Population of Lithuania 1950-2020, by gender

This statistic shows the total male and female population of Lithuania from 1950 to 2020. From the graph we can see that there is a relatively large difference in the number of males and females, particularly when put in context with the total overall population. The number of women exceeds the number of men by over 260 thousand in 1950, which is one of the long-term effects of the Second World War. During the war, Lithuania lost over 14 percent of its overall population, and the number of women was already higher than men before this, however the war caused this gap in population to widen much further. From 1950 onwards both male and female populations grow, and by 1990 the gap has shrunk down to 200 thousand people. In 1990 Lithuania gained it's independence from the Soviet Union, and from this point both populations begin to decline, falling to 1.26 million men in 2020, and 1.46 million women, with a difference of 200 thousand.