rate:9.6% (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA (2000)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 29.8% (1998)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
37 (1999)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
28.2% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $4.622 billion
expenditures: $4.601 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)
Public debt:
5.4% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
potatoes, vegetables; livestock and dairy products; fish
Industries:
engineering, electronics, wood and wood products, textile;
information technology, telecommunications
Industrial production growth rate:
5% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
8.301 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 99.8% hydro: 0.1% nuclear: 0% other: 0.2% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
6.358 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
1.562 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
200 million kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
5,100 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
24,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
1.27 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
1.27 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Current account balance:
$-1.169 billion (2004 est.)
Exports:
$5.701 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment 33%, wood and paper 15%, textiles 14%, food
products 8%, furniture 7%, metals, chemical products (2001)
Exports - partners:
Finland 23.1%, Sweden 15.3%, Germany 8.4%, Latvia 7.9%, Russia
5.7%, Lithuania 4.4% (2004)
Imports:
$7.318 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment 33.5%, chemical products 11.6%, textiles
10.3%, foodstuffs 9.4%, transportation equipment 8.9% (2001)
Imports - partners:
Finland 22.1%, Germany 12.9%, Sweden 9.7%, Russia 9.2%, Lithuania
5.3%, Latvia 4.7% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.503 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$8.373 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$108 million (2000)
Currency (code):
Estonian kroon (EEK)
Currency code:
EEK
Exchange rates:
krooni per US dollar - 12.596 (2004), 13.856 (2003), 16.612 (2002),
17.478 (2001), 16.969 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Estonia
Telephones - main lines in use:
475,000 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
881,000 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: foreign investment in the form of joint
business ventures greatly improved telephone service; substantial
fiber-optic cable systems carry telephone, TV, and radio traffic in
the digital mode; Internet services are available throughout most of
the country - only about 11,000 subscriber requests were unfilled by
September 2000
domestic: a wide range of high quality voice, data, and Internet
services is available throughout the country
international: country code - 372; fiber-optic cables to Finland,
Sweden, Latvia, and Russia provide worldwide packet-switched
service; two international switches are located in Tallinn
