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Estonia

Score EDRIX

6.53

Niveau

Leader

Scores des piliers EDRIX (normalisés 0–10)

Écosystème des développeurs 8.88 / 10
Adoption par la base 3.96 / 10
Résilience du secteur privé 8.28 / 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) 5.14
Part de Linux sur les ordinateurs de bureau et portables 4.05%
Part des navigateurs souverains (Firefox + Opera) 14.24%
Note de souveraineté des domaines — tous (TLD national) 0.563
Note de souveraineté des domaines — secteur public 0.500

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Estonia places sixth at 6.47, the highest dev-ecosystem score in the EU27 after the Netherlands — 8.88 on DR_DEV_ECO. Estonia's per-capita developer density (5.14) reflects its long-running e-state strategy and technical workforce. The surprise weakness for a country famous for digital government: Public Sector Health is only 5.0, meaning just one of the three surveyed official domains is EU-hosted.

Strengths

  • Second-highest developer density in the EU — 5.14 per-capita index, behind only the Netherlands.
  • Strong private-sector hosting — .ee raw rating 0.56, well above the EU27 median.
  • Solid sovereign browser share — 14.24% (Firefox + Opera), middle of the leadership tier.

Weaknesses

  • Public Sector Health at only 5.0 — surprisingly weak for an e-state. Estonia's surveyed official domains include US-hosted infrastructure that holds the public-sector pillar below its peers.
  • Linux desktop share of 4.05% — at the EU27 mean; the famous Estonian tech culture isn't visible in end-user OS choices.

Outlook

Estonia's developer pipeline is structural — it's been the EU's per-capita leader for years and will remain so. The interesting question is whether the public-sector pillar score reflects a real architectural choice (hybrid cloud) or just a small-sample artefact of the three sites we measure. Worth a closer look in the next edition.

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.