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Geography

Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia

Area:
total area: 45,100 sq km
land area: 43,200 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than New Hampshire and Vermont combined

Land boundaries: total 557 km, Latvia 267 km, Russia 290 km

Coastline: 1,393 km


People

Population: 1,625,399 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 22% (female 174,304; male 181,101)
15-64 years: 65% (female 549,473; male 515,426)
65 years and over: 13% (female 139,722; male 65,373)

Population growth rate: 0.53% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 13.9 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 11.93 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 3.31 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 18.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 70.17 years
male: 65.2 years
female: 75.39 years

Total fertility rate: 1.98 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Estonian 61.5%, Russian 30.3%, Ukrainian 3.17%, Byelorussian 1.8%,Finn 1.1%, other 2.13% (1989)

Religions: Lutheran

Languages: Estonian (official), Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, other

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 100%
male: 100%
female: 100%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Estonia
conventional short form: Estonia

Type: republic

Capital: Tallinn

Independence: 6 September 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: adopted 28 June 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $10.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 4%

National product per capita: $6,460

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.3%

Unemployment rate: about 2% in 1994

Electricity:
capacity: 3,420,000 kW
production: 11.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 6,528 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.