Lithuania

EuropeCapital city: VilniusCapital metro: VilniusPresident: Gitanas NausėdaPrime Minister: Mindaugas Sinkevičius
2026 population
2.9M
Rank #143 globally
Area
65k km² (25k sq mi)
Metros tracked
15
85% of population in metros
Composite score
12.0
Rank #90 globally

population: Monthly national estimate (1 Jul 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 15 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography15 metros

Lithuania metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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15 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 15 tracked metros
15 metros
🗂️ Counties

10 entries listed under Lithuania. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

10 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Lithuanian
Currency
Euro (€)
Government
Parliamentary republic
Legislature
Seimas
Demonym
Lithuanian
Time zones
UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+370
Internet TLD
.lt
ISO 3166
LT
Established
1990
Highest point
Aukštojas Hill (294 m (965 ft))
National anthem
Tautiška giesmė

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Human Dev. Index
#38 / 191
0.895
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#78 / 193
$95.2B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#38 / 193
$33.0k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#36 / 190
$56.8k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#39 / 192
$30.5k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#67 / 194
77.2 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
42.1 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#79 / 194
69%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.0%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#138 / 193
46/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#83 / 193
6.1%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#30 / 175
0.92
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#91 / 166
36.0
World Bank · 2023
Internet users
#63 / 193
89%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#113 / 185
3.8%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#130 / 192
4.4 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#36 / 186
78%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations4 full memberships

Security

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History42 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Other

Mindaugas Sinkevičius✦ Current

2026Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: in office

Inga Ruginienė

20252026

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 10m 22dLSDP

Gintautas Paluckas

20242025

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2024-2025 (resigned amid scandal)LSDP

Ingrida Šimonytė

20202024

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2020-2024Homeland Union (TS-LKD)

Gitanas Nausėda✦ Current

2019Present

President

Tenure: 2019-presentIndependent

Saulius Skvernelis

20162020

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2016-2020LVŽS (independent)

Algirdas Butkevičius

20122016

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2012-2016LSDP

Dalia Grybauskaitė

20092019

President

Tenure: 2009-2019Independent

Andrius Kubilius

20082012

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2008-2012 (2nd term)Homeland Union (TS-LKD)

Gediminas Kirkilas

20062008

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2006-2008LSDP

Valdas Adamkus

20042009

President

Tenure: 2004-2009 (2nd term)Independent

Rolandas Paksas

20032004

President

Tenure: 2003-2004 (impeached)Liberal Democratic Party
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Algirdas Brazauskas

