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Estonian statistics show that ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers are disproportionately represented in a number of areas, including: 83% of persons registered as HIV-positive; 70-85% of prostitutes; nearly 60% of prison inmates; 98% of injecting drug users; 66.4% of the homeless population in Tallinn
Census data show that in 2021 an estimated 76% of Estonia's population speak a foreign language. While 10 years ago the most widely spoken foreign language in Estonia was Russian, today it is English. Estonian is spoken by 84% of the population: 67% speak it as a mother tongue and 17% as a foreign language.
Tallinn (/ ˈ t æ l ɪ n /, Estonian: [ˈtɑlʲːinː] ⓘ) [5] [6] is the capital and most populous [7] city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of about 461,000 (as of 2024) [2] and administratively lies in the Harju maakond (county). Tallinn is the ...
Today about 25% of Latvia's population are ethnic Russians. In Estonia, Russians are concentrated in urban areas, particularly in Tallinn and the north-eastern county of Ida-Virumaa. As of 2011, 38.5% of Tallinn's population were ethnic Russians and an even higher number – 46.7% spoke Russian as their mother tongue. [15]
Estonia's population on 31 December 2021 (1,331,824 people) was about 3% higher than in the previous census of 2011. 84% of people residing in Estonia in 2021 lived in Estonia at the time of the previous census as well. 11% had been added by births and 5% by immigration over the ten years 2011–2021.
It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi). [13] As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at birth was 71.54 years (66.49 years for males and 76.43 years for females). [4]
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries.
It covers an area of over 3,969,100 square kilometres (1,532,500 sq mi), with a population of nearly 110 million—making Russia the largest and most populous country in Europe, surpassing second-place Germany. [4] [b] European Russia is the most densely populated region of Russia, with a population density of 27.5 people per km 2 (70 per sq mi ...