“…Klimantas work partly rests on several publications from this project, aiming at constructing economic and demographic key indicators for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 1920-2020 (Grytten 2022a, 2024, Klimantas 2023a, Norkus 2022, 2023a, 2024a, 2024b, 2024c. This paper asks in its first section the question whether we see any signs of economic convergence of the Baltic towards the Nordic countries during the last good hundred years.…”