Population — national citizens

In 2017, Lithuania's population decreased by 1.3% compared to 2016, reaching 2,839,273.

Lithuania accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

Lithuania ranks 21st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 4.7% (from 2,978,563 in 2012).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.