factbook.json/europe/lt-lithuania.json

{
  "intro": {
    "background": {
      "text": "Lithuanian lands were united under MINDAUGAS in 1236; over the next century, through alliances and conquest, Lithuania extended its territory to include most of present-day Belarus and Ukraine. By the end of the 14th century Lithuania was the largest state in Europe. An alliance with Poland in 1386 led the two countries into a union through the person of a common ruler. In 1569, Lithuania and Poland formally united into a single dual state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This entity survived until 1795 when its remnants were partitioned by surrounding countries. Lithuania regained its independence following World War I but was annexed by the USSR in 1940 - an action never recognized by the US and many other countries. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation until September of 1991 (following the abortive coup in Moscow). The last Russian troops withdrew in 1993. Lithuania subsequently restructured its economy for integration into Western European institutions; it joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004."
    }
  },
  "geo": {
    "location": {
      "text": "Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Russia"
    },
    "geographic_coordinates": {
      "text": "56 00 N, 24 00 E"
    },
    "map_references": {
      "text": "Europe"
    },
    "area": {
      "total": "65,300 sq km",
      "land": "62,680 sq km",
      "water": "2,620 sq km"
    },
    "area_comparative": {
      "text": "slightly larger than West Virginia"
    },
    "land_boundaries": {
      "total": "1,574 km",
      "border_countries": "Belarus 680 km, Latvia 576 km, Poland 91 km, Russia (Kaliningrad) 227 km"
    },
    "coastline": {
      "text": "90 km"
    },
    "maritime_claims": {
      "territorial_sea": "12 nm"
    },
    "climate": {
      "text": "transitional, between maritime and continental; wet, moderate winters and summers"
    },
    "terrain": {
      "text": "lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil"
    },
    "elevation_extremes": {
      "lowest_point": "Baltic Sea 0 m",
      "highest_point": "Aukstojas 294 m"
    },
    "natural_resources": {
      "text": "peat, arable land, amber"
    },
    "land_use": {
      "arable_land": "33.48%",
      "permanent_crops": "0.47%",
      "other": "66.05% (2011)"
    },
    "irrigated_land": {
      "text": "13.4 sq km (2007)"
    },
    "total_renewable_water_resources": {
      "text": "24.9 cu km (2011)"
    },
    "freshwater_withdrawal_domestic_industrial_agricultural": {
      "total": "2.38  cu km/yr (7%/90%/3%)",
      "per_capita": "703.8  cu m/yr (2009)"
    },
    "natural_hazards": {
      "text": "NA"
    },
    "environment_current_issues": {
      "text": "contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products and chemicals at military bases"
    },
    "environment_international_agreements": {
      "party_to": "Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands",
      "signed_but_not_ratified": "none of the selected agreements"
    },
    "geography_note": {
      "text": "fertile central plains are separated by hilly uplands that are ancient glacial deposits"
    }
  },
  "people": {
    "nationality": {
      "noun": "Lithuanian(s)",
      "adjective": "Lithuanian"
    },
    "ethnic_groups": {
      "text": "Lithuanian 84%, Polish 6.1%, Russian 4.9%, Belarusian 1.1%, other or unspecified 3.9% (2009)"
    },
    "languages": {
      "text": "Lithuanian (official) 82%, Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other and unspecified 4.4% (2001 census)"
    },
    "religions": {
      "text": "Roman Catholic 79%, Russian Orthodox 4.1%, Protestant (including Lutheran and Evangelical Christian Baptist) 1.9%, other or unspecified 5.5%, none 9.5% (2001 census)"
    },
    "population": {
      "text": "3,515,858 (July 2013 est.)"
    },
    "age_structure": {
      "0_14_years": "13.6% (male 245,028/female 232,356)",
      "15_24_years": "13% (male 233,939/female 223,495)",
      "25_54_years": "44.8% (male 784,389/female 790,066)",
      "55_64_years": "11.9% (male 187,057/female 229,943)",
      "65_years_and_over": "16.8% (male 204,314/female 385,271) (2013 est.)"
    },
    "dependency_ratios": {
      "total_dependency_ratio": "44.6 %",
      "youth_dependency_ratio": "22 %",
      "elderly_dependency_ratio": "22.7 %",
      "potential_support_ratio": "4.4 (2013)"
    },
    "median_age": {
      "total": "40.8 years",
      "male": "38.2 years",
      "female": "43.3 years (2013 est.)"
    },
    "population_growth_rate": {
      "text": "-0.28% (2013 est.)"
    },
    "birth_rate": {
      "text": "9.36 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)"
    },
    "death_rate": {
      "text": "11.48 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)"
    },
    "net_migration_rate": {
      "text": "-0.73 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)"
    },
    "urbanization": {
      "urban_population": "67% of total population (2010)",
      "rate_of_urbanization": "-0.5% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)"
    },
    "major_urban_areas_population": {
      "text": "VILNIUS (capital) 546,000 (2009)"
    },
    "sex_ratio": {
      "at_birth": "1.06 male(s)/female",
      "0_14_years": "1.06 male(s)/female",
      "15_24_years": "1.04 male(s)/female",
      "25_54_years": "0.99 male(s)/female",
      "55_64_years": "0.81 male(s)/female",
      "65_years_and_over": "0.53 male(s)/female",
      "total_population": "0.89 male(s)/female (2013 est.)"
    },
    "mother_s_mean_age_at_first_birth": {
      "text": "26.6 (2010 est.)"
    },
    "maternal_mortality_rate": {
      "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)"
    },
    "infant_mortality_rate": {
      "total": "6.09 deaths/1,000 live births",
      "male": "7.26 deaths/1,000 live births",
      "female": "4.85 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)"
    },
    "life_expectancy_at_birth": {
      "total_population": "75.77 years",
      "male": "70.96 years",
      "female": "80.84 years (2013 est.)"
    },
    "total_fertility_rate": {
      "text": "1.28 children born/woman (2013 est.)"
    },
    "contraceptive_prevalence_rate": {
      "text": "62.9%",
      "note": "percent of women aged 18-49 (2006)"
    },
    "health_expenditures": {
      "text": "7% of GDP (2010)"
    },
    "physicians_density": {
      "text": "3.66 physicians/1,000 population (2008)"
    },
    "hospital_bed_density": {
      "text": "6.8 beds/1,000 population (2009)"
    },
    "drinking_water_source": {
      "improved": "urban: 93% of population; rural: 81% of population; total: 92% of population",
      "unimproved": "urban: 7% of population; rural: 19% of population; total: 8% of population (2000 est.)"
    },
    "sanitation_facility_access": {
      "improved": "urban: 95% of population; rural: 69% of population; total: 86% of population",
      "unimproved": "urban: 5% of population; rural: 31% of population; total: 14% of population (2000 est.)"
    },
    "hiv_aids_adult_prevalence_rate": {
      "text": "0.1% (2009 est.)"
    },
    "hiv_aids_people_living_with_hiv_aids": {
      "text": "1,200 (2009 est.)"
    },
    "hiv_aids_deaths": {
      "text": "fewer than 100 (2009 est.)"
    },
    "major_infectious_diseases": {
      "degree_of_risk": "intermediate",
      "vectorborne_diseases": "tickborne encephalitis (2013)"
    },
    "obesity_adult_prevalence_rate": {
      "text": "27.6% (2008)"
    },
    "education_expenditures": {
      "text": "5.7% of GDP (2009)"
    },
    "literacy": {
      "definition": "age 15 and over can read and write",
      "total_population": "99.7%",
      "male": "99.7%",
      "female": "99.7% (2011 est.)"
    },
    "school_life_expectancy_primary_to_tertiary_education": {
      "total": "16 years",
      "male": "15 years",
      "female": "16 years (2011)"
    },
    "unemployment_youth_ages_15_24": {
      "total": "32.9%",
      "male": "34.6%",
      "female": "30.5% (2011)"
    }
  },
  "govt": {
    "country_name": {
      "conventional_long_form": "Republic of Lithuania",
      "conventional_short_form": "Lithuania",
      "local_long_form": "Lietuvos Respublika",
      "local_short_form": "Lietuva",
      "former": "Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic"
    },
    "government_type": {
      "text": "parliamentary democracy"
    },
    "capital": {
      "name": "Vilnius",
      "geographic_coordinates": "54 41 N, 25 19 E",
      "time_difference": "UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)",
      "daylight_saving_time": "+1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October"
    },
    "administrative_divisions": {
      "text": "10 counties (apskritys, singular - apskritis); Alytaus, Kauno, Klaipedos, Marijampoles, Panevezio, Siauliu, Taurages, Telsiu, Utenos, Vilniaus"
    },
    "independence": {
      "text": "11 March 1990 (declared); 6 September 1991 (recognized by the Soviet Union); notable earlier dates: 6 July 1253 (coronation of MINDAUGAS, traditional founding date), 1 July 1569 (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth created)"
    },
    "national_holiday": {
      "text": "Independence Day, 16 February (1918); note - 16 February 1918 was the date Lithuania declared its independence from Soviet Russia and established its statehood; 11 March 1990 was the date it declared its independence from the Soviet Union"
    },
    "constitution": {
      "text": "adopted 25 October 1992; last amended 25 April 2006"
    },
    "legal_system": {
      "text": "civil law system; legislative acts can be appealed to the constitutional court"
    },
    "international_law_organization_participation": {
      "text": "has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; accepts ICCt jurisdiction"
    },
    "suffrage": {
      "text": "18 years of age; universal"
    },
    "executive_branch": {
      "chief_of_state": "President Dalia GRYBAUSKAITE (since 12 July 2009)",
      "head_of_government": "Prime Minister Algirdas BUTKEVICIUS (since 22 November 2012)",
      "cabinet": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president on the nomination of the prime minister and approval of the Parliament",
      "elections": "president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 17 May 2009 (next to be held in May 2014); prime minister appointed by the president on the approval of the Parliament",
      "election_results": "Dalia GRYBAUSKAITE elected president; percent of vote - Dalia GRYBAUSKAITE 69.1%, Algirdas BUTKEVICIUS 11.8%, Valentinas MAZURONIS 6.2%, others 12.9%; Algirdas BUTKEVICIUS approved by Parliament 90-40"
    },
    "legislative_branch": {
      "text": "unicameral Parliament or Seimas (141 seats; 71 members elected in single-member districts, 70 elected by proportional representation; members to serve four-year terms)",
      "elections": "last held on 14 and 28 October 2012 (next to be held in October 2016)",
      "election_results": "percent of vote by party (proportional vote) - DP 19.8%, LSDP 18.4%, TS-LKD 15.1%, LS 8.6%, DK 8%, TT 7.3%, LLRA 5.8%, LVZS 3.9%, other parties 13.1%; seats by party - LSDP 38, TS-LKD 33, DP 29, TT 11, LS 10, LLRA 8, DK 7, unaffiliated 4, vacant 1"
    },
    "judicial_branch": {
      "highest_courts": "Supreme Court (consists of 37 judges); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 judges)",
      "judge_selection_and_term_of_office": "Supreme Court judges nominated by the president and appointed by the Seimas; judges serve 5-year renewable terms; Constitutional Court judges selected by Seimas from among nominations by the president, by the Seimas chairperson, and Supreme Court chairperson; judges serve 9-year, nonrenewable terms; note - one-third of court judges reconstituted every 3 years",
