Country pillars
The ESI measures countries’ “distance to the ideal” performance. This ideal performance is chosen as the highest achieved by any country over a period of 7 years. The ideal performance is scaled to be 100 and the scores of all countries are then computed and compared to that. Basis of the ESI are 15 individual indicators from various international datasets. The scores are calculated across countries at the indicators’ level. The scores are then averaged at the various layers and finally the Index score is formed. To illustrate, an Index (or pillar, sub-pillar etc.) score of 65 suggests that the country has reached 65% of the ideal performance. Thus, there is still 35% (100-65) room for improvement. A score of 100 corresponds to achieving the ‘frontier’, that is an aspirational target performance for that indicator. A score of 0 corresponds to a lowest-case performance. This page shows specific information on the scores achieved by the chosen country across pillars, sub-pillars and indicators. Below, you can find a short commentary on country’s skills system performance over time and the ESI 2024 scores.
Lithuania: 2024 scores and progress over time
Lithuania ranked 20th of 31 countries in the European Skills Index in 2024, with a total score of 54.4. At the pillar level, it ranked 20th in Skills Development (score: 48.9), 12th in Skills Activation (score: 65.5) and 19th in Skills Matching (score: 52.2).
The highest-ranking indicators of Lithuania, in comparison with other countries, are Upper secondary attainment (and above) (88.7%, rank 1st) and Activity rate (aged 25-54) (90.1%, rank 7th). On the other hand, its weakest indicators are VET students (25.8%, rank 29th) and Low-wage workers (ISCED 5-8) (14.8%, rank 28th).
Over the last seven years the overall rank of Lithuania has remained unchanged from 20th place in 2017. In that time, its overall score has increased from 47.6 to 54.4. The indicators that have improved the most (in terms of their normalised scores, and accounting for indicator directions) are Long-term unemployment (3.9% in 2017 to 2.3% in 2024), and Over-qualification rate (tertiary graduates) (27.1% in 2017 to 24% in 2024). The indicators that have shown the greatest declines are Low-wage workers (ISCED 5-8) (12.8% in 2017 to 14.8% in 2024), and VET students (26.8% in 2017 to 25.8% in 2024).
Note that these figures may refer to imputed data points.