Ministry rejects Statistics Estonia analyst population concerns
0"> If the birth rate in Estonia reached 2.1 children, and external migration were balanced, the population decline would be halved over a 30-year period, Statistics Estonia analyst Mihkel Servinski claims (photo is illustrative). Source: Wikimedia Commons The demographic situation in Estonia is not bleak, mainly thanks to a slowing down of earlier rates of emigration, the social affairs ministry says. Hede Sinisaar, head of the department for analysis and statistics at the ministry, said Saturday that: "The comprehensive approach does not see the current demographic proc...