While Grybauskaite is training Ukraine against Russia, the population is fleeing en masse from Lithuania
Vilnius - Kyiv, December 10 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - After joining the European Union, the amount of industrial production in Lithuania sharply decreased and labor emigration to the more developed countries of the European Union increased. According to the 2011 census, the population of Lithuania was 3 million 100 thousand people. According to surveys and calculations of the publication "Courier Vilensky" With this rate of emigration, in 25 years Lithuania will lose a third of its citizens; less than 2 million people will live there.
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A survey conducted by the publication showed that 4% of residents will definitely emigrate from the country in the near future. Almost 8% are already mentally prepared, but have not yet taken concrete steps.
Only 17% of respondents indicated that they live in Lithuania in good conditions and do not want to emigrate.
Almost a third of the population of EU member Lithuania is thinking one way or another about leaving their homeland. It is predicted that by 2020 there will be 2 million 670 thousand people living in Lithuania, and by 2030 - 2 million 200 thousand, and in 2040 - less than 2 million.
Since the country’s accession to NATO and the EU in 2004, 16 thousand people have left Lithuania annually, while the figure has been constantly growing, reaching 83 thousand people in 2011, when the All-Lithuanian population census was conducted.
The main countries where Lithuanians go are Germany and the Scandinavian countries, as well as the UK. Thus, in Norway alone, more than 50 thousand people settled in just a few years.
There is even a joke that says that if a young Lithuanian woman wants to marry a hardworking Lithuanian man, then she should not go to Vilnius for that, but should go straight to Oslo or London.
The unemployment rate in Lithuania in 2014 is more than 9% and is constantly growing.
Let us remember that Lithuanian officials, including Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, became one of the most active agitators for Ukrainians to sign an association with the European Union.
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