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Official 2026 population releases put Latvia at 1.845 million, Lithuania at 2.888 million, and Estonia at 1,360,745 (about 1.361 million). Adding those figures gives roughly 6.09 million residents across the three Baltic states, so the post understates their population by about 394,000 people.

Using the official figures:

• Latvia: 1,845,000
• Lithuania: 2,888,000
• Estonia: 1,360,745
• Total: 6,093,745

That is materially different from 5.7 million.

This clause is incorrect on both parts:

1. Russians are not “another third” of the Baltic population. Official statistics put ethnic Russians at 20.2% of Estonia's population in 2026, 434,398 people in Latvia in 2025 (about 23.4% of the population), and 141.1 thousand / 5.0% of Lithuania's population in the 2021 census. Those country-level figures are all well below one-third.

2. It is also false that they “cannot get citizenship.” Estonia and Latvia both publicly describe their naturalization procedures. Estonia's citizenship information page says residents who meet the residence, language, civics, income, and loyalty requirements may apply through the Police and Border Guard Board. Latvia's OCMA likewise explains the documents, tests, and application process for acquiring Latvian citizenship by naturalization.

The Latvian official ethnicity/citizenship table makes the point especially clearly: among 434,398 ethnic Russians in Latvia in 2025, 300,089 were Latvian citizens, 109,235 were non-citizens, and 25,074 had other citizenship. So even in the Baltic state with the largest Russian minority, most ethnic Russians already held citizenship, and the country maintains a formal path to naturalization.

Because the post says “another third are Russians who cannot get citizenship” about the Baltic countries generally, it is contradicted by the official demographic shares and by the existence of active naturalization procedures.