The population of Lithuania (edition 2021)

Internal migration

 

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Over the past eleven years (in 2010–2020), 700.1 thousand of the resident population changed their permanent place of residence within the country.

Last year, 70.6 thousand country’s residents, or 2.5 per cent of the resident population, changed their permanent place of residence within the country. Against 2019, the number of internal migrants decreased by 2.6 thousand (3.5 per cent).

The crude arrival/departure rates (the number of arrivals/departures per 1,000 population) decreased from 26.2 in 2019 to 25.3 in 2020.

 

Internal migration of resident population, 2010–2020
Thousand

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Over the past eleven years (in 2010–2020), 415.4 thousand of the resident population changed their permanent place of residence to urban areas, and 284.6 thousand – to rural areas.

Last year, more than half (41.5 thousand, or 58.7 per cent) of the country's residents changed their usual place of residence to urban areas, and 29.1 thousand (41.3 per cent) – to rural areas (in 2019, 44.3 thousand, or 60.6 per cent, and 28.9 thousand, or 39.4 per cent respectively).

 

Internal migrants by direction of movement, 2020

Changed the usual place of residence to urban areas Changed the usual place of residence to rural areas
Created with Highcharts 6.1.4From urbanareas43.2%From urbanareas43.2%From ruralareas56.8%From ruralareas56.8%

 
Created with Highcharts 6.1.4From urbanareas83.9%From urbanareas83.9%From ruralareas16.1%From ruralareas16.1%

 

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For the last eleven years (2010–2020), each second resident of the country who has changed his/her usual place of residence within the country was aged 18–39.

In 2020, 38.2 per cent of all male migrants within the country aged 18 and older were never married, 46.7 per cent – were married, 15.1 per cent – divorced and widowed (in 2019, 33.4, 50.1 and 16.5 per cent respectively). Last year, 29.6 per cent of all female migrants within the country aged 18 and older were never married, 50 per cent – were married, 20.4 per cent – divorced and widowed (in 2019, 27.6, 51.5 and 20.9 per cent respectively).

 

Internal migration of resident population in municipality, 2020

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Internal migration in counties, 2020

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Net internal migration by county, 2020

 

Net internal migration (+,–)

Alytus

Kaunas

Klaipėda

Marijampolė

Panevėžys

Šiauliai

Tauragė

Telšiai

Utena

Vilnius

With counties

-682

1,957

684

-892

-1,337

-1,785

-939

-889

-433

4,316

Alytus

0

268

24

-19

0

-7

5

-9

2

418

Kaunas

-268

0

22

-561

-439

-486

-402

-187

-87

451

Klaipėda

-24

-22

0

-11

-80

-296

-293

-402

16

428

Marijampolė

19

561

11

0

-7

-20

23

1

1

303

Panevėžys

0

439

80

7

0

-20

-12

11

6

826

Šiauliai

7

486

296

20

20

0

-10

20

23

923

Tauragė

-5

402

293

-23

12

10

0

2

10

238

Telšiai

9

187

402

-1

-11

-20

-2

0

14

311

Utena

-2

87

-16

-1

-6

-23

-10

-14

0

418

Vilnius

-418

-451

-428

-303

-826

-923

-238

-311

-418

0

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Internal migrants by sex and marital status, 2020

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