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GeographyLocation: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia
Area: Land boundaries: total 557 km, Latvia 267 km, Russia 290 km Coastline: 1,393 km
PeoplePopulation: 1,625,399 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
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 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)
Government
Names:
Type: republic Capital: Tallinn Independence: 6 September 1991 (from Soviet Union) Constitution: adopted 28 June 1992
EconomyNational 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:
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