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Published: 25 November 2016

Nine out of ten children aged under three live with their parents

According to Statistics Finland's family statistics, 89 per cent of children aged under three live with their both parents. In ten years, this share has gone down by two percentage points. The share of children living in one-parent families has in turn grown by one percentage point.

Children by type of family and age in 2015

Of all babies aged under one, 91 per cent live with two parents and nine per cent with their mother only.

The share of children living with their father or mother grows with age. In 2015, one-fifth of children aged 17 lived with the mother only, while a decade ago the share was 19 per cent. Respectively, four per cent lived with the father only, which is the same percentage as ten years earlier.

Source: Population and Justice Statistics, Statistics Finland

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Reviews

• 1. Average number of family members is 2.8 persons (25.11.2016)
• 2. Four per cent of families entirely foreign-language speaking (25.11.2016)
• 3. Number of families with children goes on falling (25.11.2016)
• 4. Differences between regions in family types married couple still the most common one (25.11.2016)
• 5. Eighty-two per cent of children live in families with two parents (25.11.2016)
• 6. Share of young people with the status of a child grew slightly (25.11.2016)
• 7. One-fifth are living alone (25.11.2016)

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Appendix tables

• Appendix table 1. Family population and average size of family in 1950 - 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 2. Swedish-speaking families by type and number of children of spouses/parents December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 3. Married couples by order of marriage of man and woman on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 4. Families by language of spouses/parents on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 5. Families with underage children by language of parents on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 6. Families by citizenship of spouses/parents on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 7. Families with underage children by citizenship of parents on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 8. Families by country of birth of spouses/parents on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 9. Families with underage children by country of birth of parents on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 10. Families by type of family and number of children aged 17 or under living at home on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 11. Families with underage children by number of children aged 17 or under and family type on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 12. Reconstituted families by family composition and number of children on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 13. Families by age group of children and type of family on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 14. Children aged 0 - 24 by type of family, adopted children in families by age on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 15. Children by age and number of children in the family living at home aged 17 or under on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 16. Men with a family by age and type of family on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)
• Appendix table 17. Women with a family by age and type of family on December 31, 2015 (25.11.2016)

Quality descriptions

• Quality description, families 2015 (25.11.2016)

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Updated 25.11.2016