Estonia Introduction 2012, CIA World Factbook

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Estonia Introduction 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on February 22,

Background:
After centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, Estonia attained independence in 1918. Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940 - an action never recognized by the US - it regained its freedom in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the last Russian troops left in 1994, Estonia has been free to promote economic and political ties with the West. It joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004, formally joined the OECD in late 2010, and adopted the euro as its official currency on 1 January 2011.

NOTE: 1) The information regarding Estonia on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Estonia Introduction 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Estonia Introduction 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
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a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order

This page was last modified 07-Mar-12

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Estonia Introduction 2012 SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES