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Releases

2021

• Number of foreign-language speakers grew by over 25,000 persons (31.3.2022)

2020

• Foreign-language speakers helped maintain population increase (31.3.2021)

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• Every seventh person aged 30 to 34 is of foreign background (28.5.2021)

2019

• Number of persons aged 70 or over 874,000 (24.3.2020)

(none)

• As many as one-half of Finland's population with foreign background are living in Greater Helsinki (29.5.2020)

annual review

• Childlessness has become more common among men in urban areas and women in rural areas (23.10.2020)

2018

• Population growth smallest since 1970 (29.3.2019)

(none)

• Number of persons with foreign background exceeded 400,000 (19.6.2019)

annual review

• Childlessness becoming more common among people with a lower level of education (22.11.2019)

2017

• Decrease in the number of persons speaking national languages as their native language accelerated (29.3.2018)

Population with foreign background

• Average age of second generation immigrants with foreign background 11 years (20.6.2018)

annual review

• Every fourth person is not a member of any religious community (1.10.2018)

2016

• Arabic became the third largest foreign-language group (29.3.2017)

annual review

• Two-thirds of Finns live in their region of birth (22.9.2017)

2015

• Number of persons speaking national languages as their native language went down for the second year in a row (1.4.2016)

annual review

• One in ten of people aged 25 to 44 are of foreign background (23.9.2016)

2014

• Finland's population was 5,471,753 at the turn of the year (27.3.2015)

annual review

• Nearly every fifth woman aged 45 to 49 has not given birth (10.12.2015)

2013

• Foreign-language speakers account for 90 per cent of the population growth in 2013 (21.3.2014)

Population with foreign background

• Number of persons with foreign background exceeded 300,000 (10.12.2014)

annual review

• Nearly every fifth Finn is aged 65 or over (26.9.2014)

2012

• The share of foreign-language speakers in 2012 population growth was 87 per cent (22.3.2013)

annual review

• Nearly every tenth person aged 25 to 34 of foreign origin (27.9.2013)

2011

• The population of Finland grew most in 20 years (16.3.2012)

annual review

• Finlands population includes 4.8 per cent of people with foreign origin (30.11.2012)

2010

• Over quarter of a million aged 80 and over in Finland (18.3.2011)

annual review

• One 40-year-old woman in five has no children (30.9.2011)

2009

• Number of persons aged under 15 in Finlands population lowest in over 100 years (19.3.2010)

Annual review

• The population development of regions is going into different directions (30.9.2010)

2008

• The population of Finland in 2008 (27.3.2009)

2007

• The population of Finland in 2007 (28.3.2008)

2006

• The population of Finland in 2006 (23.3.2007)