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 2023

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 stage2023Shared 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 metrics3/3 countries charted

Snapshot league table

Rows rank the visible Baltic countries on the active approved metric for 2023. With 3 rows, the snapshot cards below show every visible country instead of pinning one.

Rank	Country	2023	1Y Δ	3Y Δ
1	Estonia	-3.3%	-1.9%	N/A	Overview
2	Latvia	-4.9%	-0.1%	-4.6%	Overview
3	Lithuania	-15.3%	3.5%	13.1%	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

-4.9%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

37.1%

Revenue % GDP

32.2%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

9.1%

GDP

€39.6K

Nominal topline snapshot

Revenue

€12.7B

Expenditure

€14.7B

Balance

-€2B

Financing

€2B

Open country Latvia 2023 snapshot Latvia 2023 policy composition

Estonia

ComparableWithin comparable windowApproved stageState budgetExecution detail through 2025

Balance % GDP

-3.3%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

43.9%

Revenue % GDP

40.6%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

9.1%

GDP

€38.4K

Nominal topline snapshot

Revenue

€15.6B

Expenditure

€16.8B

Balance

-€1.2B

Financing

€468M

Open country Estonia 2023 snapshot Estonia 2023 policy composition

Lithuania

ComparableWithin comparable windowApproved stageState budgetExecution detail through 2025

Balance % GDP

-15.3%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

31.1%

Revenue % GDP

15.8%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

8.7%

GDP

€74.3K

Nominal topline snapshot

Revenue

€11.8B

Expenditure

€23.1B

Balance

-€11.3B

Financing

N/A

Open country Lithuania 2023 snapshot Lithuania 2023 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 government2023 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % revenue for 2023.

LVEELT

Country values by component

Component	LV	EE	LT
VAT	91.7%	81%	77.7%
Personal income tax	61.3%	N/A	75%
Corporate income tax	13.2%	4.2%	26.1%
Social contributions	103.6%	108.6%	102.3%
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 government2023 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % expenditure for 2023.

LVEELT

Country values by component

Component	LV	EE	LT
Compensation	94.6%	91.5%	88.2%
Social benefits	93%	96.7%	103.8%
Intermediate consumption	48.2%	50.3%	33.8%
Subsidies	15.9%	7.6%	4.7%
Property income / interest	5.7%	2.8%	5%
Gross capital formation	47.1%	54.7%	35.7%
Capital transfers	3.4%	2.2%	4.8%
Other current transfers	18.8%	14.7%	18%
Other expenditure	0%	0%	0%

Policy composition for 2023

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 2023 policy composition	31%	12.1%	14%	14.7%	7.2%	8.9%
Estonia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Estonia 2023 policy composition	31.3%	14.4%	14.6%	11.4%	7.1%	9.6%
Lithuania Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Lithuania 2023 policy composition	37.4%	14.1%	13.8%	8.5%	6.1%	9.6%

Groups inside Social protection

Pin a policy-composition division above to inspect its group breakdown for 2023. 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 2023 policy composition	20%	57.8%	1.5%	11.1%	3%	0.7%	3.7%	0%	2.2%
Estonia Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Estonia 2023 policy composition	13.3%	55.6%	0.7%	20%	6.7%	0%	2.2%	0%	1.5%
Lithuania Comparable Eurostat gov_10a_exp Open Lithuania 2023 policy composition	26.6%	46.8%	2.2%	12.9%	5.8%	1.4%	2.9%	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.