ESTONIA: INTERESTING FACTS Population: 1,265,420 (July 2015 est.) !!! Fertility

ESTONIA: INTERESTING FACTS

Population: 1,265,420 (July 2015 est.)

!!! Fertility Rate: 1.59 children born/woman (2015 est.)

Urban Population: TALLINN (capital) 392,000 (2014)

% urban population: 67.5% of total population (2015)

Labor Force: 669,800 (2014 est.)

Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 20.9%

!!!! Obesity 24.5% (2014)

!!!! Ethnicities: Estonian 68.7%, Russian 24.8%, Ukrainian 1.7%, Belarusian 1%, Finn 0.6%

% Forest: 52.1%

GDP: $35.63 billion (2014 est.)

GDP PPP: $26,600 (2014 est.)

Population below poverty line: 22.1% (2013 est.)

Budget: revenues: $9.811 billion

Manpower fit for military service: males age 16-49: 210,854

Military expenditures: 2% of GDP (2013)

THE IMMIGRATION SOLUTION USED BY ESTONIA

Stateless persons: 88,076 (2014); note – following independence in 1991, automatic citizenship was restricted to those who were Estonian citizens prior to the 1940 Soviet occupation and their descendants;

Thousands of ethnic Russians remained stateless when forced to choose between passing Estonian language and citizenship tests or applying for Russian citizenship;

One reason for demurring on Estonian citizenship was to retain the right of visa-free travel to Russia;

Stateless residents can vote in local elections but not general elections; stateless parents who have been lawful residents of Estonia for at least five years can apply for citizenship for their children before they turn 15.