20012006

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2001-2006LSDP

Valdas Adamkus

19982003

President

Tenure: 1998-2003 (1st term)Independent

Algirdas Brazauskas

19931998

President

Tenure: 1993-1998LDDP

First Republic

Antanas Smetona

19261940

President

Tenure: 13y 5m 27dauthoritarian

Kazys Grinius

19261926

President

Tenure: 6m 10ddeposed in coup

Aleksandras Stulginskis

19201926

President

Tenure: 5y 11m 19dChristian Democrat

Antanas Smetona

19191920

President

Tenure: 1y 2m 15d1st term

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

👑 Stanisław II August Poniatowski

17641795

Grand Duke

Tenure: 31y 10m 24dmedieval

👑 Augustus III

17331763

Grand Duke

Tenure: 30y 0dmedieval

👑 Augustus II the Strong

16971733

Grand Duke

Tenure: 36y 0dmedieval

👑 John III Sobieski

16741696

Grand Duke

Tenure: 22y 0dmedieval

👑 Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki

16691673

Grand Duke

Tenure: 4y 0dmedieval

👑 John II Casimir Vasa

16481668

Grand Duke

Tenure: 20y 0dmedieval

👑 Władysław IV Vasa

16321648

Grand Duke

Tenure: 16y 0dmedieval

👑 Sigismund III Vasa

15871632

Grand Duke

Tenure: 45y 0dmedieval

👑 Stephen Báthory

15761586

Grand Duke

Tenure: 10y 0dmedieval

👑 Henry de Valois

15731575

Grand Duke

Tenure: 2y 0dmedieval

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

👑 Sigismund II Augustus

15441572

Grand Duke

Tenure: 28y 0dmedieval

👑 Sigismund I the Old

15061544

Grand Duke

Tenure: 38y 0dmedieval

👑 Alexander Jagiellon

14921506

Grand Duke

Tenure: 14y 0dmedieval

👑 Casimir IV Jagiellon

14401492

Grand Duke

Tenure: 52y 0dmedieval

👑 Sigismund Kęstutaitis

14321440

Grand Duke

Tenure: 8y 0dmedieval

👑 Švitrigaila

14301432

Grand Duke

Tenure: 2y 0dmedieval

👑 Vytautas the Great

13921430

Grand Duke

Tenure: 38y 0dmedieval

👑 Jogaila

13771392

Grand Duke

Tenure: 15y 0dmedieval

👑 Algirdas

13451377

Grand Duke

Tenure: 32y 0dmedieval

👑 Jaunutis

13411345

Grand Duke

Tenure: 4y 0dmedieval

👑 Gediminas

13161341

Grand Duke

Tenure: 25y 0dmedieval

👑 Vytenis

12951316

Grand Duke

Tenure: 21y 0dmedieval
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👑 Mindaugas

12361263

Grand Duke

Tenure: 27y 0dmedieval
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#85 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%19502000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Lithuania · share of world power, 1918–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 194511 interstate wars · click to expand
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Combat deaths:
Russian SFSR,Other Soviet republics,Mongolian People's Party
Combat deaths:
Grand Principality of Moscow
Combat deaths:
Grand Principality of Moscow,Livonian Order
Combat deaths:
Grand Principality of Moscow,Lithuanian rebels led by Michael Glinski
Combat deaths:
Grand Principality of Moscow
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
2.9m
#141 in the world
Since 1800
3.67×
from 779k
Past its peak
−22.9%
peaked at 3.7m in 1991
Share of world
0.04%
0.08% in 1800
925k1.9m2.8m3.7m18001850190019502000
Lithuania · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Lithuania is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Lithuania: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
1991
3.7m; already passed
2050
2.3m
95% band 1.7m to 3.3m
2100
1.2m
95% band 462k to 3.3m
2100 against 2025
0.43×
median falling from 2025
Deaths outnumber births
since 1994
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
972k1.9m2.9m3.9m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
54k born · 29k died · 0 net migration
TFR 2.71 · life expectancy 66.1 · median age 25.1
1960
63k born · 21k died · +2k net migration
TFR 2.62 · life expectancy 70.3 · median age 27.5
1970
55k born · 28k died · +7k net migration
TFR 2.40 · life expectancy 71.1 · median age 29.8
1980
52k born · 36k died · +7k net migration
TFR 2.00 · life expectancy 70.7 · median age 30.8
1990
57k born · 40k died · -9k net migration
TFR 2.03 · life expectancy 71.4 · median age 31.5
2000
34k born · 39k died · -16k net migration
TFR 1.38 · life expectancy 72.1 · median age 35.0
2010
32k born · 42k died · -79k net migration
TFR 1.50 · life expectancy 73.2 · median age 39.7
2020
25k born · 44k died · +20k net migration
TFR 1.49 · life expectancy 75.1 · median age 43.2
Show all 16 decades
2030
20k born · 39k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.25 · life expectancy 77.1 · median age 43.8
2040
18k born · 38k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.31 · life expectancy 78.6 · median age 47.4
2050
16k born · 38k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.35 · life expectancy 80.2 · median age 50.3
2060
13k born · 35k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.39 · life expectancy 81.7 · median age 51.6
2070
11k born · 32k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.41 · life expectancy 83.1 · median age 53.7
2080
10k born · 30k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.43 · life expectancy 84.4 · median age 55.4
2090
8k born · 26k died · -906 net migration
TFR 1.44 · life expectancy 85.6 · median age 55.2
2100
7k born · 22k died · -796 net migration
TFR 1.45 · life expectancy 86.8 · median age 55.4

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Lithuania on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.

🏟️ League Hubs

Domestic league portals that operate in Lithuania: 1 league.