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Lithuania - Introduction 1992
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Background: Independent between the two World Wars Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. In March of 1990 Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence but this proclamation was not generally recognized until September of 1991 (following the abortive coup in Moscow).


Lithuania - Geography 1992
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Location

Geographic coordinates

Map reference

Area
Total: 65,200 km²
Land: 65,200 km²
Comparative: slightly larger than West Virginia

Land boundaries:
1,273 km; Belarus 502 km, Latvia 453 km, Poland 91 km,
Russia (Kaliningrad) 227 km


Coastline: 108 km

Maritime claims
Contiguous zone: NA nm
Continental shelf: NA meter depth
Exclusive economic zone: NA nm
Exclusive fishing zone: NA nm
Territorial sea: NA nm
Disputes: dispute with Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) over the position of the Neman River border presently located on the Lithuanian bank and not in midriver as by international standards

Climate: maritime; wet, moderate winters

Terrain: lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil

Elevation

Natural resources: peat
Land use

Land use: 49.1% arable land; NA% permanent crops; 22.2% meadows and pastures; 16.3% forest and woodland; 12.4% other; includes NA% irrigated

Irrigated land

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Lithuania - People 1992
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Population: 3,788,542 (July 1992), growth rate 0.8% (1992)

Nationality: noun - Lithuanian(s; adjective - Lithuanian

Ethnic groups:
Lithuanian 80.1%, Russian 8.6%, Poles 7.7%,
Byelorussian 1.5%, other 2.1%


Languages: Lithuanian (official), Polish NA%, Russian NA%

Religions: Catholic NA%, Lutheran NA%, unknown NA%, none NA%, other NA%

Demographic profile
Age structure

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate

Birth rate: 15 births/1000 population (1992)

Death rate: 11 deaths/1000 population (1992)

Net migration rate: 4 migrants/1000 population (1992)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues: NA

Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 18 deaths/1000 live births (1992)

Life expectancy at birth: 66 years male, 76 years female (1992)

Total fertility rate: 2.1 children born/woman (1992)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

Literacy: NA% (male NA%, female NA%) age 15 and over can read and write

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Lithuania - Government 1992
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Country name
Conventional long form: Republic of Lithuania

Government type: republic

Capital: Vilnius

Administrative divisions: none - all rayons are under direct republic jurisdiction

Dependent areas

Independence:
1918; annexed by the Soviet Union 3 August 1940; restored independence 11 March 1990; and regained indpendence from the USSR 6
September 1991


National holiday:
Independence Day, 16 February; Defenders of Freedom
Day, 13 January


Constitution: NA; Constitutional Commission has drafted a new constitution that will be sent to Parliament for ratification

Legal system: based on civil law system; no judicial review of legislative acts

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: universal at age 18
President:
last held March 1990 (elected by Parliament); results -
LANDSBERGIS, BRAZAUSKAS

Supreme Council: last held 24 February 1990; results - Sajudis (nationalist movement won a large majority) (90) 63%; seats - (141 total)

Executive branch: prime minister, Council of Ministers, Government,

Legislative branch: unicameral Supreme Council, Parliament

Judicial branch: Supreme Court; Court of Appeals; district and city courts; Procurator General of Lithuania

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation: CSCE, IAEA, ILO, NACC, UN, UNCTAD
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Stasys LOZORAITIS, Jr.; Embassy at 2,622 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20,009; telephone (202) 234-5,860, 2,639
US: Ambassador Darryl JOHNSON; Embassy at Mykolaicio putino 4, Vilnius; (mailing address is APO AE 9,862); telephone 7 (01-22) 628-049

