Litauen - Daten & Fakten
Länderstatistik
geographic coordinates: 54 41 N, 25 19 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
etymology: named after the Vilnia River, which flows into the Neris River at Vilnius; the river name derives from the Lithuanian word "vilnis" meaning "a surge"
citizenship by descent only: at least one parent must be a citizen of Lithuania
dual citizenship recognized: no
residency requirement for naturalization: 10 years
land: 62,680 sq km
water: 2,620 sq km
arable land: 34.9% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 0.5% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 9.4% (2018 est.)
forest: 34.6% (2018 est.)
other: 20.6% (2018 est.)
15-64 years: 63.11% (male 821,319/female 854,763)
65 years and over: 21.59% (2023 est.) (male 197,217/female 376,059)
major-language sample(s):
Pasaulio enciklopedija – naudingas bendrosios informacijos šaltinis. (Lithuanian)
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male: 70.6 years
female: 81.6 years
male: 40.6 years
female: 49 years
rate of urbanization: -0.12% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
male: 16 years
female: 17 years (2020)
8.49% (2020 est.)
6.26% (2019 est.)
42.66% of GDP (2019 est.)
39% of GDP (2018 est.)
note: official data; data cover general government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities, debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intragovernmental debt; intragovernmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment; debt instruments for the social funds are sold at public auctions
1.2% (2020 est.)
2.33% (2019 est.)
$41.721 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$42.323 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$36.414 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$39.419 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 29 (2020 est.)
percent of population: 87% (2021 est.)
paved: 72,297 km (2012) (includes 312 km of expressways)
unpaved: 11,869 km (2012)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 10 (2021 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 134 (2021 est.)
Lithuania-Belarus: as of January 2007, ground demarcation of the boundary with Belarus was complete and mapped with final ratification documents in preparation
Lithuania-Lativa: boundary demarcated with Latvia was completed in 1998
Lithuania-Russia:Lithuania and Russia committed to demarcating their boundary in 2006 in accordance with the land and maritime treaty ratified by Russia in May 2003 and by Lithuania in 1999; Lithuania operates a simplified transit regime for Russian nationals traveling from the Kaliningrad coastal exclave into Russia, while still conforming, as a EU member state having an external border with a non-EU member, to strict Schengen border rules; in January 2018, demarcation of the Lithuania-Russia border was completed