{"id":25094,"date":"2024-07-03T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/?p=25094"},"modified":"2024-07-03T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:42:58","slug":"estonias-export-per-capita-was-below-the-eu-average-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-49\/estonias-export-per-capita-was-below-the-eu-average-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia\u2019s export per capita was below the EU average last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Summaryvahepealkirileading16\">\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In 2023, goods were exported from Estonia for EUR 18.2\u00a0billion at current prices, and imported for EUR 21.2\u00a0billion. In comparison to 2022, exports decreased by 16% and imports by 17%. The trade deficit amounted to EUR 3\u00a0billion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwiftINGLISE\">While Estonia\u2019s exports per capita have traditionally exceeded the EU average, last year the situation was the opposite: Estonia\u2019s exports per capita was EUR 13,324, the EU average was EUR 14,523. Imports per capita exceeded the EU average (EUR 14,523).<\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwiftINGLISE\">In 2023, most of the enterprises engaged in foreign trade were micro enterprises with fewer than 10 employees. They formed 78% of all exporting and 84% of importing economic units. However, medium-sized enterprises with 50\u2013249 employees generated the highest monetary value in trade last year. They accounted for 38% of Estonia\u2019s total exports and 29% of total imports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwiftINGLISE\">In 2023, Estonia\u2019s main export partners were Finland (17% of Estonia\u2019s total export), Latvia (12%) and Sweden (9%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwiftINGLISE\">Electrical equipment, metal and metal products were exported most to Finland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwiftINGLISE\">Goods were imported to Estonia mostly from Finland (15% of Estonia\u2019s total import), Germany (12%) and Latvia (11%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, goods were exported from Estonia for EUR 18.2\u00a0billion at current prices, and imported for EUR 21.2\u00a0billion. In comparison to 2022, exports decreased by 16% and imports by 17%. The trade deficit amounted to EUR 3\u00a0billion. While Estonia\u2019s exports per capita have traditionally exceeded the EU average, last year the situation was the opposite: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"class_list":["post-25094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-49","topic-focus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25095,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094\/revisions\/25095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}