Lithuania has the largest ICT industry in the Baltic States with an outstanding potential both for local as well as foreign expanding businesses.

13 out of the 20 largest IT companies in the Baltic States are based in Lithuania. The Lithuanian GetJar, being the world’s first multi-platform mobile application download provider from 2005 and now the world’s second largest mobile application store with over 1 billion downloads to date (more than Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung, LG and less than only Apple), as well as the winner of the prestigious Mobile Excellence Award for Best Mobile Service, has been recently awarded by World Economic Forum as one of the 4 world’s most innovative Technology Pioneer 2011 companies to have a great impact on business, economics and society worldwide. 

There are more than 20,000 IT professionals employed on the market with an additional generation of around 4500 studying IT curriculums in 15 higher education institutions across the country.

Lithuania has the world’s fastest Internet download speed, the world’s second fastest Internet upload speed, the world’s 6th and Europe’s No. 1 fiber to the home (FTTH) optic communication penetration (23 percent), Europe’s highest fiber optic density,  Europe’s densest network of public Internet access points (875), and is the global leader in mobile e-signature.

It is expected that by 2015 products of IT, laser technologies, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and materials science will constitute 25 % of Lithuania‘s GDP and 80 % of national export.

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