Median Equivalised Net Income in Estonia (2025)
Estonia's Median Equivalised Net Income: 17,146 EUR per person in 2025, +6.2% YoY, roughly 75% of the EU-27 average. Eurostat (ILC_DI03), 2010–2025.
Data
| Year | EUR per person | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,146 | +6.2% |
| 2024 | 16,140 | +6.7% |
| 2023 | 15,128 | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 14,827 | +17.5% |
| 2021 | 12,623 | +3.2% |
| 2020 | 12,228 | +6.7% |
| 2019 | 11,461 | +8.9% |
| 2018 | 10,524 | +12.1% |
| 2017 | 9,384 | +8.5% |
| 2016 | 8,645 | +9.6% |
| 2015 | 7,889 | +9.3% |
| 2014 | 7,217 | +9.7% |
| 2013 | 6,579 | +9.9% |
| 2012 | 5,987 | +6.9% |
| 2011 | 5,598 | -2.3% |
| 2010 | 5,727 | n/a |
About this Dataset
Estonia's median equivalised net income (the typical per-person disposable income after adjusting household income for household size) reached approximately 17,146 EUR in 2025, according to Eurostat's EU-SILC series (ILC_DI03). That marks a 6.2% increase from 16,140 EUR in 2024, continuing a run of consistent annual gains through most of the 2010–2025 series.
For analysts benchmarking purchasing power across European markets, the more useful reference point is Estonia's position relative to the EU-27 average. In 2010, Estonia's median income of 5,727 EUR was only about 39.4% of the EU-27's 14,521 EUR — reflecting the country's still-developing post-accession income base. That gap has typically narrowed in most years since, with Estonia's ratio reaching 74.7% in 2025, an increase of roughly 35.3 percentage points over 15 years.
Growth has not been perfectly linear. Estonia's income dipped slightly in 2011 (-2.3%) before climbing steadily through the mid-2010s at high-single-digit to low-double-digit annual rates, then accelerated to +17.5% in 2022, the largest single-year gain in the series. That jump likely reflects a tight labour market and inflation-linked indexation of income sources amid the 2022 energy-price shock, which hit Estonia's import-dependent economy particularly hard. Because EU-SILC income figures are denominated in current-year euros and not adjusted for inflation, part of the 2022 surge likely reflects nominal wage growth amid elevated inflation rather than an equivalent rise in real purchasing power.
Coverage and methodology: Eurostat compiles median equivalised net income annually from EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) microdata, adjusting household disposable income for household size and composition using the modified OECD equivalence scale (first adult = 1, each additional adult 14+ = 0.5, each child under 14 = 0.3). Figures are denominated in current-year euros and are not adjusted for inflation, so cross-year comparisons reflect nominal rather than real purchasing-power changes. The EU-27 aggregate used for comparison is Eurostat's EU27_2020 composition. Statistics Estonia (Statistikaamet) provides the underlying survey data feeding into this series.