Companies in Lithuania: how many are there?

The headline numbers

Lithuania is small enough that you can hold the whole market in one dataset, which is unusual and useful. These are our counts as of August 2026.

The gap between 224,096 companies and 107,368 with headcount is not sloppiness. It is the difference between every registered entity and those filing enough to be measurable. Dormant companies, holding vehicles and sole traders make up much of the remainder.

By sector

The sector ranking is the most revealing table on this page.

Transport leading is not an accident of classification. Lithuania sits on the road freight corridor between the Nordics, Poland and the east, and it built an outsized haulage industry on that geography. If you sell to logistics, this is one of the densest markets in Europe relative to population.

Transport and logistics in detail

Transport and logistics is the largest sector in the register, so it gets its own breakdown. Our Lithuanian register snapshot holds 14,474 active transport and logistics companies, roughly one for every two hundred residents. Lithuania is one of the largest road freight nations in the European Union relative to its size, and its hauliers work across the whole single market: a company registered in Vilnius may run most of its kilometres between Germany, France and the Benelux. A supplier to this sector is selling to internationally trading businesses, not to a local market of three million. Vilnius city alone has 6,331 transport and logistics companies in the same register snapshot, broken out in how many companies are there in Vilnius.

Where the transport companies are

Vilnius county holds nearly half the sector, which is a registration effect as much as an operational one: the office registers in the capital while the trucks run from depots elsewhere. Klaipėda is the exception, where the port genuinely anchors the activity.

How big they are

Seven in ten are micro operators with fewer than five people, typically one to three trucks run by an owner-driver, who buy fuel, insurance, tyres and financing rather than software. The 600 companies with fifty or more employees are the fleet operators, and they are the addressable market for anything that needs a transport manager, a compliance function or a procurement process.

Revenue and pay

Filed revenue is on record for 12,827 of the 14,474 companies, which is 88.6 percent. Figures are in euro.

In Poland filed revenue exists for under half the register; here it exists for nearly nine in ten transport companies, so a turnover filter describes the market rather than a biased slice of it. Average monthly gross pay across the 5,287 transport companies with a pay figure on file is 1,715 euros, almost exactly the national average of 1,718 across all sectors.

What this means for targeting transport

Split the market at fifty employees and sell two different things: below it, 13,874 owner-operators buying operational goods, above it, 600 fleet operators buying systems. Use revenue, because you can. And do not start from websites: only 5,481 of the 14,474 have one, thirty eight percent, so a domain-first workflow misses six companies in ten.

By company size

Four out of five measurable Lithuanian companies employ fewer than ten people. That single fact should shape any go-to-market plan for the country.

It means the buyer is usually the owner. It means procurement processes are short. And it means enterprise-style selling, with multi-stage nurture and committee mapping, is aimed at a segment of roughly seven hundred companies.

What "addressable" actually means here

224,096 is the market. It is not your list, and treating it as one is the most common mistake made here.

Filter for companies that are actively trading, above your minimum size, in sectors that fit, with a resolvable domain and a reachable decision-maker, and a six-figure count becomes a four-figure one very quickly. That is the correct outcome. A Lithuanian campaign aimed at two thousand well-chosen companies will beat one aimed at fifty thousand every time, because the market is small enough that reputation travels.

Why Lithuania rewards precision

Three characteristics make this market different from selling into Germany or the UK.

It is genuinely small. Your total addressable market in most niches is hundreds of companies, not thousands. You can afford to research each one, and you should.

Everyone knows everyone. A careless mass campaign gets talked about. The reputational cost of getting it wrong is higher than in a large market where you are anonymous.

Language matters more than in most of Europe. English works in tech and startups. In logistics, manufacturing and construction, Lithuanian gets read and English gets deleted.

What this dataset is not

It is a working sales dataset, not an official statistic. The registry is the backbone, but sector classification, domain resolution and contact attachment are our own derivations and carry their own error rates.

Revenue figures are the most recent available filing rather than current performance, and headcount is insured employees rather than total workforce. For statistical purposes use the official registry. For deciding who to call, this is more useful.