044	14,544
25	16,032	15,452
26	17,218	16,438
27	17,883	16,828
28	18,126	16,925
29	18,424	17,292
30	19,003	17,622
31	19,373	17,770
32	20,270	18,459
33	21,886	19,891
34	22,822	20,460
35	22,750	20,059
36	21,996	19,386
37	21,518	18,819
38	21,760	19,113
39	21,971	19,285
40	21,316	18,838
41	20,514	18,347
42	20,230	18,007
43	19,257	17,291
44	18,321	16,510
45	18,069	16,346
46	17,846	16,545
47	17,776	16,920
48	17,892	17,299
49	18,108	17,740
50	18,044	18,133
51	17,958	18,533
52	18,180	18,846
53	18,586	19,459
54	19,172	20,348
55	19,218	20,688
56	18,740	20,552
57	18,371	20,560
58	17,940	20,743
59	17,708	20,771
60	17,614	20,634
61	17,641	20,900
62	17,664	21,453
63	17,682	22,122
64	17,904	23,118
65	17,713	23,504
66	16,959	23,196
67	16,098	22,662
68	14,879	21,488
69	13,172	19,868
70	11,992	18,800
71	11,180	17,984
72	10,149	16,812
73	9,508	16,481
74	9,117	16,556
75	8,606	16,192
76	8,208	16,132
77	7,392	15,224
78	6,260	13,426
79	5,482	12,088
80	5,153	11,884
81	4,624	11,110
82	4,292	10,657
83	4,380	11,366
84	4,102	10,970
85	3,638	9,884
86	3,200	8,876
87	2,790	8,002
88	2,332	7,104
89	1,937	6,172
90	1,572	5,138
91	1,195	4,051
92	924	3,210
93	704	2,569
94	502	1,917
95	360	1,382
96	244	968
97	157	664
98	102	437
99	60	262
100+	77	357

LTU · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Lithuania, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

LTU · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Lithuania

Lithuania had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 1990: 2,460,200 people aged 15–64, against 1,862,490 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

23 children

30 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 17 years: 1984–1987 and 2002–2014.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

LTU · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Lithuania, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Lithuania gains 27,390 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 5,086 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 500 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 72,100 (2022); its biggest loss, 78,887 (2010).

In 2024, 175,194 people living in Lithuania had been born in another country, 6 of every 100 people there, against 10 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

LTU · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Lithuania

Of every 100 babies born in Lithuania in 2023, 2 had a mother under 20, 79 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 19 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 4 under 20 and 17 aged 35 or older.

1950
4 · 79 · 17

2023
2 · 79 · 19

2050 · projected
1 · 72 · 27

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 21,434
Average age when women have a baby: 30.3 years; 29.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 6; 16 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Lithuania by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	2	4	14	2	1	0
15–19	2,055	3,001	3,040	393	180	94
20–24	16,265	18,576	11,258	2,500	1,330	733
25–29	16,918	14,800	10,492	6,761	4,034	2,074
30–34	9,377	8,778	6,118	7,617	6,360	2,617
35–39	6,392	4,780	2,611	3,447	3,431	1,464
40–44	2,309	1,398	609	656	782	374
45–49	214	122	20	56	95	50
50–54	9	0	0	2	3	1
All babies	53,541	51,459	34,162	21,434	16,216	7,407

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

LTU · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Lithuania

Of the 74.1 years a baby born in Lithuania in 2021 could expect, about 64.2 would be lived in full health (95% range 63.5–65.0). That leaves 9.9 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

67.0 in full health, 11.6 not: 78.6 years

Men

61.4 in full health, 8.2 not: 69.6 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 67.0 healthy years of 78.6. Men: 61.4 of 69.6. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 66.2.

LTU · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Lithuania

At the end of 2025, Lithuania was hosting 54,537 people who had crossed a border into it, about 19 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad54,537
Lithuania nationals abroad179

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 1,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Lithuania living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 324 people asked for asylum in Lithuania for the first time; 76 people from Lithuania asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

LTU · of every 100 people

How people live in Lithuania

Of every 100 people in Lithuania in 2025, 30 lived in a city, 29 in a town or suburb and 41 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 10.8 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

LTU · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Lithuania went in school

Almost every adult in Lithuania went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 85 finished upper secondary or went further.

1 some primary 4 finished primary 10 finished lower secondary 28 finished upper secondary 57 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; nor are the ones who finished upper secondary.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

LTU · cities · 2025

Cities in Lithuania

Lithuania had 5 cities in 2025, home to 858,793 people. The largest, Vilnius, holds 12 of every 100 people in Lithuania.

Vilnius337,871
Kaunas264,162
Klaipėda115,725
Panevėžys81,901
Šiauliai59,134

How to read this: one bar for each of the 5 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Lithuania are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.