Country profile – Lithuania. Policies for longer working lives and two good practices
This is the sixth in a series of country reports that present an overview of the national policies regarding prolonging working life in the countries involved in the BSLF Sustainable Working Life Project.
This country profile provides information about key national policies that focus on older workers (55+), prolonging working life and active ageing through access to training, lifelong learning. It also provides an analysis of two good practices related to prolonging working life in Lithuania. Lithuania could be characterised as a country with a changing population structure: decreasing number of children and increasing number of older people, declining of population due to migration and low birth rate. According to Eurostat, the old age dependency ratio has dramatically increased in Lithuania during the last decade.