{"id":100258,"date":"2021-12-31T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=100258"},"modified":"2021-12-31T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T09:20:10","slug":"as-many-new-e-residents-as-births-in-estonia-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/as-many-new-e-residents-as-births-in-estonia-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"As many new e-residents as births in Estonia in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The number of e-residents of Estonia has risen by more than 12,000 in 2021 &#8211; a number incredibly close to the number of births recorded in the country this year. At present, there are nearly 90,000 e-residents of Estonia from 177 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">This year, the majority of the new e-residents come from just 3 countries, Russia, Germany, and Spain. With nearly half of all new e-residents being from the European Union.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Lauri Haav, head of the e-Residency scheme, \u201c<i>T<\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>he coronavirus pandemic has spurred an unprecedented momentum towards the transition to teleworking, and e-residency is well-suited to empower all interested parties regarding this<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">The e-Residency programme, which was set up 7 years ago, provides foreign nationals with the possibility to access digital services offered in the Estonian e-governance ecosystem, such as the possibility to set up a business within a matter of minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">To date, around 20,000 companies have been set up by e-residents, creating a direct revenue for the Estonian state budget in excess of 80 million euros.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s2\">Source <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1608449840\/2021-saw-as-many-new-e-residents-as-births-in-estonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ERR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The number of e-residents of Estonia has risen by more than 12,000 in 2021 &#8211; a number incredibly close &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":100259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[13072,13685,13686,13687,13688,13689,13690,13691],"class_list":["post-100258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-estonia-2","tag-lauri-haav","tag-e-resident","tag-e-residency-2","tag-european-union","tag-estonia-births","tag-e-governance","tag-russia"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100266,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100258\/revisions\/100266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}