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Piret Pukk, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that while Estonian residents have been travelling more in the post-pandemic years, they did less travelling in 2025. “Last year, the number of overnight domestic trips was still more than two times bigger than the number of outbound trips. Compared with 2024, the number of domestic trips decreased in each quarter. The number of outbound trips declined for three quarters and then started to rise again in the fourth quarter,” said Pukk, adding that this can be explained by the significant increase in charter flights, as shown by the data

Helle Bunder, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, explained that manufacturing output, which had shown growth for eight months, started to decrease slightly in September. “Although output increased in most larger manufacturing industries, there was a notable fall in production volumes in several medium-sized manufacturing activities. A more significant decrease occurred in the manufacture of shale oil (37.9%), machinery and equipment n.e.c. (22.2%) and beverages (21%),” she added. Bunder mentioned price cuts in September as one of the reasons for the decreased output of shale oil. “In the

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

Helle Bunder, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that production volumes in manufacturing have shown a year-on-year increase each month this year. “There is an upward trend, but the growth has remained slow so far. On a positive note, output in the electronics industry has grown for three months in a row, and in August there was also an increase in the output of the manufacture of wood, which holds the biggest share among economic activities,” noted Bunder. In August, the volume of industrial production was up in two thirds of the manufacturing activities. Looking at the larger

Lauri Veski, the Consumer Price Statistics Service Manager at Statistics Estonia, said that the 0.5% month-on-month decrease in the consumer price index is not unusual – there were several similar decreases last year, most recently in December. “However, the year-on-year increase in June was 2.3%, which is the smallest rate since April 2021. To an extent, this can be explained by the high index value in June 2025. But a more significant factor has been the decrease in prices in more than half of the commodity groups, including food and non-alcoholic beverages which has the biggest weight in

“In the third quarter, overall labour market indicators improved compared with both the third quarter of last year and the second quarter of this year,” stated Tea Vassiljeva, analyst at Statistics Estonia. She added that there were a total of 54,200 unemployed persons in the third quarter, which is 5,000 fewer than in the second quarter and 2,100 fewer than in the third quarter of last year. The unemployment rate (7.1%), i.e. the share of the unemployed in the labour force, was 0.3 percentage points lower in the third quarter than in the same quarter last year (7.4%) and 0.7 percentage points

Luisa Nuka, analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that, year on year, the use of artificial intelligence grew 1.4 times among households and 1.5 times among enterprises. “This is probably related to the wider availability of AI-based tools and services and their integration into our daily lives. The use of AI increased the most in age group 65–74, where the share of users grew more than twice,” noted Nuka. There was also a notable rise in AI use among 35–44-year-olds. “The use of AI did not show such growth among young people, because the share of AI users was already high. Of all age groups

Lauri Veski, team lead of consumer price statistics at Statistics Estonia, said that the fall in the consumer price index in November compared with October was mainly due to cheaper international flights and holiday trips, which had been priced higher in October due to the school holidays. “The index was also affected by rent and electricity being cheaper than in October. Compared with November last year, the index was driven up the most by price increases related to food products and phone services,” explained Veski. Among food products, there has been a significant rise in the prices of non

Lauri Veski, team lead of consumer price statistics at Statistics Estonia, said that, compared with October 2023, the consumer price index was affected the most by price changes related to food and non-alcoholic beverages, recreation, and phone services. “Among food products, the higher prices of non-alcoholic beverages (+20.4%), fruits (+12.4%) and vegetables (+5.5%) drove up the index the most compared with October last year. Sugar was 23.3% and fish and fish preparations 4.6% cheaper,” added Veski. In October, petrol was 11.3% and diesel fuel 12.9% cheaper than in October 2023. Electricity

According to Statistics Estonia, in March, the consumer price index increased by 0.7% compared with February and by 15.3% compared with March 2022. Goods were 14.4% and services 17.2% more expensive than in March last year.