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IndicatorESTEstoniaEurope & Central Asia
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #1
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile81.6rank #15
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.76rank #14
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.81rank #5
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.97rank #3
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile76.6rank #24
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #1
Military spending% GDP3.4%rank #19
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.62rank #9
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile77.8rank #56
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile76.9rank #17
Rule of Law0-100 percentile82.5rank #16
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.99rank #7
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.89rank #4
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.84rank #5
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile81.6rank #15
Women in parliament% seats28.7%rank #78
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.94rank #6
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment3%rank #143
Agriculture value added% GDP1.6%rank #132
Annual working hours per workerhours1,605.7rank #106
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker299,142.5rank #44
Current account balance% GDP-0.15%rank #38
Employment-to-population ratio%59%rank #76
FDI net inflows% GDP-1.8%rank #92
GDPcurrent US$47.03Brank #101
GDP growth%0.58%rank #168
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$34,417.6rank #36
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $41,604.3rank #45
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $40,880.9rank #44
Government expenditure% GDP37.7%rank #16
Gross capital formation% GDP24.8%rank #48
Gross savings% GDP24.8%rank #29
High-technology exports% manuf. exports18.4%rank #32
Human capital indexindex3.7rank #12
Industry value added% GDP19.7%rank #115
Inflation%4.8%rank #129
Labour force participation rate%64.5%rank #64
Personal remittances received% GDP1.1%rank #61
R&D expenditure% GDP1.8%rank #20
Researchers in R&Dper million4,800.4rank #22
Tax revenue% GDP22.7%rank #25
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.66rank #57
Trade openness% GDP155.8%rank #12
Unemployment% labor force8.3%rank #133
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%8.5%rank #136
Vulnerable employment% employment7.1%rank #22
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2419.7%rank #132
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2419.4%rank #132
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #9
Basic sanitation access% pop99%rank #38
Child mortalityper 1000.2rank #2
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,286.5rank #55
DTP3 immunization coverage%81%rank #19
Health spending% GDP7.8%rank #19
Infant mortalityper 1k births1.5rank #2
Life expectancyyears79.3rank #56
Maternal mortalityper 100k5rank #5
Measles immunization% children83%rank #17
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%83%rank #17
Physiciansper 1k3.5rank #37
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m35.9rank #19
Road traffic deathsper 100k4.5rank #16
Smoking prevalence% adults26.1%rank #98
Suicide mortality rateper 100k14.9rank #151
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k8.2rank #37
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births2rank #2
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Adult literacy%99.9%rank #2
Education spending% GDP5.2%rank #44
Expected years of schoolingyears16rank #45
Mean years of schoolingyears13.6rank #7
Primary completion rate% relevant age99.9%rank #26
Primary enrollment% gross97.8%rank #78
Secondary enrollment% gross108.5%rank #16
Tertiary enrollment% gross65.7%rank #34
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0007.1rank #186
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.2rank #184
Median age of populationyears41.9rank #32
Net migration rateper 1,0004.2rank #42
Populationpeople1.37Mrank #157
Population growth%-0.43%rank #196
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years83.2rank #58
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands1,174.3rank #162
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age58.4rank #81
Urban population%70.7%rank #75
Climate
CO₂ emissionst8.31Mrank #118
CO₂ per capitat6.1rank #50
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation0.48%rank #80
Electricity from solar% generation19.7%rank #11
Electricity from wind% generation18.6%rank #16
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita5,297.5rank #23
Forest area% land57.1%rank #33
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita13.8rank #172
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh316.6rank #44
Renewable electricity%59.6%rank #27
Renewable energy share%38%rank #60
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e18.9rank #67
Society
Asylum seekerspeople52rank #19
Extreme poverty% pop0.3%rank #4
Female labor participation%61%rank #45
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10035.4rank #35
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #9
Gender Inequality Index0-10.06rank #21
Gini indexindex30.7rank #14
Homicide rateper 100k1.5rank #40
Human Development Index0-10.91rank #27
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.84rank #18
Internet users% pop92.2%rank #42
Life satisfaction0-106.4rank #44
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.71rank #42
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #84
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #31
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #35
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #35
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people41,299rank #67
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people86rank #24
Youth NEET rate%10.3%rank #35
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-101.3rank #8
Human hazard & exposure0-100.9rank #10
INFORM risk score0-101.9rank #8
Lack of coping capacity0-101.5rank #7
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.6rank #3
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-102.4rank #9
Natural hazard & exposure0-101.6rank #5
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.4rank #5
Vulnerability0-103.4rank #23
Vulnerable groups0-105.5rank #50
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