Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 15 to 64 Years for Estonia (LREM64TTEEQ156S) from Q1 2000 to Q2 2025 about Estonia, employment-population ratio, 15 to 64 years, population, employment, and rate.

Actual value and historical data chart for Estonia Employment To Population Ratio 15 Plus Total Percent

Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, total (%) (national estimate) in Estonia was reported at 35.38 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Estonia - Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, total (national estimate) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.

Estonia - Population and employment - national accounts was 0.60% in September of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Estonia - Population and employment - national accounts - last updated from the EUROSTAT on November of 2025. Historically, Estonia - Population and employment - national accounts reached a record high of 4.40% in March of 2023 and a record low of -5.50% in March of 2009.

Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 15 to 64 Years for Estonia (LREM64TTEEA156S) from 2000 to 2024 about Estonia, employment-population ratio, 15 to 64 years, population, employment, and rate.

Estonia EE: Labour Force With Intermediate Education: % of Total Working-age Population data was reported at 67.566 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 66.162 % for 2016. Estonia EE: Labour Force With Intermediate Education: % of Total Working-age Population data is updated yearly, averaging 65.268 % from Dec 1997 (Median) to 2017, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 67.566 % in 2017 and a record low of 61.348 % in 2002. Estonia EE: Labour Force With Intermediate Education: % of Total Working-age Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Estonia – Table EE.World Bank: Labour Force. The percentage of the working age population with an intermediate level of education who are in the labor force. Intermediate education comprises upper secondary or post-secondary non tertiary education according to the International Standard Classification of Education 2011 (ISCED 2011).; ; International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2018.; Weighted average;

Actual value and historical data chart for Estonia Share Of Youth Not In Education Employment Or Training Total Percent Of Youth Population

Estonia EE: Share of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: Total: % of Youth Population data was reported at 9.140 % in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 10.840 % for 2015. Estonia EE: Share of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: Total: % of Youth Population data is updated yearly, averaging 11.445 % from Dec 2003 (Median) to 2016, with 14 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15.140 % in 2004 and a record low of 8.910 % in 2006. Estonia EE: Share of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: Total: % of Youth Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Estonia – Table EE.World Bank: Employment and Unemployment. Share of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is the proportion of young people who are not in education, employment, or training to the population of the corresponding age group: youth (ages 15 to 24); persons ages 15 to 29; or both age groups.; ; International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in November 2017.; Weighted Average;

This scatter chart displays male population (people) against self-employed workers (% of total employment) in Estonia. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

Estonia EE: Labour Force With Advanced Education: % of Total Working-age Population data was reported at 77.960 % in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 78.140 % for 2015. Estonia EE: Labour Force With Advanced Education: % of Total Working-age Population data is updated yearly, averaging 77.215 % from Dec 1997 (Median) to 2016, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 79.700 % in 2006 and a record low of 74.260 % in 2001. Estonia EE: Labour Force With Advanced Education: % of Total Working-age Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Estonia – Table EE.World Bank: Labour Force. The percentage of the working age population with an advanced level of education who are in the labor force. Advanced education comprises short-cycle tertiary education, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent education level, a master’s degree or equivalent education level, or doctoral degree or equivalent education level according to the International Standard Classification of Education 2011 (ISCED 2011).; ; International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in November 2017.; Weighted Average;

Estonia - Gender employment gap was 1.70 % of total population in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Estonia - Gender employment gap - last updated from the EUROSTAT on December of 2025. Historically, Estonia - Gender employment gap reached a record high of 6.80 % of total population in December of 2016 and a record low of 0.50 % of total population in December of 2010.

This scatter chart displays vulnerable employment (% of total employment) against rural population (people) in Estonia. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

Abstract

The Estonian Labour Force Survey started in 1997 as an annual survey. Since 2000 the Estonian LFS has been organised as a continuous quarterly survey. The survey covers the whole country. Both private and collective households are surveyed.

Estonia Labour Force Survey provides population estimates for the main labour market characteristics, such as employment, unemployment, inactivity, hours of work, occupation, economic activity and much else, as well as important socio-demographic characteristics, such as sex, age, education, household characteristics and regions of residence. Estonia LFS uses methodology of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which guarantees the comparability of the data.

The sample size per quarter is approximately 2,500 households, with a sampling rate of approximately 0.5% of the working age population. The sampling frame is based on the 2000 Population and Housing Census database, comprising all registered persons 15-74 years old.

Since 2001, the Estonian Labour Force Survey questionnaire includes an ad hoc module, the contents of which vary from year to year. The module is compiled in accordance with the relevant EU regulations. The aim of the added module is to gather detailed information about the aspect of life directly relevant to the labour market, which is comparable in all EU Member States. In 2004, the ad hoc module was work organisation and working time arrangements.

Geographic coverage

National

Universe

All persons 15-74 years old with permanent residence in Estonia.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sample size per quarter is approximately 2,500 households, with a sampling rate of approximately 0.5% of the working age population.

