EU
Estonia
~32%
Work in exposed occupations
~220 k · estimate · 2025
8.0%
Unemployment
+0.1 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
28.4%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
1.4%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
81.7%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
23%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.76
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
693 k
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
EstoniaEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Estonia
- 48Not exposed
- 21Minimal
- 5Low
- 12Medium
- 10High
- 4Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+4.7%
Change 2025→2035
222 k
Total expected openings
2025–2035
190 k
Replacement demand
+32 k
Expansion
- Information and communications technology professionals+50.3%
- Information and communications technicians+32.8%
- Numerical and material recording clerks+30.0%
- Health professionals+27.7%
- General and keyboard clerks+17.2%
- Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers+15.9%
- Sales workers−18.2%
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers−22.9%
- Protective services workers−24.4%
- Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers−31.6%
- Stationary plant and machine operators−44.7%
- Health associate professionals−51.4%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
13%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
37%
of skills will change
global: 39%
95%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.