Lithuania in figures (edition 2023)

Social protection

 

 

 

 

Social protection receipts and expenditure are cal­culated according to the European System of Inte­grated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS).

According to the ESSPROS, social pro­tection encompasses all interventions from State, municipal or private bodies intended to relieve households and individu­als of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs, provided that there is neither a simultaneous reciprocal ar­rangement nor an individual arrange­ment involved.

 

 

 

The list of risks or needs (functions) that may give rise to social protection is as follows:

1. Sickness and/or health care;

2. Disability;

3. Old age;

4. Survivors;

5. Family and/or children;

6. Unemployment;

7. Housing;

8. Social exclusion not elsewhere classified.

 

Retirement (old-age pension) age
From 1 January 2012, the retirement age for men is prolonged by two months and for women – by four months every year, until it reaches the statutory retirement age of 65 for men and women (2026).

Year

Males

Females

2023

64 years 6 months

64 years

2022

64 years 4 months

63 years 8 months

2021

64 years 2 months

63 years 4 months

2020

64 years

63 years

2019

63 years 10 months

62 years 8 months

In 2021, social protection expenditure amounted to EUR 10.4 billion, or, on average, EUR 3,714.8 per capita. Over the year, per-capita expenditure increased by 7 per cent, compared to 2010 – 115 per cent. In 2021, social protection expenditure, compared to the gross domestic product, was 18.6 per cent (in 2020, 19.5 per cent).

 

 

Social protection expenditure

 

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021*

Social protection expenditure 1, EUR mill.

6,373.8

7,209.3

8,055.0

9,705.1

10,432.4

Per capita, EUR

2,254

2,573

2,883

3,472

3,715

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1Indicators calculated according to the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS).

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

 

Social protection expenditure, compared to gross domestic product (GDP)
Per cent

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Expenditure on benefits related to old age has been predominant. In 2021, it amounted to EUR 3.7 billion, or 36.5 per cent of total expenditure on social benefits. Compared to 2020, old age‑related expenditure increased by EUR 112.4 million, or 3.4 per cent.

At the end of 2022, there were 882.1 thousand persons receiving at least one pension, i.e. 30.8 per cent of the total population. Compared to 2021, the number of pension beneficiaries increased slightly. State social insurance old-age pen­sioners accounted for the greatest proportion of pension beneficiaries; at the end of 2022, their number totalled 616.2 thousand and, compared to 2021, increased by 0.6 per cent (3.5 thousand).

 

 

Based on provisional data, in 2021, against 2020, expenditure on pensions increased by EUR 295 million (8 per cent) and amounted to EUR 4 billion. In 2021, the share of such expenditure, compared to gross domestic product (GDP), made up 7.2 per cent.

In 2021, expenditure on disability bene­fits amounted to EUR 795.4 million, or 7.8 per cent of total expenditure on social protection benefits. Compared to 2020, it increased by EUR 115.6 million, or 17 per cent.

At the end of 2022, compared to 2021, the number of state social in­sur­ance work incapacity (disability) pension beneficiaries decreased by 4.4 thousand (2.9 per cent) and amounted to 146.5 thousand.

In 2021, sickness and health care expenditure amounted to EUR 3.1 billion, or 30.3 per cent of total expenditure on social protection benefits. Compared to 2020, it increased by 8 per cent.

In 2021, 11.2 per cent of total expenditure on social security benefits in cash and kind was allocated to family and children. Compared to 2020, such expenditure increased by EUR 54.5 million (5 per cent) and amounted to EUR 1.14 billion in 2021.

 

 

Structure of social protection benefits by function, 2021*

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Average annual number of persons entitled to pensions
Thousand

Type of pension

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

State social insurance1

 

 

 

 

 

Old-age

578.0

596.0

600.8

597.8

597.5

Anticipatory old-age

6.7

5.9

5.2

5.6

7.0

Work incapacity (disability)

192.1

171.7

162.5

154.6

147.9

Widow’s, widower’s and orphans (Loss of breadwinner)

245.1

242.4

239.1

235.7

234.0

Compensation for extra-ordinary work conditions

4.4

4.2

3.9

3.6

3.2

Social assistance pensions and relief compensations

49.5

48.7

46.3

42.3

41.9

State

 

 

 

 

 

State pension of the Republic of Lithuania of I and II degree

13.0

12.3

11.5

10.7

10.1

State pension of scientists

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.4

3.3

State pension of casualties

61.1

58.8

56.4

53.6

51.0

State pension of servicemen and officers

22.1

22.7

23.2

23.6

24.0

State pension of judges

0.21

0.23

0.25

0.27

0.29

Compensation benefit to creative workers of theatre and concert establishments (annuity of artists)

0.24

0.26

0.28

0.27

0.26

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1 Recipients of State social insurance pensions paid to Lithuanian nationals living abroad are not included.

Source: Data provided by the State Social Insurance Fund Board and the Ministry of Social Security

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

 

Number of pension beneficiaries and expenditure on pensions

 

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022*

Number of pension benefici­a­ries1 (end of the year), thous.

904.7

899.8

886.0

881.7

882.1

Number of pension beneficia­ries, compared to the total population (end of the year), %

32.4

32.2

31.7

31.5

30.8

Expenditure on pensions1, EUR mill.

3,181.6

3,421.6

3,712.0

4,007.5

4,555.5

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1Indicators calculated according to the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS).

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

 

Expenditure on pensions, compared to GDP
Per cent

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Number of recipients of social assistance benefit per 1,000 population, 2022

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In 2022, 66 child­ren who have lost parental care were adop­ted (in 2021, 69), of them 7 – by foreign nationals (in 2021, 12). 

 

 

Adopted children

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Source: Data provided by the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour

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The number of children available for adoption increased by 7.9 per cent over the year and amounted to 1,029 at the end of 2022.

 

 

Children available for adoption
End of the year

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Source: Data provided by the State Child Right Protection and Adoption Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour

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

Explanation of symbols

*Provisional data.

** Revised data.

For further terms, see the Dictionary of Statistical Terms