Estonia’s population totalled 1,360,745 people in the beginning of 2026, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reported. The number of ethnic Estonians amounted to 932,603 people (68.5%) and Russians to 276,125 people (20.2%) of the total population. People of other ethnic nationalities numbered 146,619 (10.8%), including 75,250 (5.5%) Ukrainians, 11,477 Belarusians, 8,059 Finns, and 4,272 Latvians. Another 5,398 people were of unknown ethnic nationality. The share of Estonians was lowest in Ida-Virumaa (20.9%), Harjumaa (60.5%), and Valgamaa (78.0%). Meanwhile, native speakers of Estonian totalled 890,104 people, which was 65.4% of the population. The number of Russian-speakers amounted to 366,251 (26.9%) and native speakers of Ukrainian to 55,812 (4.1%). Altogether 82.2% of Estonia’s population had Estonian citizenship, while 5.5% had Russian and 4.6% had Ukrainian citizenship. People of undetermined citizenship accounted for 4.3% of the population.
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