Employment rate

The employment rate shows the share of employed persons in the working-age population. The data are collected with the Labour Force Survey. An employed person is someone who worked during the reference period and was paid as a wage earner, entrepreneur or freelancer. An employed person is also someone who worked without direct payment in a family enterprise or own farm, or was temporarily absent from work.

Employment rate 68.9 %
Employment rate (quarter) 68.5 %
-0.9%
Q4 2024
Employment rate of persons aged 15–74 by sex | 2012–2024
Labour status of population aged 15–⁠74 by county | 2022 – 2024
Unit: %
2022 2023 2024
Harju county 74.3 73.2 72.8
Hiiu county 70.8 70.0 71.3
Ida-Viru county 54.9 55.4 57.5
Jõgeva county 60.7 58.5 62.6
Järva county 64.9 68.6 65.5
Lääne county 70.5 72.7 67.2
Lääne-Viru county 60.7 65.7 67.4
Põlva county 58.2 61.9 63.7
Pärnu county 70.7 70.8 65.6
Rapla county 66.3 64.8 64.0
Saare county 70.5 69.3 64.0
Tartu county 71.5 72.7 72.1
Valga county 53.8 60.0 61.6
Viljandi county 70.4 65.7 67.2
Võru county 63.3 61.2 65.2

Employment rate of persons aged 15–74 | 2012 – 2024
Unit: %
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Males 64.2 65.8 67.3 69.3 69.6 71.6 72.3 72.5 70.3 69.5 71.6 71.5 70.6
Females 57.8 58.7 59.1 61.3 62.0 63.6 64.1 64.6 63.3 64.0 67.0 67.0 67.3

Employment rate by quarter | 4th quarter 2021 – 4th quarter 2024
Unit: %
Males Females
4th quarter 2021 69.7 65.6
1st quarter 2022 71.6 66.5
2nd quarter 2022 70.6 67.1
3rd quarter 2022 72.2 67.0
4th quarter 2022 72.0 67.3
1st quarter 2023 71.0 67.9
2nd quarter 2023 71.4 67.1
3rd quarter 2023 72.0 66.3
4th quarter 2023 71.5 66.8
1st quarter 2024 70.1 66.8
2nd quarter 2024 71.4 68.1
3rd quarter 2024 71.2 67.0
4th quarter 2024 69.8 67.3

Source data in the statistics database: Labour status of population aged 15–⁠74 by sex and age group Source data in the statistics database: Labour status of population aged 15–⁠74 (quarters) Source data in the statistics database: Labour status of population aged 15–⁠74 by county