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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have effectively moved the common operational horizon for Rail Baltica from 2030 to 2034, while narrowing the first-stage priority to a continuous Tallinn–Kaunas–Poland backbone. On 22 September, roughly 247 km of the main line…
PhotoLithuania’s railway market is moving in two different directions: passenger traffic is growing while freight volumes continue to contract. Railways carried 3 million passengers in the first half of 2026, 11.2% more than a year earlier. Passenger transport…
Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly into mainstream use in Estonia: 65% of people and 34% of enterprises now use AI tools, according to new Statistics Estonia data. AI use increased 1.4 times among individuals and 1.5 times among…
Heating and hot water accounted for 83.9% of all energy consumed by Latvian households in 2025, underlining how strongly household energy costs still depend on the efficiency of buildings and heating systems. The latest five-year household energy survey…
Solar power plants generated 221 GWh of electricity in Latvia in August, more than twice the level recorded a year earlier, according to transmission system operator Augstsprieguma tīkls. Solar accounted for almost 60% of all electricity generated and…
The Bank of Lithuania has sharply upgraded its outlook for Lithuanian exports in 2026, while leaving its headline economic growth forecast unchanged. Exports of goods and services are now expected to grow by 4.8% this year, compared with…
Passenger traffic continued to grow across the Baltic airports in August, but the pace of expansion remained sharply uneven. Tallinn and Vilnius again showed the strongest growth, while Riga remained broadly flat compared with a year earlier. Tallinn’s…
July interrupted Estonia’s return towards export parity with Latvia. But the underlying numbers show why gross export growth alone gives an incomplete picture of the Baltic economies. In August, Baltic Focus asked whether Estonia was about to reclaim…
PhotoFood prices are falling across the Baltics while fuel costs are rising. Yet annual inflation in August ranged from 1.5% in Estonia to 3.2% in Latvia and 6.1% in Lithuania. The difference lies less in the direction of…
PhotoFor the first time this year, food and grocery retail growth across the three Baltic states came together almost exactly
DataAcross the Baltics, ageing and a shrinking domestic labour base are tightening labour supply. By mid-2026, however, the pressure was showing up very differently in each of the three markets. All three Baltic countries entered 2026 with small…
DataEstonia and Latvia are once again approaching parity in goods exports.
PhotoThe Baltic states entered H2 2026 with sharply different inflation rates.
DataBaltic prices fell sharply from June as wind generation strengthened across Northern Europe and the region. They still remained above July 2025 levels in all three Baltic states.
PhotoLithuania’s manufacturing output rose by 8.1% year on year in June, Latvia recorded 5.0% growth, while Estonia posted a 5.3% decline. The latest data show the three Baltic manufacturing sectors entering the second half of 2026 on increasingly…
DataRetail trade expanded across the Baltic states in the first half of 2026, though the available national releases do not form a fully harmonised three-country dataset.
PhotoEmployer-level Sodra data reveal where Lithuania hosts expensive technology, pharmaceutical, financial, laboratory and regional corporate functions — and which June payments were structural or exceptional.
PhotoThe three Baltic economies entered 2026 with a common external pressure: goods balances remained weak, while services provided the main offset.
PhotoGoods exports increased in all three Baltic states in May 2026.
PhotoInflation accelerated across all three Baltic states during the first two months of Q2 2026.
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