Transport

The world is interconnected through transport. The sector ensures that bananas from Costa Rica reach our tables or that wooden furniture from Estonia finds a place in Finnish or Swedish homes. A great transport system is an important component of the modern living and business environment.

Transport is divided into land transport (i.e. road and rail), water transport and air transport. Together these modes influence almost all economic activities, including the service sector. The developments and demand of these, in turn, have an impact on the health of the transportation sector. Both local and international economic situation play a role.

Statistics Estonia publishes the following data on transport:

  • number of passengers carried by road, rail, sea and air transport, and freight volumes;
  • data on transport infrastructure;
  • registered vehicles and accidents;
  • economic indicators of transport enterprises.

Well-functioning transport networks promote local business and, more generally, the competitiveness of the economy. Transport indicators help to contribute to faster and more convenient modes of movement, to people and goods reaching destinations safely and without interruption, to quality of roads and environmental sustainability.

Persons killed in road traffic accidents 47
-14.5%
ASCENDING TOTAL 2022
Freight transport by road 6.13 million tonnes
-22.1%
4TH QUARTER 2022
Bus passengers on domestic and international lines 34.62 million
11.15%
4TH QUARTER 2022
Passengers carried by rail 642 thousand
-0.9%
APRIL 2023
Freight transport by rail 1.04 million tonnes
1.5%
APRIL 2023
Passenger cars registered in the traffic register 849,294
2.8%
2022
First registrations of passenger cars 1,934
8.1%
APRIL 2023
Goods transported through ports 7.67 million tonnes
-3.3%
4TH QUARTER 2022
Number of arrived passengers in Tallinn Airport 415,062
0.0%
4TH QUARTER 2022
International passenger transport through ports | 2nd quarter 2021 – 4th quarter 2022
Transport of goods by railway | 2nd quarter 2021 – 4th quarter 2022
Passenger transport by bus | 2nd quarter 2021 – 4th quarter 2022
Passenger transport of transport enterprises by type of transport | 1st quarter 2021 – 4th quarter 2022
Unit: thousand
1st quarter 2021 2nd quarter 2021 3rd quarter 2021 4th quarter 2021 1st quarter 2022 2nd quarter 2022 3rd quarter 2022 4th quarter 2022
Total 27,484 29,522 35,372 34,874 32,341 41,447 42,037 45,171
Land transport 26,965 28,488 33,464 33,549 31,439 39,610 39,678 43,735
Sea transport 499 970 1,765 1,165 834 1,719 2,230 1,340
Inland waterways transport 0 10 31 2 0 14 38 ..
Air transport 20 55 113 158 67 105 92 ..

Traffic accidents with casualties on the roads | 2018 – 2022
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Traffic accidents 1,469 1,406 1,368 1,568 1,700
Traffic accidents with fatalities 64 51 56 40 50
Traffic accidents with the participation of drunk drivers 148 139 132 133 134
Traffic accidents with fatalities with the participation of drunk drivers 12 13 12 16 13
Persons killed 67 52 60 55 47
Persons injured 1,832 1,733 1,577 1,768 1,920

Revenue of transport enterprises by type of transport (quarters) | 2nd quarter 2021 – 1st quarter 2023
Unit: million euros
2nd quarter 2021 3rd quarter 2021 4th quarter 2021 1st quarter 2022 2nd quarter 2022 3rd quarter 2022 4th quarter 2022 1st quarter 2023
Transport total 483.03 453.92 449.60 451.83 585.31 597.16 551.17 470.68
Road 416.47 354.06 351.99 369.19 470.56 462.30 447.83 380.27
Railways 10.85 9.65 9.86 8.98 8.62 8.07 7.51 6.05
Water transport 27.97 42.54 39.88 34.13 50.12 62.56 47.37 45.77
Air transport 27.74 47.67 47.87 39.52 56.01 64.23 48.46 38.59

News

Passenger traffic on domestic ship routes increased last year

According to Statistics Estonia, in 2018, compared to 2017, the number of passengers on the main scheduled domestic ship lines increased by 3%, but the number of international traffic passengers served by Estonian ports decreased by 1%. The freight volume of ports in tonnes increased by around 3%.
Read more 21. March 2019