Vilnius|Lithuania
Statistical Data
Google entries for Vilnius (lithunian), Wilna (german), Wilno (polish), Вильна/Wilna (russian), Вільня/Wilnja (white russian), ווילנע/Wilne (jiddish) 85.400.000
Google entries per inhabitant 149
Founding 1323
Area (City) 401 km²
Population 574.221 (2017, = ca. 20 % of Lithunia's population
Population density 1.432 inhabitants per km²
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius
Klimate
Max. temperature Ø (°C) 10,2
Min. temperature Ø (°C) 2,4
Rainfall/year (mm) 683
Rainfall / days 122
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius
POPULATION DEVELOPMENT
1897 154.532
1931 196.345
1959 236.100
2001 553.904
2012 535.631
2017 574.221
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius#Einwohner
Population loss because of emigration and death (Lithunia)
Lithunian emigrants since 1990 679.182
Fatalities 166.092
Population loss since 1990 845.000 (= 23% of the population)
http://123.emn.lt/en/#chart-14-desc
Where do Lithunian emigrate to ? (Lithunia, Top 5, 2016)
UK 23.266
Ireland 4.208
Norwey 3.936
Germany 3.823
Russia 1.704
http://123.emn.lt/en/#chart-9-desc
Asylum in Lithunia (2016)
Asylum applications 425
Confirmations 195
Therof status as refugee 181
subsidiary protection status 14
http://123.emn.lt/en/#chart-9-desc
Ethnic Composition (Vilnius)
Lithunians Polish Russian Jews White Russian Others
1897 2,0 % 30,1 % 20,0 % 40,0 % 4,2 % 6,9 %
1931 0,8 % 65,5 % 3,8 % 27,8 % 0,9 % 2,1 %
1959 34,0 % 20,0 % 29,0 % 7,0 % 6,0 % n.n.
2012 63,2 % 16,5 % 12,0 % n.n. 3,5 % 4,8 %
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius#Einwohner
Gender Relation / district (est. 2017)
Men 367.972
Women 437.201
Sex ratio 1.188 women / 1000 men
https://www.citypopulation.de/php/lithuania-admin.php?adm1id=10
Age groups / district (est. 2017)
0-14 years 128,518 (16,0%)
15-64 years 542,107 (67,3%)
>65 years 134,548 (16,7%)
https://www.citypopulation.de/php/lithuania-admin.php?adm1id=10
Religions
Katholics 80,6%
Orthodoxe 8,5%
Other 3,0%
none 7,9%
https://www.citypopulation.de/php/lithuania-admin.php?adm1id=10
Jews in Wilna (Jerusalem of the North)
Jewish. population before World War II 45%
Synagogs before World War II 105
Today 1
Daily jewish newspapers before World War II 6
Jews in Lithunia before World War II ca. 240.000
Jews today in Lithunia ca. 6.500
Killed Jews in the Holocaust ca. 90%
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/vilnius-vilna-lithuania-jewish-history-tour
For centuries, the city of Vilna (today Vilnius) was the center of Jewish life in what was then known as Polish-Lithuania. By the turn of the 20th century, the Lithuanian capital boasted over 100 synagogues, an array of Jewish newspapers, and scores of other cultural and religious institutions. [...]
Today, after the Holocaust, little is left of that historic Jewish community, which once comprised half of Vilna’s population, but now constitutes less than 1 percent of it. One remaining vestige of the city’s illustrious past, however, is its old Jewish cemetery, in which “a galaxy of eminent European rabbinic scholars and authors” were buried, as one leading scholar put it. Yet compounding tragedy upon tragedy, the Lithuanian government, reportedly with European Union funding, is preparing to build a $25 million convention center on the site. [...]
Because of the Holocaust and the murder of around 99% of Vilna’s Jewry, the buried people, whose families paid honestly over centuries for their perpetual place of rest, have no local descendants to take up their cause,” she (i.e. Vilna resident Ruta Bloshtein) continued. “The decision to mock the memory of Vilna Jewry with a convention center in the middle of the city’s medieval Jewish cemetery would be a grave error with unfortunate consequences, making for a blot on this city’s status for centuries to come. By contrast, moving the convention center project to another site and preserving with respect the old Jewish cemetery at Piramónt would bring great honor to modern democratic, EU member Lithuania. [...]
Leiman continued, “there’s a much larger issue at stake here, and that is whether any government can at will destroy a Jewish cemetery. Once you allow this in Vilna—and there are those who allowed it—it’s going to happen everywhere. Every government’s going to say, ‘Well, not only did they do it, they got paid by the E.U. to do it!’ Anytime they want to, they can express the law of eminent domain and even destroy Jewish cemeteries. They’re not going to destroy a Christian cemetery, but Jewish cemeteries, why not? Who’s going to complain? So the stakes are very high. What’s at stake is really the future of all Jewish cemeteries in Europe in particular, or anywhere where the Jewish population dwindles and the government feels it can just walk in and do whatever it wants.”
