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Lithuania

Baltic safety and Baltic prices, with one international school to choose from.

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Tuition
~$11.6–26.4k/yr
Living
~$2,550/mo
Family of three, all in, excluding fees. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level behind it prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
Education
Strong
Guardian visa
No parent route; one parent must qualify alone
Safety
High
Twenty-fourth globally, and the safest of the three Baltic states after Estonia on this edition

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

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Tuition~$11.6–26.4k/yr

Vilnius has two English-medium international schools and so has no tier to exclude; both are used, and they differ by a factor of two. Vilnius International School charges €10,755 a year through Grade 10 and €11,880 at Grades 11 and 12, a median of €11,317.50. The American International School of Vilnius charges €21,908 at Grades 6 to 8, €23,584 at Grades 9 and 10 and €24,349 at Grades 11 and 12, a median of €23,584. Recorded at the median of the two schools, €17,450.75 a year, secondary only. The spread between them is the city's real spread, not a sampling artefact.

Confidence
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Last checked
2026-09
Living~$2,550/mo

Pathoff judgement directed by evidence, not computed from it: the country’s position comes from the World Bank household consumption price level for 2024 (0.570 of the United States, CC BY 4.0 — the ICP benchmark carried forward annually by the World Bank’s own method); the US reference budget is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

Family of three, all in, excluding fees. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level behind it prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

Confidence
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EducationStrong

Pathoff judgement, no rubric yet: placed against the other countries here from general knowledge of the international-school sector. Under review — see the Pathoff method, section 9-3.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Guardian visaNo parent route; one parent must qualify alone

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-1), early outcome band "A guardian must be arranged": No residence purpose exists for a parent accompanying a school-age child. The family route runs from a parent who already holds a permit to the child.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
SafetyHigh

Global Peace Index 2026: rank 24 of 163, score 1.62. Converted by the Pathoff GPI formula (GPI in lib/scoring.ts)

Twenty-fourth globally, and the safest of the three Baltic states after Estonia on this edition

Confidence
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What it is like here

Lithuania is twenty-fourth for peacefulness, costs about half of Western Europe and has built a serious fintech and laser sector in a country of under three million. The limits are scale — the international school market in Vilnius is essentially one school deep — and the same absence of parental status the whole region shares.

How the process works

1

A parent secures a residence permit

Employment, business or the startup route.

⏱ 1–3 months
2

Apply early; the market is small

One international school carries most of the demand.

⏱ 3–9 months

Where families cluster

Vilnius
The international school, the fintech employers, and the old town
Kaunas
Cheaper, more industrial, a growing technology sector

Open any ingredient above to see where its figure came from, how far we trust it and when we last checked. Nothing here is a substitute for the official source. Last reviewed 2026-09-04.

Photograph of Lithuania by Andrej Kuźniečyk, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.