Estonia
Score EDRIX
6.41
Niveau
Specialized Contender
Scores des piliers EDRIX (normalisés 0–10)
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 |
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
.eedomains; 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
.eesample 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.