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Table 2.1

Selected indicators 1970–2011

Indicators

Lithuania

Portugal

Switzerland

1970

1990

2011

1970

1990

2011

1970

1990

2011

Population

a

3.140 m

3.698 m

3.028 m

8.681 m

9.983 m

10.588 m

6.181 m

6.716 m

7.912 m

GDP per capita (current PPP$)

b

• 
  

4262

c

22,743

• 
  

12,782

26,588

• 
  

30,143

54,534

Fertility rate (children born/woman)

d

2.40

2.03

1.55

3.01

1.56

1.35

2.10

1.58

1.52

Births outside marriage (share of total live births)

e

3.7%

7.0%

27.7%

7.3%

14.7%

42.8%

3.8%

6.1%

19.3%

Age of women at first childbirth

f

• 
  

23.2

27.0

25.7

29.2

• 
  

28.1

30.6

Crude marriage rate (per 1000)

g

9.5

9.8

6.3

9.4

7.2

3.4

7.6

6.9

5.3

Crude divorce rate (per 1000)

h

2.2

3.4

3.4

0.1

0.9

2.5

1.0

2.0

2.2

Women employment rate (percentage)

i

• 
  


• 
  

62.2%

• 
  


• 
  

64.8%

• 
  


• 
  

75.6%

Women part-time employment (percentage)

j

• 
  


• 
  

8.3%

• 
  


• 
  

10.1%

• 
  


• 
  

35.0%

Dual-earner couples (%) (child <6 years)

k

• 
  


• 
  


• 
  


• 
  


• 
  

93%

• 
  


• 
  

16%

Unemployment rate (yearly average)

l

• 
  

14.6%

15.4%

• 
  

4.3%

12.9%

• 
  

0.5%

4.1%

Expenditure on social protection (as % of GDP)

m

• 
  


• 
  

16.2%

• 
  

12.4%

24.2%

• 
  

12.8%

23.0%

Upper secondary attainment shares

n

23.1%

56.4%

o

69.9%

3.2%

7.0%

18.0%

51.0%

54.6%

48.3%

aEurostat. Population change – Demographic balance and crude rates at national level [demo_gind]. Average populationbGDP per capita by country 1980–2014. Available in web-page:

https://knoema.com/pjeqzh/

gdp-per-capita-by-country-1980-2014cMain macroeconomics indicators of Lithuania. Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, 1997, p. 32. Note: Instead of 1990, data on 1993 presented

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