The sampling design is a stratified systematic two-phase sampling of individuals, whose households are included in the sample. The 15 counties of Estonia and Tallinn are divided into four strata according to the population numbers (I - Tallinn, II - four bigger counties, III - ten smaller counties, IV - Hiiu county) and different inclusion probabilities are used in strata, the highest being for Hiiu county. The sampling frame is based on the 2000 Population and Housing Census database, comprising all registered persons 15-74 years old.

In the first phase the sample is selected by systematic sampling inside strata and the information on the size of sampled households is collected. In the second phase the sample is grouped by the number of persons aged 15-74 years in the household of the sampled individual. The final sample is then selected by systematic sampling from each size group with inclusion probability inverse to the size. This yields an equal probability sample of households (and its 15-74 years old members) inside strata. All persons aged 15-74 years in the households of the final sample are interviewed. Every sampled household is interviewed for four quarters according to the rotation pattern 2-(2)-2.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The main objective of the Estonian Labour Force Survey is to get data about participation of population of Estonia in the labour market; therefore the main part of the questionnaire includes questions concerning the respondents’ activities in the reference week. The employed persons are asked about economic activity of the main job, occupation, labour status, work relations, place of work, usual and actual working time, about secondary jobs, etc. The unemployed persons are asked about the steps taken to find a job, the duration of job seeking, the characteristics of previous job and a job they are looking for, etc. The persons who do not work and do not look for a job (the inactive persons) are asked about the reason for inactivity, sources of subsistence, etc.

Eurostat’s ad hoc modules included in the Estonian Labour Force Survey 2004 is Work organisation and working time arrangements (Section D).

Cleaning operations

Starting with 2000 until the full implementation of CAPI-interviewing in the 4th quarter of 2005 the entry of the data was performed centrally. The co-ordinators of the interviewers' network collected the filled questionnaires from interviewers after every two weeks and sent the paper questionnaires to Statistics Estonia. In case of inconsistencies that appeared during data entering, the interviewer who had made a mistake was contacted and the data were adjusted. After the end of the field work and entering of all data, the Blaise data files were converted into SAS format and more complicated relations, which could not be made in Blaise, were checked. In case of inconsistencies corrections were made again by contacting the interviewer.

Since 2001, the data entry program was improved so that in case of inconsistencies operators had a possibility to add a short comment about the nature of the error to the database as a link to the corresponding question of the questionnaire. The aim of it was to analyze the errors made by interviewers and find out the reasons for that (lack of the interviewer's knowledge, unclear questions, etc.). The co-ordinators of the interviewers' network received the quarterly report of mistakes and dealt with the interviewers whose work quality was low.

Response rate

The response rate in 2004 was 72.7%.

Estonia EE:(GDP) Gross Domestic Productper Person Employed: 2017 PPP data was reported at 73,340.393 Intl $ in 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 78,131.509 Intl $ for 2021. Estonia EE:(GDP) Gross Domestic Productper Person Employed: 2017 PPP data is updated yearly, averaging 60,666.414 Intl $ from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2022, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 78,131.509 Intl $ in 2021 and a record low of 28,734.028 Intl $ in 1995. Estonia EE:(GDP) Gross Domestic Productper Person Employed: 2017 PPP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Estonia – Table EE.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. GDP per person employed is gross domestic product (GDP) divided by total employment in the economy. Purchasing power parity (PPP) GDP is GDP converted to 2017 constant international dollars using PPP rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP that a U.S. dollar has in the United States.;World Bank, World Development Indicators database. Estimates are based on employment, population, GDP, and PPP data obtained from International Labour Organization, United Nations Population Division, Eurostat, OECD, and World Bank.;Weighted average;

Labor force with intermediate education (% of total working-age population with intermediate education) in Estonia was reported at 70.45 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Estonia - Labor force with intermediate education (% of total) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

Estonia had the largest share of employees in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in the total number of employees among Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, at *** percent in 2024. Lithuania and Croatia followed.

Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: 15 Years or over for Estonia (LREMTTTTEEA156N) from 2000 to 2024 about Estonia, 15 years +, employment-population ratio, population, employment, and rate.

In 2024, the highest share of people outside the labor force as a percentage of the total working-age population in the CEE region was in Romania at 32.6 percent. Estonia recorded the lowest share of the inactive population at 17.8 percent.

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Abstract

The Population and Housing Census 2000 was prepared and conducted according to the recommendations of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), which guarantee that the census data are internationally comparable. Also the comparability with the data of previous censuses carried out in Estonia was taken into account. Census 2000 was carried out from March 31 to April 9.

The Statistical Office of Estonia was responsible for conducting the Census. The purpose of the Census was to collect data on the size, composition and distribution of the country's population and access housing stock and conditions. The moment of the Census was 00.00 on 31 March 2000; the data collected in the Census reflect the characteristics of housing and of the population as of the moment of the Census.

