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It is predicted that in 2025 the area of winter wheat will be 765.8 thousand ha (or by 4.4 per cent more than in 2024).

Based on provisional data, at the beginning of January 2025, 2 million 897 thousand residents were living in Lithuania, which is by 11.5 thousand more than at the beginning of the 2024.

In December 2024, compared to December 2023*:

• the number of live births decreased by 132 babies (8.4 per cent) and stood at 1,439;
• the number of deaths decreased by 102 (2.9 per cent) and stood at 3,417;
• the number of marriages decreased by 66 couple (10.5 per cent) and stood at 564;
• the number of divorces increased by 122 couple (22 per cent) and stood at 677;
• the number of residents who emigrated from Lithuania increased by 0.9 thousand persons (71.1 per cent) and stood at 2.1 thousand;
• the number of persons who immigrated to Lithuania decreased by 1.2 thousand persons (22.9 per cent) and stood at 4 thousand**.

In December 2024, 44.3 per cent of immigrants were the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who came back to Lithuania.

* 2024 preliminary and 2023 final data are compared.

* War refugees from Ukraine are included in the 2024 monthly statistics.

* Lyginami 2024 m. išankstiniai ir 2023 m. galutiniai duomenys.

** Karo pabėgėliai iš Ukrainos įtraukti į 2024 m. mėnesinę statistiką.

As of 1 January 2025, there were 227,810 registered economic entities in Lithuania, of these, 151,868 (excluding natural persons engaged in economic activity) were operating.

•   most economic entities (21 per cent) carried out wholesale and retail trade;
•   the majority (87.2 per cent) of operating economic entities employed less than 10 employees;
•   annual income of slightly more than half of economic entities in the country (54.3 per cent) was up to EUR 100 thousand. Economic entities receiving more than EUR 0.5 million of income per year account for 15.8 per cent of all operating economic entities.

In December 2024, against November, the economic sentiment indicator, i.e. confidence of economic actors – producers, consumers and investors – in Lithuania’s economy, decreased from -0.3 to -2.2 per cent. The construction confidence indicator decreased from -17.1 to -20.3, services – from 7.4 to 5, industry – from -7.3 to -9.5, retail trade – from 1.4 to 0.5, consumer – from 6 to 5.3 per cent.
Compared to December 2023, economic sentiment indicator increased by 6.7 percentage points. The services confidence indicator increased by 12.2, construction – 5.8, consumer – 4.5, industry – 4.2, retail trade – 3.1 percentage points.

In January 2025, the minimum monthly wage is EUR 1,038, the minimum hourly pay – EUR 6.35.

At the end of November 2024, the debt of the central government amounted to EUR 29.1 billion and, compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, increased by 9.9 per cent.
Debt to foreign creditors accounted for 68.2 per cent, debt to domestic creditors – 31.8 per cent.

In October 2024, the turnover (VAT excluded) of service enterprises amounted to EUR 3 billion 799 million at current prices and, against September 2024, seasonally and calendar adjusted, increased by 2.4 per cent at constant prices, while against October 2023, seasonally and calendar adjusted, increased by 8.2 per cent.

In November 2024, the number of overnight stays in the accommodation establishments totalled 552.8 thousand and, compared to the same period last year, increased by 5.5 per cent. The number of overnight stays of foreign tourists totalled 203.2 thousand (or by 2.5 per cent more), of Lithuania’s residents – 349.6 thousand (or by 7.3 per cent more).
In November 2024, room occupancy rate in hotels and motels stood at 55.9 per cent and, compared to the same period in 2023, increased by 4.2 percentage points, bed occupancy rate accounted for 42.1 per cent and increased by 3.6 percentage points.