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Estonia

28/10/2021 by

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Estonia

Country context

  • GDP per capita: 42 185 USD (2021)
  • Government debt: 24.8% of GDP (2020)
  • Population: 1.3 million (2020)
  • General government investment: 18.9% of GFCF (2020)
  • Subnational direct investment: 23.74% of general government (2019)
  • Internet access: 91.8% of all households (2021)
  • Air and GHG emissions: 6.5t CO2 emissions/capita (2020)
  • Energy Transition Index: 69/100 (2021)

Source: OECD and World Economic Forum

Estonia data

Long-term strategic vision for infrastructure

Fiscal sustainability, affordability, and value for money

Efficient and effective public procurement

Transparent, systematic and effective stakeholder participation

Coherent, predictable, and efficient regulatory framework

Whole-of-government approach to manage threats to integrity

Evidence-informed decision making

Strengthen critical infrastructure resilience

Ensuring asset performance throughout its life

Environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure

Consistency of country performance in each pillar

Good infrastructure governance requires improvements across different dimensions. Preferably, countries should make progress in all dimensions involved in each of the pillars. Consistency is measured using the coefficient of variation; pay particular attention to pillars with low consistency as they may require more nuanced analysis.

  • Low
  • High

Case studies

  • National Building Register

Related publications

  • Estonia 2035 (2022)
  • Fostering Effective Energy Transition, World Economic Forum (2021)
  • ITF Transport Outlook 2021
  • Coherent Estonian Development Plan 2021-2030
  • Budgetary Governance in Practice: Estonia

Links to useful data

  • 2022 OECD Governance of Infrastructure Dataset
  • 2020 OECD Governance of Infrastructure Dataset
  • 2018 OECD Governance of Capital Budgeting and Infrastructure Dataset
  • Country profile of Estonia, OECD
  • World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment, Estonia

Relevant public institutions

  • Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication
  • Ministry of the Environment
  • Ministry of the Interior
  • Ministry of Finance

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