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Estonia
Estonia is an EU member state with a population of 1.4M. Member of the European Union since 2004.
26 Eurostat indicators across 4 topics, with full year-by-year history.
Population
1.4M
2025 · rank 24/27
Country at a glance
Estonia is a baltic member of the European Union, with its capital in Tallinn. The country joined the European Communities in 2004 in the largest single enlargement to date — the ten central-and-eastern European, Mediterranean accession. Economically, Estonia is a Baltic digital-government pioneer with a tech-heavy services sector, paper-and-pulp exports and the smallest population of the three Baltic states. The country has used the euro since 2011, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. Estonian is the official language. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Estonia is currently 24th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record.
Indicators by topic
Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Estonia, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.
Labour & employment
5 indicators- Employment — EU-foreign citizens lfsa_egan 6k 2025 ▼6.7%
- Employment — foreign citizens (any) lfsa_egan 114k 2025 ▲4.4%
- Employment — national citizens lfsa_egan 535k 2025 ▼1.9%
- Employment — non-EU foreign citizens lfsa_egan 108k 2025 ▲5.1%
- Employment (15-64, all citizenships) lfsa_egan 649k 2025 ▼0.8%
Demography & population
4 indicatorsMigration & asylum
14 indicators- Acquisitions of EU citizenship migr_acq 758 2024 ▼29.7%
- First-time asylum applications migr_asyappctzm 240 2026 ▼75.9%
- Asylum negative first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 55 2025 ▼8.3%
- Asylum positive first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 750 2025 ▼44.4%
- Asylum positive — refugee status migr_asydcfsta 25 2025 ▼28.6%
- Asylum positive — subsidiary protection migr_asydcfsta 720 2025 ▼45.5%
- Asylum first-instance decisions (total) migr_asydcfsta 805 2025 ▼42.9%
- Return orders issued to non-EU citizens migr_eiord 660 2025 ▼15.4%
- Returns of non-EU citizens (executed) migr_eirtn 660 2025 ▼13.7%
- First residence permits — education migr_resfirst 408 2025 ▼2.4%
- First residence permits — work migr_resfirst 1,098 2025 ▼22.1%
- First residence permits — family migr_resfirst 1,328 2025 ▼10.3%
- First residence permits — other migr_resfirst 2,356 2025 ▲51.8%
- First residence permits issued (total) migr_resfirst 5,190 2025 ▲6.8%
More data on Estonia
This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.
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European Parliament
MEPs elected from Estonia (current term, 2024–2029).
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Public tenders
TED notices from Estonia buyers — public contracts above EU thresholds.
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EU research grants
CORDIS-funded R&D projects coordinated from Estonia.
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Cohesion funds
Kohesio-listed ERDF/ESF+/Cohesion Fund projects in Estonia.
Sources & methodology
Data on this page comes from Eurostat (26 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.
Last refreshed: 2026-06-30 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API