      "subordinate_courts": "Court of Appeals; district and local courts"
    },
    "political_parties_and_leaders": {
      "text": "Christian Party or KP [Gediminas VAGNORIUS]; Civil Democracy Party or PDP [Algimantas MATULEVICIUS]; Democratic Labor and Unity Party or DDVP [Kristina BRAZAUSKIENE]; Electoral Action of Lithuanian Poles or LLRA [Valdemar TOMASEVSKI]; Emigrants Party or EP [Juozas MURAUSKAS]; Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats or TS-LKD [Andrius KUBILIUS]; Labor Party or DP [Viktor USPASKICH]; Liberal and Center Union or LCS [Arturas MELIANAS]; Liberal Movement or LS or LRLS [Eligijus MASIULIS]; Lithuanian People's Party or LLP [Kazimiera PRUNSKIENE]; Lithuanian People's Party or LZP [Joana SIMANAUSKIENE]; Lithuanian Russian Union or LRS [Sergejus DMITRIJEVAS]; Lithuanian Social Democratic Party or LSDP [Algirdas BUTKEVICIUS]; Nationalist Union or TS [Gintaras SONGAILA]; Order and Justice Party or TT [Rolandas PAKSAS]; Peasant and Greens Union or LVZS [Ramunas KARBAUSKIS]; Republican Party or RP [Valdemaras VALKIUNAS]; Russian Alliance or RA [Tamara LOCHANKINA]; Socialist People's Front or SLF [Algirdas PALECKIS]; Way of Courage or DK [Jonas VARKALA]; YES-Homeland Revival and Perspective or YES Union or TAIP Union or TAIP [Arturas ZUOKAS]; Young Lithuania Party or PJL [Stanislovas BUSKEVICIUS]"
    },
    "international_organization_participation": {
      "text": "Australia Group, BA, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
    },
    "diplomatic_representation_in_the_us": {
      "chief_of_mission": "Ambassador Zygimantas PAVILIONIS",
      "chancery": "2622 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009",
      "telephone": "[1] (202) 234-5860",
      "fax": "[1] (202) 328-0466",
      "consulates_general": "Chicago, New York"
    },
    "diplomatic_representation_from_the_us": {
      "chief_of_mission": "Ambassador Deborah MCCARTHY",
      "embassy": "Akmenu gatve 6, Vilnius, LT-03106",
      "mailing_address": "American Embassy, Akmenu Gatve 6, Vilnius LT-03106",
      "telephone": "[370] (5) 266-5500",
      "fax": "[370] (5) 266-5510"
    },
    "flag_description": {
      "text": "three equal horizontal bands of yellow (top), green, and red; yellow symbolizes golden fields, as well as the sun, light, and goodness; green represents the forests of the countryside, in addition to nature, freedom, and hope; red stands for courage and the blood spilled in defense of the homeland"
    },
    "national_symbols": {
      "text": "mounted knight known as Vytis (the Chaser)"
    },
    "national_anthem": {
      "name": "\"Tautiska giesme\" (The National Song)",
      "lyrics_music": "Vincas KUDIRKA",
      "note": "adopted 1918, restored 1990; the anthem was written in 1898 while Lithuania was a part of Russia; it was banned during the Soviet occupation from 1940 to 1990"
    }
  },
  "econ": {
    "economy_overview": {
      "text": "Lithuania gained membership in the World Trade Organization and joined the EU in May 2004. Despite its EU accession, Lithuania's trade with its Central and Eastern European neighbors, and Russia in particular, accounts for a significant share of total trade. Foreign investment and business support have helped in the transition from the old command economy to a market economy. Lithuania's economy grew on average 8% per year for the four years prior to 2008 driven by exports and domestic demand. Lithuania''s GDP plunged nearly 15% in 2009. The three former Soviet Baltic republics were among the hardest hit by the 2008-09 financial crisis. The government''s efforts to attract foreign investment, to develop export markets, and to pursue broad economic reforms has been key to Lithuania''s quick recovery from a deep recession, making Lithuania one of the fastest growing economies in the EU. Lithuania is committed to meeting the Maastricht criteria to join the euro zone, which the government expects to achieve by 2015. Under the Conservative Party''s leadership, Lithuania raised the monthly minimum wage in 2012 nearly 25% over 2011. Despite government efforts, unemployment - at 13.2% in 2012 - remains high."
