This report contains the status quo analysis of each country in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) (namely Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Russia) in general and a specific status quo report with respect to Participatory Budgetin of each pilot municipality of the EU-funded Interreg BSR project Empowering Participatory Budgeting in the Baltic Sea Region (EmPaci). In addition, a short overview of Participatory Budgetin in those BSR countries not in the project consortium will be given. The aim of this document is to provide an overview about the situation of citizen participation and Participatory Budgetin in the ten project pilot municipalities and their general starting point in the project. The information given here will be used in order to inform PB type groups and recommendations on how to design and implement the PB, which will be described in other outputs provided by the EmPaci project. The report was jointly composed by the EmPaci project team.