Following the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, 1793 and 1795, the Russian Empire controlled the majority of Lithuania.

In your browser settings you can configure or disable this, respectively, and can delete any already placed cookies. In 2018, population growth rate for Lithuania was -1 %. Girteka Logistics is a largest Europe's transport company. In the third quarter of 2009, compared to the previous quarter, GDP again grew by 6.1% after five-quarters with negative numbers.

Another important manufacturing activity is chemical products. Despite that, in 1990, GDP per capita of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic was $8,591, which was above the average for the rest of the Soviet Union of $6,871 but lagging behind developed western countries. The food processing sector constitutes 11% of total exports. Lithuania is the fourth biggest supplier of furniture for IKEA after Poland, Italy and Germany.[104]. During the reign of Duke Kęstutis (1297–1382), the first cash taxes were introduced, although most taxes were still paid in goods (e.g., wheat, cattle, horses). [59] Consumption was affected by credit expansion as well. Lithuania was the first country to declare independence from Soviet Union in 1990 and rapidly moved from centrally planned to a market economy, implementing numerous liberal reforms. The inland river cargo port in Marvelė, linking Kaunas and Klaipėda, received first cargo in 2019.[137]. Lithuania is a member of the EU and the WTO, so regulation is relatively transparent and efficient, with foreign and domestic capital subject to the same rules.

[138] The biggest supply of new, modern warehousing facilities is in the capital city Vilnius (after the completion of several new projects in the third quarter of 2009, the supply of modern warehousing premises has increased by nearly 12% in Vilnius and currently reaches 334,400 m2 of the rentable area). United Nations projections are …

Lithuania is a member of the European Union and its GDP per capita is the highest in the Baltic states. Google+, © Copyright: 2020. In 2018, Google set up a payment company in Lithuania,[98] Vilnius was ranked a seventh FinTech city by foreign direct investment (FDI) performance in 2019. Lithuania comes in with a ranking of 124th in the world for sheer land area with 65,300 square kilometers. [37]As of 2016[update], 54.9% of the population aged 25 to 34, and 30.7% of the population aged 55 to 64 had completed tertiary education. On the expenditure side, household consumption is the main component of GDP and accounts for 63 percent of its total use, followed by gross fixed capital formation (19 percent) and government expenditure (17 percent). After the Russian financial crisis, the focus of Lithuania's export markets shifted from East to West. Some sectors are directed mainly at export markets. [74] In 2018 Lithuania ranked as the second most attractive location for manufacturers in the Manufacturing Risk Index 2018. One of the leaders of cellular IoT gateways producers in Europe – UAB Teltonika.