    },
    "gdp_purchasing_power_parity": {
      "text": "$66.08 billion (2012 est.); $63.78 billion (2011 est.); $60.24 billion (2010 est.)",
      "note": "data are in 2012 US dollars"
    },
    "gdp_official_exchange_rate": {
      "text": "$42.16 billion (2012 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_real_growth_rate": {
      "text": "3.6% (2012 est.); 5.9% (2011 est.); 1.5% (2010 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_per_capita_ppp": {
      "text": "$22,000 (2012 est.); $21,000 (2011 est.); $18,300 (2010 est.)",
      "note": "data are in 2012 US dollars"
    },
    "gross_national_saving": {
      "text": "15.2% of GDP (2012 est.); 19% of GDP (2011 est.); 19.2% of GDP (2010 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_composition_by_end_use": {
      "household_consumption": "64.2%",
      "government_consumption": "17.7%",
      "investment_in_fixed_capital": "16.7%",
      "investment_in_inventories": "0.3%",
      "exports_of_goods_and_services": "83.9%",
      "imports_of_goods_and_services": "-83.2% (2012 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_composition_by_sector_of_origin": {
      "agriculture": "3.3%",
      "industry": "28.4%",
      "services": "68.4% (2012 est.)"
    },
    "agriculture_products": {
      "text": "grain, potatoes, sugar beets, flax, vegetables; beef, milk, eggs; fish"
    },
    "industries": {
      "text": "metal-cutting machine tools, electric motors, television sets, refrigerators and freezers, petroleum refining, shipbuilding (small ships), furniture making, textiles, food processing, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, optical equipment, electronic components, computers, amber jewelry"
    },
    "industrial_production_growth_rate": {
      "text": "3.7% (2012 est.)"
    },
    "labor_force": {
      "text": "1.474 million (2012 est.)"
    },
    "labor_force_by_occupation": {
      "agriculture": "7.9%",
      "industry": "19.6%",
      "services": "72.5% (2012 est.)"
    },
    "unemployment_rate": {
      "text": "14.9% (2012 est.); 15.4% (2011 est.)"
    },
    "population_below_poverty_line": {
      "text": "4% (2008)"
    },
    "household_income_or_consumption_by_percentage_share": {
      "lowest_10%": "2.6%",
      "highest_10%": "29.1% (2008)"
    },
    "distribution_of_family_income_gini_index": {
      "text": "35.5 (2009); 34 (1999)"
    },
    "budget": {
      "revenues": "$13.06 billion",
      "expenditures": "$14.48 billion (2012 est.)"
    },
    "taxes_and_other_revenues": {
      "text": "31% of GDP (2012 est.)"
    },
    "budget_surplus_+_or_deficit": {
      "text": "-3.4% of GDP (2012 est.)"
    },
    "public_debt": {
      "text": "38.5% of GDP (2012 est.); 39.4% of GDP (2011 est.)",
      "note": "official data; data cover general government debt, and includes debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities, debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment; debt instruments for the social funds are sold at public auctions"
    },
    "fiscal_year": {
      "text": "calendar year"
    },
    "inflation_rate_consumer_prices": {
      "text": "3% (2012 est.); 4.1% (2011 est.)"
    },
    "central_bank_discount_rate": {
      "text": "3% (31 December 2010 est.); 2.06% (31 December 2009 est.)"
    },
    "commercial_bank_prime_lending_rate": {
      "text": "5.8% (31 December 2012 est.); 5.78% (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_narrow_money": {
      "text": "$13.64 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $11.72 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_broad_money": {
      "text": "$19.32 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $18.74 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_domestic_credit": {
      "text": "$22.5 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $22.84 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "market_value_of_publicly_traded_shares": {
      "text": "$4.075 billion (31 December 2011); $5.661 billion (31 December 2010); $4.477 billion (31 December 2009)"
    },
    "current_account_balance": {
      "text": "-$1.053 billion (2012 est.); -$670 million (2011 est.)"
