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 2024

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

Balance (% GDP)Approved stage2024Shared frame

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

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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 2024. With 3 rows, the snapshot cards below show every visible country instead of pinning one.

RankCountry20241Y Δ3Y Δ
1Estonia-2.2%1%N/AOverview
2Latvia-4.2%0.7%-0.6%Overview
3Lithuania-11.8%3.5%14.1%Overview

Selected-year snapshots

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

LV

Latvia

ComparableWithin comparable windowApproved stageState budgetExecution detail through 2026

Balance % GDP

-4.2%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

39.9%

Revenue % GDP

35.7%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

1.4%

GDP

€40.7K

Nominal topline snapshot

i

Revenue

€14.5B

Expenditure

€16.2B

Balance

-€1.7B

Financing

€1.7B

Open countryLatvia 2024 snapshotLatvia 2024 policy composition

EE

Estonia

ComparableWithin comparable windowApproved stageState budgetExecution detail through 2025

Balance % GDP

-2.2%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

44.4%

Revenue % GDP

42.2%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

3.7%

GDP

€39.8K

Nominal topline snapshot

i

Revenue

€16.8B

Expenditure

€17.7B

Balance

-€880M

Financing

€1.4B

Open countryEstonia 2024 snapshotEstonia 2024 policy composition

LT

Lithuania

ComparableWithin comparable windowApproved stageState budgetExecution detail through 2025

Balance % GDP

-11.8%

Debt % GDP

N/A

Expenditure % GDP

29.2%

Revenue % GDP

17.4%

Interest burden

N/A

Inflation rate

0.8%

GDP

€79K

Nominal topline snapshot

i

Revenue

€13.8B

Expenditure

€23.1B

Balance

-€9.3B

Financing

N/A

Open countryLithuania 2024 snapshotLithuania 2024 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 government2024 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % revenue for 2024.

LVEELT

Country values by component

ComponentLVEELT
VAT84.7%79.6%76.8%
Personal income tax63.2%N/A76%
Corporate income tax17.4%4.2%24%
Social contributions102.8%103.9%104.2%
Other revenue0%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 government2024 peer year

Peer-set snapshot

All visible countries in % expenditure for 2024.

LVEELT

Country values by component

ComponentLVEELT
CompensationN/A96.9%96.4%
Social benefitsN/A100.2%107.6%
Intermediate consumptionN/A49.7%36.6%
SubsidiesN/A5.7%2.1%
Property income / interestN/A4.6%6.7%
Gross capital formationN/A55.1%36.5%
Capital transfersN/A2.6%5%
Other current transfersN/A14%17.5%
Other expenditure100%0%0%

Policy composition for 2024

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

Latvian official statistics COFOG

30.9%11.9%13.4%14.5%6%10%

Estonia

Comparable

Eurostat gov_10a_exp

31.4%14.4%14.2%10.5%8.5%9.9%

Lithuania

Comparable

Eurostat gov_10a_exp

37.2%14.6%13.9%8%6.5%9%

Groups inside Social protection

Pin a policy-composition division above to inspect its group breakdown for 2024. 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

Latvian official statistics COFOG

20.9%57.6%1.6%10%3.6%0.8%3.3%0%2.2%

Estonia

Comparable

Eurostat gov_10a_exp

13.1%59.1%0.7%17.5%6.6%0%1.5%0%1.5%

Lithuania

Comparable

Eurostat gov_10a_exp

26.5%46.9%2%12.2%6.8%0.7%2.7%0%2%

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.