The number of unemployed people in Estonia totalled 52,200 in the first quarter of 2026, which was 5,100 more than in the fourth quarter of 2025, but much lower than in the first quarter of 2025, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. Estonia’s unemployment rate stood at 7.1%, which was up 0.7 percentage…
Estonia’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.4% in April 2026 from a year earlier, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. The price of goods went up by 3.8% and of services by 2.8% on year. The rise in consumer prices was driven mostly by higher fuel, housing, and food costs. Transport costs increased by…
Estonia’s industrial production declined by 3.1% at constant prices in March 2026 compared to the same period of 2025, according to Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. Output increased by 5.9% in mining, but decreased by 19.5% in energy production and by 1.2% in manufacturing. In the manufacturing sector, output in wood processing rose by 5%, fabricated…
Estonia’s GDP rose by 1.3% in the first quarter of 2026, compared to the same period of 2025, according to Statistics Estonia’s flash estimate, BNS reported. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, seasonally and working-day adjusted GDP rose by 0.6%. Robert Müürsepp, national accounts service manager at Statistics Estonia, noted that there were several…
Estonia’s exports of goods totalled nearly EUR 1.5bn in February 2026, which was down 1% from the same period of 2025, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. Imports of goods totalled nearly EUR 1.9bn, which was up 6% over a year. Estonia’s monthly trade deficit thus amounted to EUR 426mn, which was EUR…
The total production of industrial enterprises in Estonia decreased by 0.5% at constant prices over a year in February 2026, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. Compared to January 2026, seasonally-adjusted total industrial production fell by 0.7% and manufacturing by 0.8%. Riin Kadarik, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that the decrease was…
Housing prices in Estonia rose by 5.2% on year in the third quarter of 2025, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reported. The average price of apartments rose by 5.5% and of residential houses by 4.7% over a year. The number of transactions for second-hand housing increased, while the number of purchases of newly-built…
Estonia’s GDP totalled EUR 39.848bn in 2024, which was up 3.9% from EUR 38.353bn in 2023, according to fresh data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. GDP per capita amounted to EUR 29,036, which was up EUR 1,047 from 2023. The service sector accounted for a record high of 75% of total value added in the…
The number of job vacancies in Estonia totalled 9,375 in the third quarter of 2025, which was 5.4% less than in the same period of 2024, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. The number of vacancies was the highest in education (2,025) and in wholesale and retail trade (1,264). The vacancy rate stood…
