The 2021 Lithuania Census was the first

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

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carried out electronically. Basing on the recommendations of the

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and the July 9, 2008 European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No. 763/2008 on population and housing censuses, the censuses are carried out the same year every 10 years in all member states of the

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. In Lithuania the census accounting day was January 1, 2021. Within the framework of the census, in the following months a statistical study was carried out of the population's nationality, native language and professed faith. During the first stage in January-February the survey was carried out online for 56 thousand of residents, at the second stage in April-June the surveyors surveyed 115 thousand of residents who didn't take part in the online survey from 40 thousand households.Jūratė Petrauskienė
LIETUVOS GYVENTOJAI 2021 METAIS. Lietuvos Respublikos 2021 metų visuotinio gyventojų ir būstų surašymo rezultatai

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On January 1, 2021, 2,810,761 persons permanently lived in Lithuania, a decline from 3,483,972 recorded during the previous

Lithuanian census of 2001 The 2001 Lithuania Census was carried out during April 6 - April 16 by the State Data Agency, Lithuanian Department of Statistics. The results were published in 2002.

. The decline was attributed to negative international migration of 119 thousand (51%) and negative population change of 114 thousand (49%). The census was carried out in 103 urban locations (1,916,751 residents) and 16,039 rural locations (894,010 residents). According to the statistical study, 85.33% of the country's population speak Lithuanian as their native language, 6.8% are native speakers of

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

and 5.1% of

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

. , 60.6% of residents speak Russian as a foreign language, 31.1% – English, 10.5% – Lithuanian, 8% – German, 7.9% – Polish, 1.9% – French, 2.6% – various others.

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2021 censuses

Census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

January 2021 in Lithuania {{lithuania-hist-stub

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