Baltic overview

Compare Baltic public budgets quickly

Start with the Baltic snapshot workbench, then move into country pages or the all-years overview without leaving the main reading flow.

Executed Baltic snapshots for 2019

The snapshot workbench keeps the selected stage explicit while showing every metric in one family at once. With 3 or fewer visible countries, the full snapshot set stays visible below.

Family

5 metrics

Focus metric

All fiscal metrics

Balance (% GDP)Executed stage2019Shared frame

Net lending/borrowing as a share of GDP for the selected government scope.

The chart shows the core metrics for the selected family inside one grouped view. The focus metric below drives the league table and the selected-year snapshots. Countries without a selected-stage topline stay visible in coverage, but they do not enter metric rankings.

Fiscal stance5 metrics1/3 countries charted

Snapshot league table

Rows rank the visible Baltic countries on the active executed metric for 2019. With 3 rows, the snapshot cards below show every visible country instead of pinning one.

Rank	Country	2019	1Y Δ	3Y Δ
1	Latvia	1.1%	N/A	N/A	Overview
N/A	Estonia	N/A	N/A	N/A	Overview
N/A	Lithuania	N/A	N/A	N/A	Overview

Selected-year snapshots

With 3 or fewer visible countries, every selected-year snapshot stays on screen at once.

Latvia

ComparableWithin comparable windowexecutedState budgetExecution detail through 2026

Balance % GDP

1.1%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

32%

Revenue % GDP

33.1%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

2.7%

GDP

€29.6K

Nominal topline snapshot

Revenue

€9.8B

Expenditure

€9.5B

Balance

€331M

Financing

-€1.1B

Open country Latvia 2019 snapshot Latvia 2019 policy composition

Estonia

Coverage pendingNo source-backed toplineExecution detail through 2025Macro frame

Balance % GDP

-0.1%

Debt % GDP

Expenditure % GDP

39.1%

Revenue % GDP

39%

Interest burden

Inflation rate

2.3%

GDP

€28.5K

Nominal macro frame

Revenue

€11.1K

Expenditure

€11.1K

Balance

-€31

Debt

€2.6K

Open country Estonia 2019 snapshot Estonia 2019 policy composition

Lithuania

Coverage pendingNo source-backed toplineExecution detail through 2025Macro frame

Balance % GDP

0.4%

Debt % GDP

35.6%

Expenditure % GDP

34.6%

Revenue % GDP

35.1%

Interest burden

0.9%

Inflation rate

2.2%

GDP

€49.2K

Nominal macro frame

Revenue

€17.3K

Expenditure

€17.1K

Balance

€203

Debt

€17.5K

Open country Lithuania 2019 snapshot Lithuania 2019 policy composition

Revenue composition

Comparable Eurostat general-government revenue mix for the selected year. With 3 or fewer visible countries, all country values stay visible instead of pinning one.

General government2019 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % revenue for 2019.

LVEELT

Country values by component

Component	LV	EE	LT
VAT	87.9%	79.6%	78.4%
Personal income tax	65.5%	N/A	71.8%
Corporate income tax	6%	3%	15.4%
Social contributions	101.4%	106.7%	99.7%
Other revenue	0%	0%	0%

Expenditure composition

Comparable Eurostat general-government expenditure mix for the selected year. With 3 or fewer visible countries, all country values stay visible instead of pinning one.

General government2019 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % expenditure for 2019.

LVEELT

Country values by component

Component	LV	EE	LT
Compensation	94.5%	97.2%	97.8%
Social benefits	93.6%	108.6%	115.5%
Intermediate consumption	55.4%	58.4%	41.3%
Subsidies	7.5%	7.2%	3.8%
Property income / interest	6.4%	0.3%	9%
Gross capital formation	42.4%	46.8%	31.5%
Capital transfers	0.7%	3%	2.8%
Other current transfers	21.9%	15.7%	15.3%
Other expenditure	0%	0%	0%

Policy composition for 2019

This table stays exact to the selected year. If a country has no usable policy-composition slice in that year, it shows as unavailable instead of falling back to a different year.

% of total expenditureGeneral government3/3 countries charted

Selected countries are plotted together so each COFOG lane stays comparable inside one chart before you drop into country-specific cards.

🇱🇻 Latvia🇪🇪 Estonia🇱🇹 Lithuania

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Country
Latvia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Latvia 2019 policy composition	31.3%	10.9%	15%	13.4%	5%	10.6%
Estonia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Estonia 2019 policy composition	32.5%	14.2%	15.2%	11.6%	5.3%	8.9%
Lithuania Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Lithuania 2019 policy composition	38.4%	14.5%	13.2%	8.9%	4.7%	10%

Groups inside Social protection

Pin a policy-composition division above to inspect its group breakdown for 2019. This drilldown stays on the same selected-year lane instead of switching to a different source or year.

COFOG 103/3 countries with group detail

% of total expenditureGeneral government3/3 countries charted

Selected countries are plotted together so the COFOG groups inside Social protection stay comparable before you drop into the detailed table.

🇱🇻 Latvia🇪🇪 Estonia🇱🇹 Lithuania

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Country	10.1 Sickness and disability	10.2 Old age	10.3 Survivors	10.4 Family and children	10.5 Unemployment	10.6 Housing	10.7 Social exclusion n.e.c.	10.8 R&D Social protection	10.9 Social protection n.e.c.
Latvia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Latvia 2019 policy composition	20%	57.6%	1.6%	10.4%	4%	0.8%	3.2%	0%	2.4%
Estonia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Estonia 2019 policy composition	16.4%	54.7%	0.8%	20.3%	4.7%	0%	1.6%	0%	1.6%
Lithuania Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Lithuania 2019 policy composition	28.9%	45.9%	2.2%	12.6%	5.2%	0.7%	3%	0%	1.5%

Coverage & methodology

This surface stays stage-aware. Ranking uses source-backed topline snapshots for the active stage; the revenue and expenditure composition panels use comparable Eurostat general-government slices for the same selected year.

References & sources

Direct links to the official pages and files behind the data shown on this page.