Download or read book OECD Rural Studies Shrinking Smartly in Estonia Preparing Regions for Demographic Change written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many lower density regions in the OECD face shrinkage, with projections suggesting that half of Europe will need to manage decline in remote regions by 2050. Half of Estonia’s counties experienced population decline greater than 25% since 1991.