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Lithuania

Closing the digital divide, expanding meaningful connectivity, and advancing digital education and workforce participation.

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Lithuania

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Population (2024)
2,888,278
Total area
65,300 km²
Area in square miles
25,212.46 mi²
Coastline
90 km
Base map adapted from Wikimedia Commons. Population: World Bank (2024); geography: CIA World Factbook.

National digital inclusion context

A portfolio-based view of access, capability, and outcomes.

This profile organizes the initiatives directly connected to Lithuania in the global research inventory. It follows the study's country-profile framework: national context, broadband infrastructure, inclusion practices, education and workforce connections, implementation actors, and intended contribution.

The documented portfolio emphasizes Fiber / Fixed Broadband Infrastructure, Backbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile Infrastructure, Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure, Fiber/Fiber Optic, 5G. The profile treats infrastructure, affordability, capability, institutions, support, and outcomes as an interconnected system.

Portfolio pattern

What the documented response contains.

Counts reflect source-workbook tags. One initiative may appear in multiple infrastructure or technology categories.

Infrastructure and access

  1. Fiber / Fixed Broadband Infrastructure4
  2. Backbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile Infrastructure3
  3. Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure2
  4. Infrastructure Planning / Mapping / Funding1
  5. Last-Mile / Access Infrastructure1

Specific technologies

  1. Fiber/Fiber Optic4
  2. 5G2

Intervention classification

  1. Infrastructure and Specific Technology5
  2. Infrastructure only1
  3. Neither explicitly identified1

Education and workforce

Connectivity becomes consequential through participation.

0 initiatives explicitly connect to education, K–12, or college/university contexts, and 0 connect to workforce development. Other investments may enable these outcomes indirectly.

Access

Networks, service availability, devices, and connection quality.

Capability

Skills, confidence, accessibility, navigation, and support.

Participation

Education, work, health, government, and civic opportunity.

Sustainability

Governance, operations, maintenance, funding, and learning.

Project and initiative portfolio

7 documented records

Every directly tagged record is shown with details and supporting URLs preserved from the research workbook.

01

Broadband / VHCN initiative

5G Via Baltica / Rail Baltica Connectivity Initiative

Ongoing / 2021–2027 · Rural areas / nationwide / transport corridors
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Status / periodOngoing / 2021–2027LocationRural areas / nationwide / transport corridorsPopulationHouseholds, firms and public institutionsOrganizationsMinistry of Transport and Communications; Plačiajuostis Internetas; operators

Targets uninterrupted 5G connectivity along international land-transport corridors.

Activities and approach: 5G corridor; fiber backhaul

Fiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureMobile / Wireless InfrastructureBackbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile InfrastructureFiber/Fiber Optic
02

Broadband / VHCN initiative

High-Speed Communication Infrastructure Project

Ongoing / 2021–2027 · Rural areas / nationwide / transport corridors
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Status / periodOngoing / 2021–2027LocationRural areas / nationwide / transport corridorsPopulationHouseholds, firms and public institutionsOrganizationsMinistry of Transport and Communications; Plačiajuostis Internetas; operators

Connects 5,000 locations to gigabit speeds where commercial service would not otherwise be provided.

Activities and approach: Gigabit connections

03

Broadband / VHCN initiative

RAIN Rural Broadband Network

Ongoing / 2021–2027 · Rural areas / nationwide / transport corridors
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Status / periodOngoing / 2021–2027LocationRural areas / nationwide / transport corridorsPopulationHouseholds, firms and public institutionsOrganizationsMinistry of Transport and Communications; Plačiajuostis Internetas; operators

Provides open wholesale fiber backhaul enabling operators to serve rural households and public institutions.

Activities and approach: Open-access rural fiber backhaul

Fiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureBackbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile InfrastructureFiber/Fiber Optic
04

Open-access rural backbone

RAIN Rural Broadband Network Expansion

Ongoing / through 2030 · Rural Lithuania
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Status / periodOngoing / through 2030LocationRural LithuaniaPopulationRural communities and operatorsOrganizationsNational broadband authority; telecom operators; EU/public funds

Maintains/expands public wholesale fiber in rural areas.

Activities and approach: Open-access fiber

Fiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureBackbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile InfrastructureLast-Mile / Access InfrastructureFiber/Fiber Optic
05

Broadband / VHCN initiative

Ultra-Fast Broadband Development Plan 2021–2027

Ongoing / 2021–2027 · Rural areas / nationwide / transport corridors
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Status / periodOngoing / 2021–2027LocationRural areas / nationwide / transport corridorsPopulationHouseholds, firms and public institutionsOrganizationsMinistry of Transport and Communications; Plačiajuostis Internetas; operators

Accelerates ≥100 Mbps access for households and public institutions in cities and rural areas.

Activities and approach: VHCN deployment; public investment

Infrastructure Planning / Mapping / Funding
06

Broadband / VHCN initiative

Ultra-Fast Connectivity Follow-Up Project

Ongoing / 2021–2027 · Rural areas / nationwide / transport corridors
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Status / periodOngoing / 2021–2027LocationRural areas / nationwide / transport corridorsPopulationHouseholds, firms and public institutionsOrganizationsMinistry of Transport and Communications; Plačiajuostis Internetas; operators

Plans connections for 14,909 households and 1,348 companies and wholesale access for 138 service providers.

Activities and approach: Rural fiber; wholesale access

Fiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureFiber/Fiber Optic
07

5G corridors

Via Baltica / Rail Baltica 5G Connectivity

Ongoing / through 2030 · Via Baltica and Rail Baltica
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Status / periodOngoing / through 2030LocationVia Baltica and Rail BalticaPopulationTravelers and logisticsOrganizationsNational broadband authority; telecom operators; EU/public funds

Deploys 5G along strategic transport corridors.

Activities and approach: 5G infrastructure

Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure5G

Evidence boundary

Read the portfolio as a starting point, not a final verdict.

Project records document interventions and intended contributions; they do not alone prove nationwide coverage, causal impact, or durable closure.

Profiles will deepen as national statistics, policy documents, evaluations, and implementation evidence are incorporated. Source links allow inspection of underlying evidence.

Evidence and contextProfile Sources

These sources support the country-level demographic, geographic, and connectivity context. Sources tied to individual projects remain with their project records and are not repeated here.

  1. Central Intelligence Agency. (n.d.). Lithuania. The World Factbook. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/lithuania/
  2. International Telecommunication Union. (n.d.). ITU DataHub: Country ICT data. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://datahub.itu.int/
  3. World Bank. (n.d.). Individuals using the Internet (% of population): Lithuania. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=LT
  4. World Bank. (n.d.). Population, total: Lithuania. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=LT

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