GDP: purchasing power parity - $7.9 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -0.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $5,600 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
3.6%
industry:
30.7%
services:
65.7% (1999)
Population below poverty line: 6.3% (1994 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.2%
highest 10%:
28.5% (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.7% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 785,500 (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: industry 20%, agriculture and forestry 11%, services 69% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 11.7% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$1.37 billion
expenditures:
$1.37 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries: oil shale, shipbuilding, phosphates, electric motors, excavators, cement, furniture, clothing, textiles, paper, shoes, apparel
Industrial production growth rate: 3% (1996 est.)
Electricity - production: 8.742 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
99.98%
hydro:
0.02%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 7.58 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 700 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 150 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: potatoes, fruits, vegetables; livestock and dairy products; fish
Exports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: machinery and appliances 19%, wood products 15%, textiles 13%, food products 12%, metals 10%, chemical products 8% (1999)
Exports - partners: Sweden 19.3%, Finland 18.8%, Russia 8.8%, Latvia 8.8%, Germany 7.3%, US 2.5% (1999)
Imports: $3.4 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities: machinery and appliances 26%, foodstuffs 15%, chemical products 10%, metal products 9%, textiles 8% (1999)
Imports - partners: Finland 23%, Russia 13.2%, Sweden 10%, Germany 9.1%, US 4.7 (1999)
Debt - external: $270 million (January 1996)
Economic aid - recipient: $137.3 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Estonian kroon (EEK) = 100 sents
Exchange rates: krooni (EEK) per US$1 - 15.417 (January 2000), 4.678 (1999), 14.075 (1998), 13.882 (1997), 12.034 (1996), 11.465 (1995); note - krooni are tied to the German deutsche mark at a fixed rate of 8 to 1
Fiscal year: calendar year