Health in Sostinės regionas, Lithuania: official figures
Life expectancy at birth was 78 years in 2024 (77.5 for Lithuania).
What do people die of in the Capital Region?
The age-standardised death rate from heart and circulatory diseases in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas) was 577 per 100,000 in 2025, lower than in the Central and Western Lithuania Region (Lithuania: 630).
Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copyWhat is the suicide rate in the Capital Region?
The suicide rate in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas) was 12.7 per 100,000 in 2025 (age-standardised), lower than in the Central and Western Lithuania Region; the Lithuanian rate was 17.3.
Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copyWhat is life expectancy for men and women in Sostinės regionas?
Women in Sostinės regionas could expect to live to 81.6 and men to 73.8 at 2024 death rates, a gap of 7.8 years.
Source: Eurostat · saved copyHow long do people live after 65 in Sostinės regionas?
People who reached 65 could expect 18.5 more years of life in 2024 (Lithuania: 18.3).
Source: Eurostat · saved copyMore figures
- Deaths from circulatory diseases in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas) fell from 945 to 577 per 100,000 between 2015 and 2025 (age-standardised). Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copy
- Cancer caused 241 deaths per 100,000 residents of the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas) in 2025 after adjusting for age, lower than in the Central and Western Lithuania Region (Lithuania: 254). Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copy
- External causes such as accidents, poisoning and violence killed 68 people per 100,000 in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas) in 2025: 115 per 100,000 men and 33 per 100,000 women. Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copy
- Digestive diseases caused 68 deaths per 100,000 people in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas) in 2025 (age-standardised), and municipalities there spent €39.74 million on health. Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copy
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Sources
- Eurostat: Eurostat dataset demo_r_mlifexp: Life expectancy at birth, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 62800ed9bbb3…)
- Eurostat: Eurostat dataset demo_r_mlifexp: Life expectancy by age, sex and NUTS 2 region, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 f5a2a33406b9…)
- State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal: Standardised mortality by cause of death per 100 000 population, by administrative territory and sex (S3R0275_M9070353), read 24 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 5404d8e326a2…)
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