{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"ee-median-income","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/ee-median-income","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/ee-median-income/","title":"Median Equivalised Net Income in Estonia (2025)","description":"Estonia's Median Equivalised Net Income: 17,146 EUR per person in 2025, +6.2% YoY, roughly 75% of the EU-27 average. 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Equivalised income adjusts household disposable income for household size and composition using the modified OECD scale, so the figure reflects typical per-person purchasing power rather than a raw household total."},{"question":"How does Estonia's median income compare with the EU-27 average?","answer":"In 2025, Estonia's median equivalised net income of roughly 17,146 EUR was about 74.7% of the EU-27 average of approximately 22,939 EUR, a gap of around 5,793 EUR. That gap has typically narrowed since 2010, when Estonia's ratio to the EU-27 average stood at roughly 39.4% — Estonia has been closing the distance in most years since as its income growth generally outpaced the EU-27 average."},{"question":"How much has Estonia's median income grown since 2010?","answer":"Estonia's median equivalised net income rose from about 5,727 EUR in 2010 to approximately 17,146 EUR in 2025 — a cumulative gain of roughly 199% over 15 years, nearly tripling. Growth was fairly steady through most of the 2010s, typically running at high-single-digit to low-double-digit annual rates."},{"question":"Why did Estonia's median income jump so sharply in 2022?","answer":"Estonia's median equivalised net income rose from 12,623 EUR in 2021 to 14,827 EUR in 2022 — a +17.5% single-year gain, the largest in the 2010–2025 series. This likely reflects a combination of elevated nominal wage growth in a tight labour market and inflation-linked indexation of pensions and benefits following the 2022 energy-price shock, which hit Estonia's import-dependent economy especially hard and pushed the country to some of the highest inflation rates in the EU that year. Because EU-SILC income figures are denominated in current-year euros and not adjusted for inflation, part of the 2022 increase likely reflects nominal rather than real purchasing-power gains."},{"question":"Has Estonia's income gap with the EU average been narrowing consistently?","answer":"Mostly, yes, though not every single year. Estonia's ratio to the EU-27 average climbed from roughly 39.4% in 2010 to 74.7% in 2025, but the path included a dip around 2011, when Estonia's income fell 2.3% even as the EU-27 average rose. In most years since 2012, though, Estonia's income growth has outpaced the EU-27 average in percentage terms, consistent with the broader income-convergence pattern typically seen among central and eastern European economies since euro adoption in 2011."}]}