Population of Lithuania (edition 2020)

Internal migration

Over the past eleven years (in 2009–2019), 679.4 thousand of the resident population changed their permanent place of residence within the country.

Last year, 73.2 thousand country’s residents, or 2.6 per cent of the resident population, changed their permanent place of residence within the country. Against 2018, the number of internal migrants decreased by 3.0 thousand (4 per cent).

The crude arrival/departure rates (the number of arrivals/departures per 1,000 population) decreased from 27.2 in 2018 to 26.2 in 2019.

Internal migration of resident population, 2009–2019

The latest and detailed data are available in the Database of Indicators

Over the past eleven years (in 2009–2019), 404.3 thousand of the resident population changed their permanent place of residence to urban areas, and 275.1 thousand – to rural areas.

Last year, more than half (44.3 thousand, or 60.6 per cent) of the country's residents changed their usual place of residence to urban areas, and 28.9 thousand (39.4 per cent) – to rural areas (in 2018, 42.9 thousand, or 56.4 per cent, and 33.3 thousand, or 43.6 per cent respectively).

Internal migrants by direction of movement, 2019

Changed the usual place of residence to urban areas	Changed the usual place of residence to rural areas

The latest and detailed data are available in the Database of Indicators

For the last eleven years (2009–2019), each second resident of the country who has changed his/her usual place of residence within the country was aged 18–39.

In 2019, one-third (33.4 per cent) of all male migrants within the country aged 18 and older were never married, half (50.1 per cent) were married, one-sixth (16.5 per cent) – divorced and widowed (in 2018, 33.2, 46.7 and 20.1 per cent respectively). Last year, 27.6 per cent of all female migrants within the country aged 18 and older were never married, 51.5 per cent were married, 20.9 per cent – divorced and widowed (in 2018, 28.8, 48.1 and 23.1 per cent respectively).

Internal migration of resident population in municipality, 2019

The latest and detailed data are available in the Database of Indicators

Internal migration in counties, 2019

Net internal migration by county, 2019

	Net internal migration (+,–)
	Alytus	Kaunas	Klaipėda	Marijampolė	Panevėžys	Šiauliai	Tauragė	Telšiai	Utena	Vilnius
With counties	–850	3,090	1,182	–966	–1,599	–1,709	–1,090	–968	–629	3,539
Alytus	-	273	41	6	0	–19	–9	–4	–4	566
Kaunas	–273	-	86	–594	–345	–492	–351	–188	–130	–803
Klaipėda	–41	–86	-	–19	–160	–389	–417	–444	–32	406
Marijampolė	–6	594	19	-	–11	–11	34	2	–4	349
Panevėžys	0	345	160	11	-	21	–14	6	64	1,006
Šiauliai	19	492	389	11	–21	–	–34	–51	35	869
Tauragė	9	351	417	–34	14	34	–	32	–1	268
Telšiai	4	188	444	–2	–6	51	–32	-	-	330
Utena	4	130	32	4	–64	–35	1	9	-	548
Vilnius	–566	803	–406	–349	–1,006	–869	–268	–330	–548	-

Internal migrants by sex and marital status, 2019

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