Diplomatic representation

Flag descriptionflag of Lithuania: yellow, green, and red horizontal stripes

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


Lithuania - Economy 1992
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Economy overview:
Lithuania is striving to become a small, independent, largely privatized economy rather than a segment of a huge, centrally planned economy. Although substantially above average in living standards and technology in the old USSR, Lithuania historically lagged behind Latvia and
Estonia in economic development. It is ahead of its Baltic neighbors, however, in implementing market reform. The country has no important natural resources aside from its arable land: and strategic location. Industry depends entirely on imported materials that have come from the republics of the former USSR. Lithuania benefits from its ice-free port at Klaipeda on the Baltic Sea and its rail and highway hub at Vilnius, which provides land communication between Eastern Europe and Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and
Belarus. Industry produces a small assortment of high-quality products, ranging from complex machine tools to sophisticated consumer electronics.
Thanks to nuclear power, Lithuania is presently self-sufficient in electricity, exporting its surplus to Latvia and Belarus; the nuclear facilities inherited from the USSR, however, have come under world scrutiny as seriously deficient in safety standards. Agriculture is efficient compared with most of the former Soviet Union. Lithuania holds first place in per capita consumption of meat, second place for eggs and potatoes, and fourth place for milk and dairy products. Grain must be imported to support the meat and dairy industries. As to economic reforms, Lithuania is pressing ahead with plans to privatize at least 60% of state-owned property (industry, agriculture, and housing) having already sold many small enterprises using a voucher system. Other government priorities include stimulating foreign investment by protecting the property rights of foreign firms and redirecting foreign trade away from Eastern markets to the more competitive Western markets. For the moment, Lithuania will remain highly dependent on Russia for energy, raw materials, grains, and markets for its products.

GDP: purchasing power equivalent - $NA; per capita NA; real growth rate - 13% (1991)

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate

Real gdp per capita

Gross national saving
Gdp composition by sector of origin

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products: employs 29% of labor force; sugar, grain, potatoes, sugarbeets, vegetables, meat, milk, dairy products, eggs, and fish; most developed are the livestock and dairy branches - these depend on imported grain; Lithuania is a net exporter of meat, milk, and eggs

Industries: employs 25% of the labor force; its shares in the total production of the former USSR are metal-cutting machine tools 6.6%; electric motors 4.6%; television sets 6.2%; refrigerators and freezers 5.4%; other production includes petroleum refining, shipbuilding (small ships), furniture making, textiles, food processing, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, optical equipment, electronic components, computers, and amber

Industrial production growth rate: growth rate - 1.3% (1991)

Labor force: 1,836,000; industry and construction 42%, agriculture and forestry 18%, other 40% (1990)
Organized labor:
Lithuanian Trade Union Association; Labor Federation of
Lithuania; Union of Workers

Labor force

Unemployment rate: NA%

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget: revenues 4.8 billion rubles; expenditures 4.7 billion rubles (1989 economic survey; note - budget revenues and expenditures are not given for other former Soviet republics; implied deficit from these figures does not have a clear interpretation

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: calendar year

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports: 700 million rubles (f.o.b., 1990)
Commodoties: electronics 18%, petroleum products 16%, food 10%, chemicals 6% (1989)
Partners:
Russia 60%, Ukraine 15%, other former Soviet republics 20%,
West 5%


Imports: 2.2 billion rubles (c.i.f., 1990)
Commodoties: oil 24%, machinery 14%, chemicals 8%, grain NA%
Partners: NA

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: NA


Lithuania - Energy 1992
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Electricity
Production: 5,875,000 kW capacity; 25,500 million kWh produced, NA kWh per capita (1991)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Lithuania - Communication 1992
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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Lithuania - Military 1992
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Military expenditures

Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Lithuania - Transportation 1992
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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports: NA

Heliports

Pipelines: NA

Railways

Roadways

Waterways: 600 km perennially navigable

Merchant marine:
66 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 268,854
GRT/315,690 DWT; includes 27 cargo, 24 timber carrier, 1 container, 3 railcar carrier, 11 combination bulk

Civil air: NA

Ports and terminals


Lithuania - Transnational issues 1992
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Disputes international

Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for illicit drugs from Central and
Southwest Asia to Western Europe



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