ESTONIA

Capital Tallinn
Area (km2) 45 228
Total population (thousands, 2018) 1 322
Population density (per km2) 29
National currency Euro (EUR)
National statistical office www.stat.ee
Statistics Estonia
Women in the labour force, 2019
   percentage of total for both sexes 49%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2017 24%
   hourly wage, 2018 23%
Women in part-time employment, 2019
   percentage of employed women 18%
Female tertiary students, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 59%
Female victims of homicide, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 28%
Women researchers, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 42%
Life expectancy at birth, 2018
   females, years 82.7
   males, years 74.0
Life expectancy at 65, 2018
   females, years 20.6
   males, years 15.7
Total fertility rate, 2018
   average number of children per woman 1.7
Adolescent fertility rate, 2018
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 9.6
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2017
   age in years 27.4
 
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
0.8
2.9
0.3
2.7
1.2
1.3
Unemployment rate
 (%)
7.4
6.2
6.8
5.8
5.4
..
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
15.0
13.1
13.4
12.1
11.8
11.1
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2019 51 486
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 38 864
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2019 72.6
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2019 68.6
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 26 668
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   EUR per USD, US=1, 2019 0.545
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 53
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 362
Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2018 1 161
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2018 154
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2018 1 388
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2018 51
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2018 417
      million tonne-kilometres, 2018 2 595
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres, 2016 2 865
      million tonne-kilometres, 2018 5 783