Lithuania (2025)
13,982
EUR per person per year
+13.4% YoY
YoY Change
+13.4%
year-on-year
vs. EU-27 Average
61.0%
of EU-27 median, 2025
+33.2pp since 2010
Series length
16
years of data

Data

Median Equivalised Net Income in Lithuania (2025) — source data. Eurostat.
Year EUR per person YoY Change
2025 13,982 +13.4%
2024 12,325 +9.2%
2023 11,284 +10.7%
2022 10,195 +5.4%
2021 9,669 +12.4%
2020 8,606 +13.4%
2019 7,586 +10.0%
2018 6,895 +12.4%
2017 6,134 +8.7%
2016 5,645 +9.0%
2015 5,180 +7.4%
2014 4,823 +2.7%
2013 4,698 +8.3%
2012 4,337 +12.4%
2011 3,857 -4.3%
2010 4,030 n/a

About this Dataset

Lithuania's median equivalised net income (the typical per-person disposable income after adjusting household income for household size) reached approximately 13,982 EUR in 2025, according to Eurostat's EU-SILC series (ILC_DI03). That marks a 13.4% increase from 12,325 EUR in 2024, continuing a run of largely consistent annual gains through most of the 2010–2025 series.

For analysts benchmarking purchasing power across European markets, the more useful reference point is Lithuania's position relative to the EU-27 average. In 2010, Lithuania's median income of 4,030 EUR was about 27.8% of the EU-27's 14,521 EUR — reflecting the country's still-developing post-accession income base. That gap has typically narrowed in nearly every year since, with Lithuania's ratio reaching 61.0% in 2025, an increase of roughly 33.2 percentage points over 15 years — one of the steadier convergence paths among Baltic and central European economies.

Growth has not been perfectly linear. Lithuania's income dipped in 2011 (-4.3%) before climbing at a fairly steady high-single-digit to low-double-digit annual pace through most of the 2010s, with particularly strong single-year gains in 2020 (+13.4%) and 2025 (+13.4%), the two largest increases in the series. These likely reflect sustained minimum-wage increases alongside nominal wage growth across the economy. Because EU-SILC income figures are denominated in current-year euros and not adjusted for inflation, part of each gain likely reflects nominal rather than real purchasing-power changes.

Coverage and methodology: Eurostat compiles median equivalised net income annually from EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) microdata, adjusting household disposable income for household size and composition using the modified OECD equivalence scale (first adult = 1, each additional adult 14+ = 0.5, each child under 14 = 0.3). Figures are denominated in current-year euros and are not adjusted for inflation, so cross-year comparisons reflect nominal rather than real purchasing-power changes. The EU-27 aggregate used for comparison is Eurostat's EU27_2020 composition. The 2024 and 2025 values for Lithuania are flagged provisional by Eurostat and may be revised. Statistics Lithuania (Lietuvos statistikos departamentas) provides the underlying survey data feeding into this series.

Frequently Asked Questions

Eurostat's EU-SILC data (dataset ILC_DI03) put Lithuania's median equivalised net income at approximately 13,982 EUR per person in 2025 (provisional), up from 12,325 EUR in 2024 — a year-on-year increase of roughly 13.4%. Equivalised income adjusts household disposable income for household size and composition using the modified OECD scale, so the figure reflects typical per-person purchasing power rather than a raw household total.

In 2025, Lithuania's median equivalised net income of 13,982 EUR was about 61.0% of the EU-27 average of 22,939 EUR, a gap of around 8,957 EUR. That gap has typically narrowed nearly every year since 2010, when Lithuania's ratio to the EU-27 average stood at roughly 27.8% — one of the more consistent convergence trajectories among central and eastern European economies.

Lithuania's median equivalised net income rose from 4,030 EUR in 2010 to 13,982 EUR in 2025 — a cumulative gain of roughly 247% over 15 years, more than tripling. Growth was typically in the high-single-digit to low-double-digit range annually, aside from a dip in 2011.

Lithuania's median equivalised net income rose 13.4% in 2020 (from 7,586 EUR to 8,606 EUR) and again by roughly the same margin in 2025 (from 12,325 EUR to 13,982 EUR) — the two largest single-year gains in the 2010–2025 series. These likely reflect a combination of sustained minimum-wage increases and nominal wage growth, though because EU-SILC figures are denominated in current-year euros, part of each gain likely reflects nominal rather than real purchasing-power increases.

Mostly, yes, with one notable exception. Lithuania's ratio to the EU-27 average dipped slightly from about 27.8% in 2010 to roughly 26.3% in 2011, as Lithuania's income fell 4.3% that year while the EU-27 average continued rising. In most years since 2012, though, Lithuania's income growth has outpaced the EU-27 average in percentage terms, and the ratio climbed steadily to 61.0% by 2025, consistent with the broader income-convergence pattern typically seen among Baltic economies since euro adoption in 2015.