    },
    "exports": {
      "text": "$29.64 billion (2012 est.); $28.1 billion (2011 est.)"
    },
    "exports_commodities": {
      "text": "mineral products, machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles , foodstuffs, plastics"
    },
    "exports_partners": {
      "text": "Russia 19%, Latvia 11%, Estonia 7.9%, Germany 7.9%, UK 6.4%, Poland 6.1%, Netherlands 5.9%, Belarus 4.5% (2012)"
    },
    "imports": {
      "text": "$32.01 billion (2012 est.); $30.2 billion (2011 est.)"
    },
    "imports_commodities": {
      "text": "mineral products, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, chemicals, textiles and clothing, metals"
    },
    "imports_partners": {
      "text": "Russia 32.5%, Germany 9.8%, Poland 9.8%, Latvia 6.1%, Netherlands 5.5% (2012)"
    },
    "reserves_of_foreign_exchange_and_gold": {
      "text": "$10.23 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $8.21 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "debt_external": {
      "text": "$32.84 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $31.01 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_direct_foreign_investment_at_home": {
      "text": "$15.71 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $14.81 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_direct_foreign_investment_abroad": {
      "text": "$2.581 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $2.281 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "exchange_rates": {
      "text": "litai (LTL) per US dollar -; 2.686 (2012 est.); 2.481 (2011 est.); 2.6063 (2010 est.); 2.4787 (2009); 2.3251 (2008)"
    }
  },
  "energy": {
    "electricity_production": {
      "text": "12.27 billion kWh (2012 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_consumption": {
      "text": "10.3 billion kWh (2012 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_exports": {
      "text": "186 million kWh (2012 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_imports": {
      "text": "1.17 billion kWh (2012 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_installed_generating_capacity": {
      "text": "3.82 million kW (2011 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_fossil_fuels": {
      "text": "53.8% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_nuclear_fuels": {
      "text": "25.2% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_hydroelectric_plants": {
      "text": "2.4% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_other_renewable_sources": {
      "text": "2.4% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_production": {
      "text": "2,000 bbl/day (2011 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_exports": {
      "text": "2,260 bbl/day (2009 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_imports": {
      "text": "168,300 bbl/day (2009 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_proved_reserves": {
      "text": "12 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_production": {
      "text": "202,600 bbl/day (2008 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_consumption": {
      "text": "70,390 bbl/day (2011 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_exports": {
      "text": "149,900 bbl/day (2008 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_imports": {
      "text": "15,670 bbl/day (2008 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_production": {
      "text": "0 cu m (2012 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_consumption": {
      "text": "3.3 billion cu m (2012 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_exports": {
      "text": "0 cu m (2012 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_imports": {
      "text": "3.1 billion cu m (2010 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_proved_reserves": {
      "text": "0 cu m (1 January 2012 est.)"
    },
    "carbon_dioxide_emissions_from_consumption_of_energy": {
      "text": "15.98 million Mt (2010 est.)"
