Railways are much more popular in Latvia than in Estonia and Lithuania, according to Eurostat data, LSM reports. Latvian railways carried 21.399 million passengers in 2025, which was up from 19.508 million in 2024. The number of rail passengers totalled 7.692 (7.944) million in Estonia and 5.398 (5.114) million in Lithuania, the lowest in the entire EU. Relative to the population, the number of rail passengers was 11.5 per inhabitant in Latvia, 5.6 in Estonia, and just 1.9 in Lithuania. The passenger rate in Lithuania was the second-lowest in the EU.
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