Estonia
Republic of Estonia
- Capital
- Tallinn
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Population, 2025
- 1.4 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 45,227 km²
Across Estonia's 21 priced cities, one person needs about $1,900 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $2,282.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
69out of 100
- Purchasing power25%68
- Safety20%77
- Health care15%75
- Climate10%71
- Air quality10%100
- Connectivity10%51
- Cost10%29
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #15
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
70.5
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
18.0
New York = 100
Purchasing power
137.3
New York = 100
One person
$1,900
A month, rent included
Net salary
$2,282
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$841
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$34,418
2025
Growth
+0.6%
2025
Unemployment
8.3%
2025
Inflation
4.8%
2025
Life expectancy
79.3 years
2024
Internet users
92%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 22%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 6.9%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 22%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 24%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 20%
- SourceWikipedia
- Social security, employee
- 3.6%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 33.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Inheritance tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 76.5
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 23.5
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 1.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #74 worldwide
- 94
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #24 worldwide
- 140
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +2%
Cities in Estonia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Tallinn | 68 | 70.5 | $841 | $2,282 | 137.3 | 394K | High confidence, 174 contributors |
| 2Lasnamäe | 64 | — | — | — | — | 115K | Low confidence |
| 3Tartu | 64 | 67.3 | $639 | $1,975 | 136.8 | 91.4K | High confidence, 27 contributors |
| 4Paide | 64 | 60.2 | $337 | $1,693 | 155.9 | 7.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Saku | 63 | 65.8 | — | $1,837 | 149.8 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Narva | 62 | 64.2 | $289 | $1,456 | 132.9 | 54.4K | Medium confidence, 18 contributors |
| 7Parnu | 62 | 58.4 | $536 | $1,684 | 136.2 | 40.2K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 8Haapsalu | 60 | 66.0 | $402 | $1,435 | 117.7 | 9.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 9Valga | 60 | 68.7 | $290 | $1,276 | 110.3 | 11.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Mustvee | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 11Rakvere | 59 | 61.7 | — | $1,276 | 108.9 | 15K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 12Johvi | 59 | 68.5 | $406 | $1,392 | 110.9 | 10.1K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 13Maardu | 59 | 66.3 | — | — | — | 16.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Saue | 59 | 66.3 | — | — | — | 5.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Elva | 59 | 66.3 | — | — | — | 5.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 16Keila | 59 | 66.8 | — | — | — | 10.1K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 17Viljandi | 59 | 69.3 | — | — | — | 17.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 18Tapa | 59 | 67.9 | — | — | — | 5.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Kivioli | 59 | 67.9 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 20Polva | 59 | 69.9 | — | — | — | 5.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 21Kuressaare | 59 | 63.5 | $522 | $1,338 | 103.6 | 12.7K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 22Kohtla-Järve | 56 | 69.4 | — | $964 | 75.8 | 35.4K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 23Voru | 49 | 69.6 | $723 | $566 | 36.6 | 12.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |