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Earnings application

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What are the median wages for different occupations in the various counties of Estonia? How much do earnings of men and women differ? What do the wage and pension projections suggest?

At-risk-of-poverty rate is highest among the elderly, while among families with children it is highest for single parents (corrected on 09.12.2022)

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According to Statistics Estonia, 22.8% of Estonia’s population lived at risk of poverty and 1.4% in absolute poverty in 2021. Compared with 2020, the share of people living at risk of poverty rose 2.2% and the share of people living in absolute poverty fell 0.8%.

Document register

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Document register (only in Estonian) The document register contains documents, legal acts and contracts received and prepared by Statistics Estonia during its activities. Documents are registered no later than on the working day following the day on which they were received, signed or released. The public view of the document register allows viewing electronic documents that are not restricted or published in the Riigi Teataja. Documents containing personal data or registration data of documents with restricted access are not published in the document register. In the public register, a

The results of the population census have been published

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The results of the 2021 population and housing census have been published. The data on the Estonian population collected during the census helps us understand what life is like in Estonia today.

Population census: the average family size in Estonia has gone up

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According to the results of the register-based population and housing census of 2021, there are 341,995 families in Estonia, of which almost half, or 49%, are two-member families. Compared with the previous census, there are fewer families, but the number of people living in them has risen. 154,625 families (or 45%) are raising minor children and 16% of the population lives alone.

Estonian residents have started to consume more domestic meat

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According to Statistics Estonia, 79% of the meat consumed in Estonia in 2020 was locally produced. This is the highest percentage in the last five years. In the case of beef, the situation is favourable, but not so in the case of poultry meat.

Growth in life expectancy has slowed down, but Estonian people live a longer healthy life

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According to Statistics Estonia, in 2020, life expectancy at birth for Estonian inhabitants was 78.8 years. Male life expectancy was 74.4 years and female life expectancy was 82.8 years for the second year in a row. Men are expected to live disability-free for 55.5 years and women for 59.5 years.