In March 2024, against March 2023, purchase prices of agricultural products decreased by 6.6 per cent. Purchase prices for crop products decreased by 15.8 per cent, those for livestock products – 1.8 per cent.

In March 2024, against the same period in 2023, the amount of organic raw milk (actual fat content) purchased increased by 31.93, and the price – 5.73 per cent.

At the beginning of 2024, 402,303 economic entities, farmers and natural persons were operating in Lithuania. This is 12.7 per cent more than at the beginning of last year.

In the end of 2023, government debt totalled EUR 31.1 billion and, compared to the same period in 2022, increased by 8.6 per cent. Debt to domestic creditors accounted for 37 per cent, to foreign creditors - 63 per cent.

• At the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year, 477.4 thousand pupils and students, or almost every sixth Lithuanian resident, were studying in the country's educational institutions.