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Today, on 1 November, Statistics Estonia officially opened its new office building at Tatari 51 in Tallinn.

According to Statistics Estonia, the consumer price index fell by 0.3% in May 2009 compared to May 2008 and was 0.0% compared to April 2009.

According to Statistics Estonia, the change of the consumer price index in September 2015 was -0.6% compared to August 2015 and -0.7% compared to September of the previous year.

According to Statistics Estonia, the change of the consumer price index in August 2014 was -0.3% compared to July 2014 and -0.7% compared to August of the previous year.

According to Statistics Estonia, 22.5% of Estonia’s population lived at risk of poverty and 3.5% in absolute poverty in 2022. Compared with 2021, the share of people living at risk of poverty decreased by 0.3 percentage points and the share of people living in absolute poverty increased by 2.1 percentage points.

This year’s recipient of the Albert Pullerits young statistician’s prize awarded by Statistics Estonia is Tuuli Jürgenson for her Master’s thesis “Combining Retrospective and Prospective Data for Genome-wide Association Studies”.

According to Statistics Estonia, by preliminary estimation the number of population in Estonia on 1 January 2009 was 1,340,300. Due to the increase in the number of births and to the decrease in the number of deaths the decline in population number slowed down last year.

According to the data of the 2011 Population and Housing Census (PHC 2011), most of the Estonian residents are employees. 3.8% of the persons aged 15 and over are self-employed.

Jane Leppmets, foreign trade statistics analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that goods of Estonian origin accounted for 63% of Estonia’s total exports in July, and this share rose by four percentage points year on year. “Exports of goods of Estonian origin increased by 10% compared with July last year. This increase was supported by the greater exports of mineral products of Estonian origin, including shale oil,” explained Leppmets. “Re-exports, i.e. the exports of previously imported goods, declined by 7% in July year on year, mainly due to the decreased re-exports of mineral fuels,” she