Natural resources: shale oil, peat, phosphorite, amber
Land use: arable land: 22% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 11% forest and woodland: 31% other: 36%
Irrigated land: 110 sq km (1990)
Environment:
current issues: air heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide from
oil-shale burning power plants in northeast; contamination of soil and
groundwater with petroleum products, chemicals at military bases
natural hazards: flooding occurs frequently in the spring
international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
@Estonia: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) (July 1995 est.)
Population growth rate: 0.53% (1995 est.)
Birth rate: 13.9 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
Death rate: 11.93 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)