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Compared with May 2025, the rise in the consumer price index was influenced the most by the 10.4% increase in transport costs and the 5.4% higher housing-related costs. “Prices in transport were mainly driven up by petrol and diesel fuel prices which rose by 14.3% and 32.3%, respectively. The increase in housing costs was primarily due to 9.4% more expensive electricity and the 19.5% increase in the cost of natural gas. The index rise was slowed down by the prices of clothing and footwear which fell by 3.9% in May year on year,” said Mark Herman Ilumets, consumer price statistics analyst at

Germo Valgenberg, leading analyst in the producer price statistics team at Statistics Estonia, said that, year on year, the producer price index rose for the third month in a row. “The rise in November was slightly bigger than in October and September,” he noted. “Compared with November 2024, the index was most affected by price increases in electricity and heat energy production and in the manufacture of wood and wood products, peat products and crushed stone,” said Valgenberg. Falling prices in the manufacture of fuel oils, textiles and basic metals had the opposite effect on the index

According to Statistics Estonia, in the third quarter of 2021, the gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 8.6% year on year. The GDP at current prices was 7.9 billion euros.

Lauri Veski, the Consumer Price Statistics Service Manager at Statistics Estonia, said that the year-on-year increase in prices has been very small in the last three months – the last time that prices rose so little was in spring 2021. “Although housing and transport costs have increased compared with August last year, the index was driven down by the decrease in the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages,” explained Veski. Housing costs were influenced by the rise in the prices of refuse collection (53.6%), wood fuel (10%) and electricity (3.7%) compared with August last year. Fuels were

The total production value of Estonian construction enterprises in 2025 was 4 billion euros, including 2.5 billion euros’ worth of building construction and 1.5 billion euros’ worth of civil engineering. Compared with 2024, the volume of building construction fell by 1% and the volume of civil engineering works (roads, bridges, port facilities, pipelines, communication and electricity lines, sports fields, etc.) was down by 2%. Merike Sinisaar, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that construction volume decreased for the fourth year in a row. “The trend was positive at the beginning

More than 185,100 foreign and 135,100 domestic tourists were accommodated in Estonia in May. Piret Pukk, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that the number of nights spent also increased compared with May 2025. “There were about 583,600 overnight stays in accommodation establishments in May – this is 6% more than in May last year,” explained Pukk. Foreign tourists stayed for over 362,100 nights and domestic tourists for nearly 221,500 nights. The number of nights spent by foreign tourists was up by 10% and the number of nights spent by domestic tourists did not change year on year. In

Eveli Voolens, team lead of social statistics at Statistics Estonia, noted that Statistics Estonia uses the data of the employment register of the Estonian Tax and Customs Board to estimate the number of occupied posts and labour turnover. Data on job vacancies, however, are collected by Statistics Estonia using a questionnaire. The rate of job vacancies was 1.6% in the third quarter of 2025 The total number of vacant and occupied posts in the third quarter was 588,494. The number of vacant posts was the highest in education (2,025) and in wholesale and retail trade (1,264). The number of

According to Statistics Estonia, in 2020, there were 25 full-length films produced in Estonia, including 12 feature films, 12 documentaries and one animation.