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Estonians shunning cash
More Estonians than ever are using debit cards to make payments, instead of cash.
Almost 700,000 card payments are conducted in Estonia every day, over three times more than 10 years ago, the country's central bank said on Friday.
This forms 75 percent of all internal payments in the country, compared to 65 percent in 2005.
The number of cash withdrawals has also declined by roughly 35 percent.
Estonia's success as an e-state started largely due to introduction of online banking in the 1990s. Today, practically all banking transactions are done electronically.
Editor: S. Tambur