Life in Estonia during one statistical day

During one statistical day, the following events took place in 2009:

43 children were born, of which 21 girls and 22 boys;

44 persons died;

21 abortions were induced;

15 marriages and 9 divorces were registered;

13 persons emigrated from Estonia and 11 immigrated to Estonia;

the number of museum attendance was 6,107, that of the theatre — 2,394 and of the cinema — 4,715;

5,882 tourists stayed in accommodation establishments, of which 2,100 domestic and 3,782 foreign tourists;

490,255 passengers used buses, trolley-buses or trams in internal road transport;

4 traffic accidents with casualties took place;

4.7 million mobile calls were made and 600,548 short messages were sent;

132 offences were registered, of which 65 thefts and 3 drug offences;

23 fires took place;

8 new dwellings were completed.

For the World Statistics Day, a number of events is organised on the initiative of national statistical offices (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/).

Statistics Estonia organises a conference ”Statistics in Focus” on 20 October  (http://www.stat.ee/49579) (only in Estonian).

See the news release dedicated to the World Statistics Day published by European Statistical System on 19 October (http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/49719).