Lithuania

ENIn 2013, finally, the official results of the 2011 Census were made public. The Lithuanian censuses routinely include questions pertaining to religious identification. The 2011 Census returned 2,727 residents of Lithuania as specifically Sunni Muslims (no data on Shiʿis is available), or 0.1% of the total population of three million; in the 2001 Census that number stood at 2,860 and thus has decreased in a decade by some five percent. Of 2,727 Sunni Muslims in 2011, 1,441 identified themselves as ethnic Tatars (or 52.8% of all Sunni Muslims and just 51.6% of all 2,793 ethnic Tatars), while 374—as ethnic Lithuanians. In the previous, 2001 Census, there were 1,679 ethnic Muslim Tatars (or 58.7% of all Sunni Muslims and 51.9% of all 3,235 ethnic Tatars) and 185 Lithuanians.6 As the total number of Lithuania’s residents who identified themselves as ethnic Tatars in 2001 stood at 3,235 and in 2011—at 2,793, there is a 13.7% decrease in a decade. As of 2011, almost half of Lithuania’s Muslims live in Vilnius and its district, followed by Kaunas, Alytus and Klaipėda districts. [Extract, p. 378]