While at the beginning of the new century, it was mainly the inhabitants of Estonia who eagerly moved elsewhere in Europe, today more and more citizens of other European Union countries are settling in Estonia.Kristjan Erik Loik, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, looks at who has arrived here in the last 20 years.
In 2000, four years before joining the EU, there were nearly 4,000 EU citizens living in Estonia, according to the census, making up 0.3 percent of the Estonian population.This is roughly the population of Paldiski.
Latvian, Lithuanian and Finnish citizens were the most numerous
Citizens of Latvia (1,410), Lithuania (1,100) and Finland (930) accounted for almost 90 percent of all EU citizens residing in Estonia in 2000, with only Swedish and German citizens also numbering more than 100.
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