Estonia’s exports of goods totalled almost EUR 1.8bn at current prices in April 2026, which was up 13% from the same period of 2025, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. Exports of goods of Estonian origin rose by 10%, accounting for 61% of total exports. Re-exports increased by 19% over a year. Meanwhile, imports of…
Estonia’s industrial production output declined by 3.8% on year in April 2026, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reported. Output increased by 14.3% in mining, but decreased by 14.9% in energy production and by 3.2% in manufacturing. Compared to March 2026, industrial production grew by 1.2%. Riin Kadarik, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, noted…
Estonia’s consumer price index rose by 3.7% on year in May 2026, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reported. Consumer prices of goods rose by 3.1% and services by 4.6%. The increase in prices was influenced the most by a 10.4% rise in transport costs and 5.4% rise in housing-related costs, both driven up by higher…
Estonia’s harmonised index of consumer prices rose by 4% in May 2026 from a year earlier, according to Statistics Estonia’s preliminary estimate, ERR reports. Compared to April 2026, consumer prices rose by 0.9%. Lenno Uusküla, chief economist at Luminor, said that the rapid price increase was driven by higher energy and other commodity prices as…
Estonia’s exports of services totalled nearly EUR 3.3bn in the first quarter of 2026, which was up 4% from the same period of 2025, according to data from Statistics Estonia and the Bank of Estonia. Imports of services totalled around EUR 2.5bn, which was unchanged over a year. Estonia’s trade balance in services showed a…
The average monthly gross wage in Estonia amounted to EUR 2,135 in the first quarter of 2026, which was up 6.2% from the same period of 2025, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reported. Wages increased in all counties, rising by 6.5% to EUR 2,538 in Tallinn, by 6.3% to EUR 2,405 in Harjumaa county, and…
Estonia’s GDP totalled EUR 10.2bn at current prices in the first quarter of 2026, which was up 2.4% from the same period of 2025, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reported. This was the fourth consecutive quarter of GDP growth and the first time that economic growth exceeded 2% since the first quarter of 2022. Value…
The wealth of Estonian households has increased significantly, while wealth inequality has remained relatively stable over 2013-2024, according to the Bank of Estonia and Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. The household finance and consumption surveys showed that the median household had net wealth of EUR 103,300 in 2024, which was up more than double from EUR…
The average price of agricultural land in Estonia was EUR 6,122 per hectare in 2025, which was down 9.7% from EUR 6,782 in 2024, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. The price drop was due to a lack of large transactions. The average price of grassland stood at EUR 4,861 and arable land at EUR…
