Health in Lithuania

As of 2023 Lithuanian life expectancy at birth was 77.43 years (72.86 years for males and 81.71 years for females) and the infant mortality rate was 2.8 per 1,000 live births. Both indicators remain below the EU and OECD average.

cardiovascular disease were the leading cause of death in 2023 (52.1%) accounting for 52.1% of all deaths, followed by cancers (21%) and external causes (6.1%). Taken together, these categories represent approximately four-fifths of all mortality. The mortality rate from external causes among males is the highest in the European Union. Especially the suicide rates in Lithuania remain the largest in whole of Europe, the EU, and at times had been the worst in the OECD, comparing among worst in the world nations like South Korea, South Africa, Uruguay, etc. It has been a subject of intense research, especially after a dramatic rise of losses of life in the 1990s. The suicide rate has been constantly decreasing since and, as of 2023, is reported at 1.95 per 10,000 people.

In 2018, Lithuania ranked 28th in Europe in the Euro health consumer index, which assesses healthcare systems based on waiting times, outcomes, and other indicators. Healthcare institutions are the top employers in the country, but still remain overstretched, with long wait times and insufficient funding for specialists and medicine for ever increasing traffic of patients and numbers of intervention requiring cases. Roughly one-third of all the care is privately funded (by the patients themselves or on their behalf), which is strongly above the EU average of twenty percent.