Lithuanian companies by sector and age (register data, 2026)

Method: what this page counts

Read the method before the numbers. Every figure below comes from one query against one table, and the definitions here decide what lands in each row.

Source. The companies table of the Ripe Leads register database, opened read only. Lithuanian company attributes trace to Scoris, which carries the Registrų centras register data, and the provenance table records 210,212 Lithuanian company entries against that source on 15 July 2026. Domain resolution for the same records traces to a separate source and is not used on this page.

Pull date. Every Lithuanian row was last written between 14 July and 25 July 2026. Formation date is a registry field rather than an observation, so it does not decay the way a job advert does. The counts themselves are a snapshot: companies register and close every week, and a fresh pull will return a similar total rather than an identical one.

What counts as active. One row is one Lithuanian legal entity whose status field reads active. The table holds 224,096 Lithuanian records in total and 223,941 of them are active, a difference of 155. All 223,941 active records carry a formation date, so no row on this page is dropped for a missing date.

Exclusions. The sector tables count the 107,213 active companies that carry a sector value, not the full 223,941. The remaining 116,728 hold no sector, and they are not missing at random: an unclassified record is usually a very small or very recently formed entity with too little public activity to classify. The city table counts the 106,997 active companies that carry a city, and leaves out the 116,944 that do not. Each table below states its own base.

One merge. The register supplies the public institution form in two casings, VŠĮ with 5,779 records and VšĮ with 4,722. They are the same legal form, so the legal-form table below reports them merged as one row of 10,501. Nothing else on this page is regrouped.

What this is not. The share formed in the last five years measures new legal entities, not hiring, revenue or headcount. A sector with a young register is a sector where people are starting companies. That is a different claim from a sector that grew its payroll, and this page does not make the second one.

When Lithuanian companies were formed

Formation dates on the active register run from 25 January 1980 to 2 March 2026. Grouped into five-year bands, the shape is a register that grew slowly through the 1990s and then doubled in a decade.

The 2025 band is short by three years, since the pull stops at 2 March 2026, and it already holds 21,780 companies. The 2020 to 2024 band is the largest in the file at 68,434, more than the whole of 1990 to 2004 combined. Read across the last three bands and 127,816 of the 223,941 active companies, 57.1 percent, formed since the start of 2015.

Two entries sit in the 1980 to 1984 band and five in 1985 to 1989. Lithuania restored independence in 1990, so those seven records predate the modern register and survive as continuing entities rather than as a meaningful cohort.

Sector, and the share formed in the last five years

107,213 active companies carry a sector. The table runs by size, and the last column is each sector’s own five-year formation share rather than a share of the register.

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Finance and insurance is the youngest sector on the register at 29.1 percent formed since 2021, on the smallest classified base of the named sectors at 1,235 companies. IT and software follows at 28.6 percent. At the other end, public and non-profit sits at 3.4 percent, education and training at 11.5 percent and health and medical at 13.8 percent, three sectors where entry depends on a licence, a building or a public contract.

Transport and logistics is the largest named sector at 14,456 companies and the third youngest at 25.5 percent, which is unusual: size and youth normally pull against each other. The two rows to read carefully are Other, a 19,312-company catch-all for firms outside the named taxonomy, and Uncategorised at 492 companies of which 477 formed since 2021. Uncategorised is a labelling artefact of very recent registrations, so its 97.0 percent share describes the label rather than the economy.

Legal form, and where the young companies sit

Ten legal forms cover 218,135 of the 223,941 active companies, 97.4 percent. The remaining 5,806 spread across 42 further forms, mostly branches, religious communities and specialist cooperatives.

The MB explains most of the register’s recent growth. Lithuania introduced the small partnership in 2012 as a low-capital form for two to ten members, and 47,503 of its 66,703 active companies formed since 2021, a 71.2 percent five-year share against 23.3 percent for the UAB. Put the two side by side and the MB supplies 47,503 of the 79,562 formations in the window while holding 29.8 percent of the register.

That matters for anyone building a target list. A UAB is the form a trading company with staff and a balance sheet usually takes. An MB is often one or two people, and a filter that keeps every active legal entity will hand you 66,703 records where the buying decision, the budget and the employee count all sit at a different scale. The individual enterprise, the IĮ, is the clearest case: 13,096 records, 611 of them formed since 2021, a form the register is carrying rather than adding to.

The fifteen largest cities

106,997 active companies carry a city, and the fifteen largest hold 90,184 of them. 116,944 active records carry no city at all, so this table describes the located subset rather than the register.

Vilnius holds 39.6 percent of the located companies and Kaunas 17.2 percent. Between them the two cities carry 60,791 records, and the drop from Kaunas to third-placed Klaipėda is steeper than the drop from Klaipėda to fifteenth-placed Jonava.

Palanga is the outlier on age at 26.0 percent formed since 2021, ahead of Vilnius, on 904 companies. Panevėžys sits lowest of the fifteen at 12.1 percent. A campaign aimed at newly formed companies concentrates in Vilnius and on the coast, and one aimed at established industrial firms works better in Panevėžys, Šiauliai and Mažeikiai.

What the age structure does to a target list

Take every active Lithuanian company and you have 223,941 records. Three cuts change what that list is worth.

Drop the records with no sector and 107,213 remain. Drop the MB and the individual enterprise, the two forms that usually mean one or two people rather than a company with staff, and the base falls again. Keep only companies formed since 2021 and you have 79,562 records, of which 47,503 are MBs, so the young end of the register skews heavily towards the smallest legal form in the country.

The combination matters more than either cut alone. A seller chasing newly formed companies because they have no incumbent supplier will find that most of them are small partnerships with no procurement budget. A seller filtering for UABs with a sector will get a cleaner list of 99,596 records whose median age is higher, where the incumbent relationship is the obstacle rather than the size.

Our companion pages cover how many companies there are in Lithuania with the regional and revenue splits, the full database methodology, and the Polish equivalent of this page. Exporters planning a Baltic entry will want the market sizing in lead generation for exporters to the Baltics.

Compiled by Ripe Leads from a Lithuanian company register pull dated 14 to 25 July 2026.