    }
  },
  "comm": {
    "telephones_main_lines_in_use": {
      "text": "723,000 (2011)"
    },
    "telephones_mobile_cellular": {
      "text": "5.004 million (2011)"
    },
    "telephone_system": {
      "general_assessment": "adequate; being modernized to provide improved international capability and better residential access",
      "domestic": "rapid expansion of mobile-cellular services has resulted in a steady decline in the number of fixed-line connections; mobile-cellular teledensity stands at about 140 per 100 persons",
      "international": "country code - 370; major international connections to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite; landline connections to Latvia and Poland (2010)"
    },
    "broadcast_media": {
      "text": "public broadcaster operates 3 channels with the third channel - a satellite channel - introduced in 2007; various privately owned commercial TV broadcasters operate national and multiple regional channels; many privately owned local TV stations; multi-channel cable and satellite TV services available; publicly owned broadcaster operates 3 radio networks; many privately owned commercial broadcasters, many with repeater stations in various regions throughout the country (2007)"
    },
    "internet_country_code": {
      "text": ".lt"
    },
    "internet_hosts": {
      "text": "1.205 million (2012)"
    },
    "internet_users": {
      "text": "1.964 million (2009)"
    }
  },
  "trans": {
    "airports": {
      "text": "61 (2013)"
    },
    "airports_with_paved_runways": {
      "total": "22",
      "over_3_047_m": "3",
      "2_438_to_3_047_m": "1",
      "1_524_to_2_437_m": "7",
      "914_to_1_523_m": "2",
      "under_914_m": "9 (2013)"
    },
    "airports_with_unpaved_runways": {
      "total": "39",
      "over_3_047_m": "1",
      "914_to_1_523_m": "2",
      "under_914_m": "36 (2013)"
    },
    "pipelines": {
      "text": "gas 1,921 km; refined products 121 km (2013)"
    },
    "railways": {
      "total": "1,767 km",
      "broad_gauge": "1,745 km 1.524-m gauge (122 km electrified)",
      "standard_gauge": "22 km 1.435-m gauge (2011)"
    },
    "roadways": {
      "total": "82,131 km",
      "paved": "72,048 km (includes 309 km of expressways)",
      "unpaved": "10,083 km (2010)"
    },
    "waterways": {
      "text": "441 km (navigable year round) (2007)"
    },
    "merchant_marine": {
      "total": "38",
      "by_type": "cargo 20, container 1, passenger/cargo 6, refrigerated cargo 9, roll on/roll off 2",
      "foreign_owned": "8 (Denmark 8)",
      "registered_in_other_countries": "22 (Antigua and Barbuda 3, Belize 1, Comoros 1, Cook Islands 1, Norway 1, Panama 3, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 9, unknown 3) (2010)"
    },
    "ports_and_terminals": {
      "text": "Klaipeda",
      "oil_terminals": "Butinge oil terminal"
    }
  },
  "military": {
    "military_branches": {
      "text": "Lithuanian Armed Forces (Lietuvos Ginkluotosios Pajegos): Land Forces (Sausumos Pajegos), Naval Forces (Karines Juru Pajegos), Air Forces (Karines Oro Pajegos) (2013)"
    },
    "military_service_age_and_obligation": {
      "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; service obligation 1 year; Lithuania converted to a professional military in the fall of 2008, although the decision continues under judicial review (2012)"
    },
    "manpower_available_for_military_service": {
      "males_age_16_49": "890,074",
      "females_age_16_49": "875,780 (2010 est.)"
    },
    "manpower_fit_for_military_service": {
      "males_age_16_49": "669,111",
      "females_age_16_49": "724,803 (2010 est.)"
    },
    "manpower_reaching_militarily_significant_age_annually": {
      "male": "20,425",
      "female": "19,527 (2010 est.)"
    },
    "military_expenditures": {
      "text": "0.9% of GDP (2007 est.)"
    }
  },
  "issues": {
    "disputes_international": {
      "text": "Lithuania and Russia committed to demarcating their boundary in 2006 in accordance with the land and maritime treaty ratified by Russia in May 2003 and by Lithuania in 1999; Lithuania operates a simplified transit regime for Russian nationals traveling from the Kaliningrad coastal exclave into Russia, while still conforming, as a EU member state having an external border with a non-EU member, to strict Schengen border rules; boundary demarcated with Latvia and Lithuania; as of January 2007, ground demarcation of the boundary with Belarus was complete and mapped with final ratification documents in preparation"
    },
    "refugees_and_internally_displaced_persons": {
      "stateless_persons": "4,130 (2012)"
    },
    "illicit_drugs": {
      "text": "transshipment and destination point for cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, and opiates from Southwest Asia, Latin America, Western Europe, and neighboring Baltic countries; growing production of high-quality amphetamines, but limited production of cannabis, methamphetamines; susceptible to money laundering despite changes to banking legislation"
    }
  }
}