Health in Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas, Lithuania: official figures
Life expectancy at birth was 77.2 years in 2024 (77.5 for Lithuania).
What do people die of in Central and Western Lithuania?
Circulatory diseases killed 648 people per 100,000 (age-standardised) in the Central and Western Lithuania Region in 2025, higher than in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas); the national rate was 630.
Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copyWhat is the suicide rate in Central and Western Lithuania?
The suicide rate in the Central and Western Lithuania Region was 19.3 per 100,000 in 2025 (age-standardised), higher than in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas); 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 Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas?
Women in Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas could expect to live to 81.6 and men to 72.7 at 2024 death rates, a gap of 8.9 years.
Source: Eurostat · saved copyHow long do people live after 65 in Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas?
People who reached 65 could expect 18.2 more years of life in 2024 (Lithuania: 18.3).
Source: Eurostat · saved copyMore figures
- Deaths from circulatory diseases in the Central and Western Lithuania Region fell from 958 to 648 per 100,000 between 2015 and 2025 (age-standardised). Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copy
- Cancer caused 259 deaths per 100,000 residents of the Central and Western Lithuania Region in 2025 after adjusting for age, higher than in the Capital Region (Sostinės regionas) (Lithuania: 254). Source: State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), Official Statistics Portal · saved copy
- External causes such as accidents, poisoning and violence killed 73 people per 100,000 in the Central and Western Lithuania Region in 2025: 121 per 100,000 men and 34 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 Central and Western Lithuania Region in 2025 (age-standardised), and municipalities there spent €86.69 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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