Country Sheet : Finland

Population : 5,656,900 (2025)

Crude natural change rate : 0.08‰ (2026)

Population repartition: 16,4% under 15 years old, 21.5% over 65 years old (2025)

Foreign residents: 1.7% EU nationals, 2.9% non-EU nationals (2019)

Crude net migration rate: 8.3‰ (2024)

First time asylum applicants: 2,915 (2024)

Life expectancy: men 79,8 years, women 85 years (2026)

Religions: Lutheran 66.6%, Greek Orthodox 1.1%, other 1.7%, none 30.6% (est. 2021)

Ethnic groups: Finnish 87.6%, Swedish 5.2%, Russian 1.4%, others 5.8% (2018 est.)

Source : The CIA World Factbook

Currency: Euro

GDP: € 570,780 billions (2025)

GDP per capita (PPS): € 56,000 (2025)

GDP growth : 0.4% (Q4 2025)

Inflation: 0.6% (February 2025)

Public debt: 89% of GDP (Q4 2025)

Unemployment: 10.4% (January 2026)

Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 29.9% of GDP (2023)

Performance sectors: wood, metals, telecommunications and electronics

Budget balance: -3.7% of GDP (2025)

Source : Eurostat, OECD, Trading Economics

Parliament composition (after the elections of 3rd April 2023)

• 48 seats KOK (National Coalition Party)
• 45 seats PS (The True Finns)
• 43 seats SDP (Social Democratic Party)
• 23 seats KESK (Centre Party)
• 13 seats VIHR (the Greens)
• 11 seats VAS (Left Alliance)
• 10 seats SFP (Swedish People's Party of Finland)
• 5 seats KD (Finnish Christian Democratic Party)
• 1 seat Liik (Movement Now)
• 1 seat Timo Vornanen /tv

• in the government: 10/19
• in the Eduskunta: 91/200

Next Elections: