2. Population in 2009 (based on
Estonians Statistical Database)
2009 (Nov) Population Men Woman
Estonia 1,340,415 617,299 723,116
Tallinn (capital) 398,594 180,216 218,378
Saaremaa 34,723 16,286 18,437
Kuressaare 14,960 6,809 8,151
4. Estonian's population-pyramid
● The natural growth has been negative in
Estonia for many years now
● This year, in the past few months it has turned
to positive again
● This is the problem of many European
countries
● The other big problem in Estonia's population is
that men die significally more in a younger age
than woman
6. Saaremaa's population-pyramid
● There is a big fall of population form year 25> and
it get's even bigger from year 30>
● This shows the biggest problem – young labour force is
moving away to mainland to gain better job
opportunities and achieve career
● Some of Saaremaa's population will return to the
island later on, but some of them will not
● Proportionally to Estonia as whole, Saaremaa has
more older people living in its society, because of
the return of labour force to the island from main-
land after working there for some time
