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There are some 120,000 businesses in Estonia. Some of them have been founded by e-residents from outside the country (Photo: Peter Teffer)

Estonia wants e-residents to pump money into its economy

Estonia, a country of 1.3 million inhabitants, wants to provide almost 10 million people worldwide with electronic identities in the next 7.5 years.

Adam Rang, head of communications for Estonia's e-residency programme, admitted the goal is “quite ambitious” for one of the EU's smallest member states.

“But we are a startup, we need ambitious goals,” he told journalists, who were visiting Tallinn last week on a press trip organised ahead of Estonia's presidency of the Council of th...

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