Estonia

Score EDRIX

6.41

Niveau

Specialized Contender

Scores des piliers EDRIX (normalisés 0–10)

Écosystème des développeurs 8.94 / 10
Adoption par la base 3.73 / 10
Résilience du secteur privé 7.98 / 10
Résilience du secteur public 5.00 / 10

Métriques brutes

Les valeurs sous-jacentes avant normalisation min-max sur l'UE27.

Développeurs GitHub (indice par habitant) 5.23
Part de Linux sur les ordinateurs de bureau et portables 4.07%
Part des navigateurs souverains (Firefox + Opera) 14.04%
Note de souveraineté des domaines — tous (TLD national) 0.541
Note de souveraineté des domaines — secteur public 0.500

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Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Estonia stays fifth at 6.41 (June: 6.53). It has the EU's second-highest developer density (5.23, pillar 8.94) and a good private-sector score (7.98, 9th), but grassroots adoption is weak (3.73, 19th) and the public-sector pillar sits at 5.00 (20th): all three official websites, www.valitsus.ee, www.president.ee and www.tallinn.ee, are served through Cloudflare, and Tallinn's email runs on Microsoft.

Strengths

  • Developer ecosystem (8.94, 2nd).
  • Private-sector hosting (7.98, 9th). Zone Media alone hosts 94 of the 491 measured .ee domains; Telia Eesti and Hetzner follow.

Weaknesses

  • Official websites behind US infrastructure. Government, presidency and capital are all served via Cloudflare; the sites rate 0.67, 0.50 and 0.33.
  • Grassroots adoption (3.73, 19th). A sovereign browser share of 14.04% (17th).
  • Drift. Estonia is among the four countries where the most high-traffic sites moved to non-EU providers since June; 49% of the .ee sample is now hosted outside the EU, 39% on Cloudflare.

Outlook

Estonia's digital state runs its public websites on a US CDN. Domestic front ends for the three official sites would double the public pillar and lift Estonia into the top three.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Estonia was a "contender" and a world leader in practical, top-down e-government, with its entire state architecture serving as a testament to open principles.

2024 progression

Estonia has formalized its commitment to OSS. A 2021 digitalization plan introduced the principle that all taxpayer-funded software should be released under an open source licence. It is also developing "Koodivaramu," its national open source code repository.

Référence historique

Fiche OSOR (PDF, 2024) — le rapport de politique Open Source par pays, utilisé dans le pilier Politiques publiques retiré d'EDRIX 1.0.