“It shouldn’t happen; it shouldn’t be done“
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/221693/lithuania-is-building-a-convention-center-over-vilnas-jewish-cemetery-heres-how-you-can-protest
ECONOMY
Macro economical Indicators (Lithunia, 2017)
GDP 40 Mrd. EUR
GDP per Capita (Vilnius County, 2016) 20.000 €
GDP per Capita (Litauen, 2016) 13.500 €
Economic growth 2,5%
Inflation rate 1,5%
Unemployment rate 7,7%
According to Statistics Lithuania, Vilnius County accounted for about 40.4% of Lithuania’s GDP in 2015. [...] Vilnius is ranked first in Lithuania in terms of foreign direct investment. Overall 70.6% of foreign investment in Lithuania was concentrated in Vilnius County at the end of 2015.
https://www.pwc.com/lt/en/assets/publications/business guide 2017.pdf
http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=135359
Foreign investments (FI) in long term goods as eg. machines, buildings or computer systems (Lithunia)
2010 2015 2016
FI-projects 11 28 36
Investments 45,8 Mill.€ 126 Mill.€ 135,2 Mill. €
Created jobs (for more than 3 years) 991 2.370 3.716
https://ukmin.lrv.lt/en/news/2016-a-record-breaking-year-for-invest-lithuania-as-production-investments-boom
Created Jobs (for more than 3 years) per country of investors (Lithunia, 2016)
Sweden 1.400
Germany 750
Danmark 300
Finland 300
http://bnn-news.com/lithuania-sees-more-foreign-investments-yet-they-bypass-regions-159564
Monthly average income for employees within the baltic states
per sector (2016, in EUR)
Estonia Latvia Lithunia
Logistics 1.433 1.071 1.049
Construction 1.410 963 987
Industry 1.395 949 975
Administration 1.223 883 868
Finance 2.433 2.161 1.889
IT 2.352 1.618 1.695
All Sectors 1.437 1.016 1.001
(In comparison: all Swedish Sectors ca. 5.000 €)
https://www.business-sweden.se/globalassets/baltic-states-fact-sheet2017-may.pdf
average monthly rent for an office in a top-neighbourhood (EUR/qm)
Kaunas 12
Vilnius 15
Stockholm 56
Central London 158
http://www.investlithuania.com/gbs-report-2017/
Shared Service Center
Shared Service Center (SSC) in Lithunia (2017) 60
thereof in Vilnius 47 (thereof 6 Center in Vilnius and Kaunas)
Employed 13.200
http://www.investlithuania.com/gbs-report-2017/
Employees in SCC’s per mother company
Skandinavia 41%
USA 32%
UK 13%
Luxemburg 6%
Germany 4%
The Netherland 3%
others 2%
http://www.investlithuania.com/gbs-report-2017/
SCC’s per trade (selection)
IT 33%
Banks, insurances
Financial services 25%
Production and logistics 18%
Client Contakt 10%
http://www.investlithuania.com/gbs-report-2017/
Education level of the employees in SCC’s
Secondary School 6%
Bachelor 68%
Master 26%
PHD 1%
http://www.investlithuania.com/gbs-report-2017/
Average income in the SCC’s
Non-It IT
Junior specialist 869 987
(0-1 year of work experience)
Mid-level-Specialist 1.282 1.629
(1-3 years of work experience)
Senior-specialist 1.675 2.254
(3+ years of work experience)
http://www.investlithuania.com/gbs-report-2017/
Income and wages
Minimum wage (Lithunia) 380 EUR/mtl.
https://www.swedbank-research.com/english/lithuanian_economy/2017/may/newsletter_income_and_income_inequality.pdf
Gross income per year (2015, in EUR) per Sectors
Industrial worker Industrial skilled worker
Berlin 22.095 35.777
Vilnius 4.574 16.940
Peking 4.951 5.727
Call Center Agent Nurse
Berlin 17.866 31.689
Vilnius 6.016 7.527
Peking 3.400 9.046
Sales person Primary school teacher
Berlin 21.802 49.878
Vilnius 5.260 8.932
Peking 5.727 7.993
https://www.ubs.com/microsites/prices-earnings/prices-earnings.html
LIVING EXPENSES
Necessary number of working hours required for the purchase of (2015)…
1 Big Mac/min. 29
1kg bread/min. 19
kg rice/min. 17
1 iPhone 6 16GB / hours 131,6
https://www.ubs.com/microsites/prices-earnings/prices-earnings.html
Kosts of a consumer basket (2015) of 122 goods and services.
According to the monthly expenses of a european family of 3
Berlin 1.958
Vilnius 1.574
Zurich 3.360
https://www.ubs.com/microsites/prices-earnings/prices-earnings.html
Consumer basket of 39 articles of food (2015) for a family of 3 (in EUR)
world wider average price 370
Berlin 387
Vilnius 249
Zürich 682
https://www.ubs.com/microsites/prices-earnings/prices-earnings.html
Prices (in EUR)
12 eggs 1,67,-
1 kg tomatos 2,01,-
Bread for 2 people (1 day) 0,80,-
0,5 l beer in the super market 1,09,-
1 l milk 0,89,-
Cleaning woman (1 h) 8,-
Monthly rent for a 85 qm-flat
in a average neighbourhood501,-
1 l petrol 1,11,-
Monthly ticket for public transport 29,-
Cab drive (8 Km) 7,-
https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/berlin/vilnius