The content of the Census data and the data collection methods were developed in the Statistical Office in cooperation with the experts of different fields. Regulation of the Government of the Republic 5 March 1999 approved the Census questionnaires and Census rules.

Geographic coverage

The Census covered all country.

The Statistical Office of Estonia (SOE) launched the mapping programme for the 2000 Population and Housing Census in 1995. After completing the test areas the specifications for the digital Census maps were finalized. According to the Specification, 1:50 000 maps in rural areas and 1:5 000 maps in urban areas were drawn. The specification was optimized to create a cartographic basis for the Census planning (Census area (CA) delineation) and for the Census itself (maps for enumerators, maps for supervisors, etc.). The Census mapping process was outsourced from SOE. The work was done by two companies - one in urban, another in rural areas. The production methodology was different in urban and rural areas. In rural areas, paper maps of the 1989 Census were used as a base source material, digitized by the mapping company and updated by local governments. In urban areas, the existing maps and orthophotos were used as a base source and the maps were updated by the mapping company. For rural and urban areas the municipalities compiled household lists including the number of inhabitants in each building or apartment. The purpose of household lists was to provide information about the number of inhabitants for the delineation of enumeration areas (EA).

The borders of Census units were marked on digital Population Census maps and the maps were printed for Census purposes. SOE stores digital maps in urban areas in Mapinfo, in rural areas in ArcView software and household lists in Foxpro software. The Census maps were ready by December 1999. Digital Population Census maps with the registered borders of administrative and settlement units are the basis for presenting the Census results in a cartographic way and for the development of Census GIS.

Universe

The Census covered: - persons who were in the Republic of Estonia at the moment of the Census (March 31, at 00.00) (excluding the diplomatic staff of foreign diplomatic missions and consular posts and their family members and persons in active service in foreign army); - persons who resided in the Republic of Estonia but who were in foreign states temporarily for a term of up to one year; - diplomatic staff of diplomatic missions and consular posts of the Republic of Estonia and their family members, who were in a foreign state at the moment of the Census; - residential buildings and other buildings used for habitation, and apartments and other dwellings situated therein (excluding buildings of foreign diplomatic missions and consular posts and dwellings situated therein).

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

PHC 2000 was conducted using two types of questionnaires - the Personal Questionnaire containing 31 questions, and the Housing Questionnaire with 12 questions. The Census questionnaires collected personal, household information as well as dwelling data.

1. Personal data include: 1.1. first and surname; personal identification code; 1.2. person’s and his/her parents’ place of birth, person’s permanent place of residence and location at the Census moment, person’s permanent place of residence on 12 January 1989, year of arrival in Estonia, address of the place of work; 1.3. sex, date of birth, citizenship, ethnic nationality, mother tongue, knowledge of languages (answering the question is voluntary), marital status, number of children given birth to, mother’s age at the time of birth of the first child; 1.4. main sources of subsistence, length of working week in the week preceding the Census (number of hours worked), social status (in military service, not working, actively seeking work, ready to start work, student (pupil), pensioner, homemaker, not working for other reasons), name of the main place of work / main employer (answering the question is voluntary), economic activity of the main place of work, employment status at the main place of work (employee with stable contract, other employee, entrepreneur-employer, farmer with salaried employees, self-employed person, freelancer, farmer without salaried employees, contributing family workers in a family enterprise, farm, member of commercial association), occupation at main place of work, length of usual working week; 1.5. level of curriculum that the person has completed or studies currently, highest level of vocational or professional education completed, highest level of general education completed; 1.6. long-term disability or illness determined by the medical commission of experts; 1.7. religious affiliation and faith confessed (answering the question is voluntary).

2. Household data describe: 2.1. type of institution; 2.2. list of household members, relationship of each household member to the reference person, family relationships between the household members, permanent and temporary members of the household, duration of absence of a permanent household member in months, duration of presence of a temporary household member; 2.3. legal basis for the use of the dwelling; 2.4. the links between the household and agricultural activity.

3. Data on dwelling include: 3.1. type, form of ownership, total area, number of rooms, existence of a kitchen, plumbing and heating (water supply system, sewage disposal system, hot water, bath (shower), sauna, flush toilet, electricity, gas, central heating, electric heating); 3.2. address, type and period of construction of the building containing dwellings.

Cleaning operations

Two scanners were used for optical data entry. The application software for data processing were worked out in co-operation with the company AS AboBase Systems and based on Oracle tools. The scanning of the Census questionnaires was performed in 2000 from 10 May to 22 September. During that period 3,505,451 questionnaires were scanned. 135 operators who had passed the training were engaged in the data processing.

Data appraisal

For evaluating the coverage of the Census and the quality of the Census data, a post-enumeration sample survey was organized. It covered about 1% of the population and a stratified random sample of enumeration areas was drawn. The post-enumeration survey was carried out from 14 to 19 April 2000 in 50 enumeration areas. Comparison of the Census data and the data collected in the post-enumeration survey showed that the undercoverage of the Census was on an average 1.2%.