Analytics, Lithuania
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Wednesday, 06.08.2025, 08:40
In early 2014 women made up 54% of total population in Lithuania
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Married women aged 15 and older made up 46%, men – 53%. The number of divorced women was 1.7 times, that of widowed women - as much as 7 times higher than that of men.
Among all students enrolled in higher education women amounted to 58% and 42% of men.
According to the Labour Force survey data, the activity rate of women aged 15-64 stood at 70.3 that of men - at 74.7%.
The female unemployment rate stood at 10.5, the male one - at 13.1%.
Health care and social work, where women made up 86% of all employees, remained the most feminine field of activity; in education, women made up 80, accommodation and food service activities – 77%. The most masculine fields of activity - construction (where men made up 92% of all employees) and transportation and storage (74%).
The average gross monthly earnings of women made up 86% of those of men.
5.7 thousand women and 293 men were recorded as victims of domestic violence, i.e. family members - a spouse, a cohabitant.
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