Dentists — Health and social employment in Lithuania
Lithuania: Dentists — Health and social employment was 1.44 Per 1 000 inhabitants in 2025. ▲ Rising
Dentists — Health and social employment in Lithuania, 2001–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Per 1 000 inhabitants.
Analysis
Lithuania recorded 1.44 Per 1 000 inhabitants for dentists — health and social employment in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.4% on the previous year and up 14.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dentists — health and social employment in Lithuania peaked at 1.52 Per 1 000 inhabitants in 2023 and was at its lowest, 0.8 Per 1 000 inhabitants, in 2001.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 18 years of available data.
Dentists — Health and social employment in Lithuania, year by year
| Year | Per 1 000 inhabitants | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 0.8 Per 1 000 inhabitants | — |
| 2002 | 0.81 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +1.3% |
| 2003 | 0.88 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +8.6% |
| 2011 | 1.09 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +23.9% |
| 2012 | 1.15 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +5.5% |
| 2013 | 1.22 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +6.1% |
| 2014 | 1.21 Per 1 000 inhabitants | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 1.26 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +4.1% |
| 2016 | 1.32 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +4.8% |
| 2017 | 1.36 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +3.0% |
| 2018 | 1.39 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 1.41 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 1.44 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +2.1% |
| 2021 | 1.48 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +2.8% |
| 2022 | 1.51 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +2.0% |
| 2023 | 1.52 Per 1 000 inhabitants | +0.7% |
| 2024 | 1.49 Per 1 000 inhabitants | -2.0% |
| 2025 | 1.44 Per 1 000 inhabitants | -3.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.83 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 0.8 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 0.88 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 3 |
| 2010s | 1.27 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 1.09 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 1.41 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 9 |
| 2020s | 1.48 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 1.44 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 1.52 Per 1 000 inhabitants | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is dentists — health and social employment in Lithuania?
- Dentists — health and social employment in Lithuania was 1.44 Per 1 000 inhabitants in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest dentists — health and social employment recorded in Lithuania?
- The highest recorded value was 1.52 Per 1 000 inhabitants in 2023.
- What is the lowest dentists — health and social employment recorded in Lithuania?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.8 Per 1 000 inhabitants in 2001.
- How does Lithuania rank for dentists — health and social employment?
- Lithuania ranks 2nd out of 5 groups with data for 2025.
- Is dentists — health and social employment rising or falling in Lithuania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lithuania data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Dentists — Health and social employment. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
This dataset provides data on the number of dentists by status (ie. practising dentists, professionally active dentists, and dentists licenced to practice). Practising dentists provide services for patients. They include stomatologists, dental and maxillofacial surgeons. Professionally active dentists are practising dentists and other dentists for whom their education in dentistry / stomatology is a prerequisite for the execution of the job. Dentists licensed to practice include practising and other (non-practising) dentists, who are registered and entitled to practice as healthcare professionals in the field of dentistry. They include stomatologists, dental and maxillofacial surgeons. Please refer to the Sources and Methods for detailed country-specific information.