At the birth of the Grand Duchy, ethnic Lithuanians made up about 70% of the population.

The population of Lithuania stands at 3,244,600, 83.9% of whom are ethnic Lithuanians who speak Lithuanian, which is the official language of the country.

Perpetuation of the Lithuanian language is a key concern of ethnic Lithuanians, who make up 80 percent of the republic's population of 3.6 million.

In the 1979 census, the latest for which data are available, 80 percent of Lithuania's 3.39 million people were ethnic Lithuanians.

Today, with almost 94 percent of its citizens being ethnic Lithuanians, Kaunas is one of the most Lithuanian cities in the country.

There are also claims of smaller scale killings of ethnic Lithuanians.

There are about 3.6 million people in Lithuania, 80 percent of them ethnic Lithuanians.

The area had earlier been inhabited by ethnic Lithuanians, but by the time of his birth it was largely Belarusian-populated.

Szlachta there had a wide local government and enjoyed many social, economic and military privileges, unlike ethnic Lithuanians.

Each of the statues features a Soviet or socialist activist, many of them ethnic Lithuanians.