Lithuania
Latest Average Wage
+15.9% · 5 years
$58,112
Country Comparison
Lithuania vs Japan
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Lithuania
vs
Japan
$58,1122025
Latest Average Wage
Lithuania +15.8%
(vs Japan)
$50,1832025
+15.9%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Lithuania +18.1 pts
(vs Japan)
−2.2%2025
+55.3%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Lithuania +57.0 pts
(vs Japan)
−1.6%2025
51.32024
Overall Price Level
Japan +7.9 index points
(vs Lithuania)
59.22024
Wages are PPP-adjusted average annual wages; price levels use the United States reference of 100. Years shown are each country's latest reported observation.
How Wages Have Changed
Follow PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices across both economies.
USD PPP, constant prices · missing years shown as gaps, never interpolated
Japan
Latest Average Wage
−2.2% · 5 years
$50,183
Wage Milestones
Lithuania
10 Years Ago
$37,409 (2015)
Historical Peak
$58,112 (2025)
Latest Wage
$58,112 (2025)
Japan
10 Years Ago
$51,027 (2015)
Historical Peak
$52,662 (1997)
Latest Wage
$50,183 (2025)
Compare Everyday Price Levels
See how eight consumer price categories compare with the United States reference value of 100.
United States = 100 · Differences shown in index points
Lithuania (LTU)Japan (JPN)
Overall
−7.9 index points
100
51.3vs59.2
Food
−24.8 index points
100
87.2vs112
Clothing
+23.9 index points
100
94.9vs71
Housing
−15.2 index points
100
33.3vs48.5
Health
−3.2 index points
100
30.7vs33.9
Transport
0.0 index points
100
84.4vs84.4
Recreation
−16.6 index points
100
61.8vs78.4
Restaurants & Accommodation
−2.4 index points
100
70.2vs72.6
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Lithuania's latest average wage is $58,112 for 2025, about 15.8% higher than Japan's $50,183 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. Per year, that works out to roughly $7,929 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Lithuania shows the stronger movement at +5.9%, against −0.5% for Japan. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +15.9% against −2.2%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Food shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 87.2 for Lithuania against 112 for Japan. That is a separation of 24.8 index points on the US=100 scale, with Japan on the higher side and Lithuania on the lower one. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Transport: Lithuania reads 84.4 and Japan 84.4 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Restaurants & Accommodation at 2.4 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Lithuania holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $58,112 for 2025, against Japan's $50,183 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 15.8% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $7,929 a year. No extra conversion is needed here: each figure is already a purchasing-power-adjusted annual amount in constant prices. For scale, neither series has moved by that much within any single reported year, so the gap is structural rather than the product of one unusual observation. Over ten years Lithuania recorded +55.3% against Japan's −1.6%, so the current levels were reached on visibly different long-term paths.
Wage Direction
The two wage series are currently moving in opposite directions, and the separation between them is growing. Lithuania sits at the highest point of its series — $58,112 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +55.3%. Japan continues to drift below its peak, with a one-year change of −0.5% and a five-year change of −2.2%. Lithuania is the side gaining in real terms (+15.9% over five years), while Japan records −2.2%, so the five-year measures point away from each other instead of converging. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Lithuania's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 51.3, and Japan's reads 59.2, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Japan sits higher in 6 of the 8 comparable categories. Food separates the two most: Lithuania reads 87.2 and Japan 112, 24.8 index points apart. The two sit closest in Transport (84.4 versus 84.4), only 0.0 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 0 of Lithuania's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 1 of Japan's 8. These are index values for 2024, not currency amounts; categories without a reported value on either side are left out of the comparison.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
