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.

Approved Baltic snapshots for 2021

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)Approved stage2021Shared 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 metrics2/3 countries charted

Snapshot league table

Rows rank the visible Baltic countries on the active approved metric for 2021. With 3 rows, the snapshot cards below show every visible country instead of pinning one.

Rank	Country	2021	1Y Δ	3Y Δ
1	Latvia	-3.7%	-3.3%	-2.9%	Overview
2	Lithuania	-25.9%	2.5%	11%	Overview
N/A	Estonia	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 windowApproved stageState budgetExecution detail through 2026

Balance % GDP

-3.7%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

33.3%

Revenue % GDP

29.7%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

3.2%

GDP

€32.3K

Nominal topline snapshot

Revenue

€9.6B

Expenditure

€10.8B

Balance

-€1.2B

Financing

€1.2B

Open country Latvia 2021 snapshot Latvia 2021 policy composition

Estonia

Coverage pendingNo source-backed toplineExecution detail through 2025Macro frame

Balance % GDP

-2.5%

Debt % GDP

18.4%

Expenditure % GDP

42.1%

Revenue % GDP

39.6%

Interest burden

0.1%

Inflation rate

4.5%

GDP

€31.5K

Nominal macro frame

Revenue

€12.4K

Expenditure

€13.2K

Balance

-€796

Debt

€5.8K

Open country Estonia 2021 snapshot Estonia 2021 policy composition

Lithuania

ComparableWithin comparable windowApproved stageState budgetExecution detail through 2025

Balance % GDP

-25.9%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

40.7%

Revenue % GDP

14.8%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

4.6%

GDP

€56.7K

Nominal topline snapshot

Revenue

€8.4B

Expenditure

€23.1B

Balance

-€14.7B

Financing

N/A

Open country Lithuania 2021 snapshot Lithuania 2021 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 government2021 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % revenue for 2021.

LVEELT

Country values by component

Component	LV	EE	LT
VAT	87.2%	76.1%	81.9%
Personal income tax	60.4%	N/A	73.6%
Corporate income tax	10.2%	2.5%	20.3%
Social contributions	100.3%	99.1%	103.6%
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 government2021 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % expenditure for 2021.

LVEELT

Country values by component

Component	LV	EE	LT
Compensation	87.6%	89.5%	98.4%
Social benefits	89.2%	101.3%	118.2%
Intermediate consumption	45.7%	51%	39.1%
Subsidies	21.2%	9.9%	13.8%
Property income / interest	3.9%	0.5%	4.4%
Gross capital formation	39%	47.2%	30.6%
Capital transfers	4.4%	5.9%	4.2%
Other current transfers	21.4%	17.9%	16.1%
Other expenditure	0%	0%	0%

Policy composition for 2021

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 2021 policy composition	30%	14%	12.7%	17.7%	5.3%	8.7%
Estonia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Estonia 2021 policy composition	31.6%	15.4%	14%	13.3%	4.9%	9.2%
Lithuania Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Lithuania 2021 policy composition	38%	15.6%	12.7%	11%	4.1%	8.1%

Groups inside Social protection

Pin a policy-composition division above to inspect its group breakdown for 2021. 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 2021 policy composition	19.4%	54%	1.4%	11.5%	7.2%	0.7%	3.6%	0%	2.2%
Estonia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Estonia 2021 policy composition	15.8%	55.6%	0.8%	18.8%	6%	0%	1.5%	0%	1.5%
Lithuania Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Lithuania 2021 policy composition	28.7%	44.8%	2.1%	13.3%	6.3%	0.7%	2.8%	0%	1.4%

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.