Sectors dominated by foreign founders

EMTAK activities where the foreign-citizen founder share exceeds the Estonian baseline – a view into the most international slices of the economy.

Source: Business Register · EMTAK · citizenshipUpdated: Business Register + EMTAK · dailyMethodology

activities (≥50 companies)

above national baseline

1.3%

Estonian baseline share

3321

foreign-founder companies across visible activities · 156 429 active total

#	EMTAK · activity	Foreign-founder	Active total	Share
1	46211Teravilja, töötlemata tubaka, seemnete ja loomasööda hulgimüük	25	161	15.5%
2	52291Veoste ekspedeerimine	39	295	13.2%
3	50201Kaubavedu merel ja rannavetes	10	76

Methodology

Each row is a 5-digit EMTAK activity. "Foreign-founder" counts active companies whose registered founder set includes at least one non-Estonian citizen. Each company is attributed to a single activity – its declared primary one.

The Estonian baseline of 1.3% is the share of foreign-founder companies across all active EMTAK-coded entities. Activities above baseline are shown in the accent colour; below baseline are grey.

To keep noise out of the ranking, we only show activities with at least 50 active companies and at least 10 foreign-founder companies — small samples produce misleadingly high shares.

Citizenship is captured at registration time – later naturalisation has no effect.

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