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According to the data of Census, 2.864 million of Lithuania's residents were born in Lithuania. 51.6% of them were born in the cities, 42.5% were born in the rural area. 179,600 or 5.9% of residents of Lithuania were born abroad. The majority of them were born in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Latvia. 72.4% of (according to the data of 2001 Census 67.6%) Ukrainians living in Lithuania, 70.6% (66.7%) Byelorussians, 36.3% (37.1%) Russians, 9% (9.4%) Polish residents of Lithuania were born in other countries. Lithuanians who were not born in Lithuania made up 1.8% (in 2001 – 1.4%) of all the residents who were born abroad.

The residents of Lithuania live a settled way of life. 93.4% of residents indicated that a year before the census they had lived in the same place, whereas1.8% had lived in the other place in Lithuania, 0.5% had lived abroad, and 4.3% residents did not indicate where they had lived a year before the Census.

The majority of the residents who had lived abroad a year before the Census indicated the United Kingdom as the place of their residence (5,900 or 36.8% of all settled residents of Lithuania who had lived abroad), Ireland was indicated by 1,800 or 11.1%, Norway was indicated by 1,600 or 10.1%, and Germany by 900 or 5.4%.