Lithuania
Republic of Lithuania
- Capital
- Vilnius
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Population, 2025
- 2.9 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 65,300 km²
Across Lithuania's 23 priced cities, one person needs about $1,506 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,742.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
70out of 100
- Purchasing power25%67
- Safety20%67
- Health care15%75
- Climate10%70
- Air quality10%100
- Connectivity10%74
- Cost10%44
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #9
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
55.9
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
12.6
New York = 100
Purchasing power
131.2
New York = 100
One person
$1,506
A month, rent included
Net salary
$1,742
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$667
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$32,959
2025
Growth
+2.9%
2025
Unemployment
6.7%
2025
Inflation
3.8%
2025
Life expectancy
77.2 years
2024
Internet users
89%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 32%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 31.2%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 17%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 21%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 19.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 1.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 67.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 32.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 2.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #40 worldwide
- 188
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #36 worldwide
- 123
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Lithuania
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Vilnius | 69 | 57.9 | $863 | $1,989 | 131.2 | 542.4K | High confidence, 146 contributors |
| 2Kaunas | 68 | 55.9 | $667 | $1,742 | 132.2 | 289.4K | High confidence, 46 contributors |
| 3Klaipeda | 66 | 52.0 | $597 | $1,574 | 130.7 | 172.3K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 4Visaginas | 65 | 54.8 | $201 | $1,563 | 174.4 | 18K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 5Jurbarkas | 64 | 53.1 | $459 | $1,960 | 178.2 | 10.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 6Siauliai | 64 | 47.2 | $430 | $1,567 | 157.3 | 99.5K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 7Jonava | 63 | 50.0 | $287 | $1,294 | 142.6 | 26.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 8Garliava | 63 | 52.0 | $348 | $1,392 | 141.0 | 9.9K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 9Panevezys | 62 | 52.9 | $430 | $1,528 | 142.5 | 85.9K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 10Kretinga | 62 | 51.0 | — | $1,442 | 137.0 | 17.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 11Elektrenai | 62 | 51.6 | $348 | $1,290 | 131.3 | 13.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 12Alytus | 62 | 50.6 | $344 | $1,236 | 127.9 | 49.2K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 13Ukmerge | 62 | 49.9 | $348 | $1,225 | 127.6 | 20.2K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 14Kedainiai | 62 | 51.7 | $402 | $1,336 | 129.6 | 22.7K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 15Marijampole | 62 | 48.7 | $402 | $1,252 | 126.3 | 35K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 16Utena | 62 | 51.7 | $344 | $1,236 | 126.1 | 25.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 17Mazeikiai | 61 | 48.4 | $344 | $1,131 | 120.7 | 32.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 18Plunge | 61 | 54.3 | $406 | $1,320 | 123.5 | 18.9K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 19Druskininkai | 61 | 50.6 | $517 | $1,358 | 121.6 | 12.1K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 20Vilkaviskis | 59 | 52.1 | — | $1,137 | 106.6 | 9.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 21Telsiai | 59 | 57.0 | — | — | — | 21.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 22Raseiniai | 59 | 57.0 | — | $1,209 | 106.9 | 9.7K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 23Palanga | 58 | 56.2 | $804 | $1,514 | 105.0 | 18.2K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |