Among 1,000 residents over the age of 10, 212 had university degrees in 2011, as compared with 126 in 2001, shows 2011 census data published by the Statistics Department on Friday.
In 2011, 78.5 percent of the population spoke one ore more non-native languages, up from 70.6 percent in 2001. The number of Lithuanian residents speaking the English language went up from 16.9 percent in 2001 to 30.4 percent in 2011, while 63 percent of the population spoke Russian, 8.5 percent spoke Polish and 8.3 percent spoke German that year.
