Country Sheet : Finland

Population : 5,602,800 (January 2024)

Crude natural change rate : -3.3‰ (2022)

Population repartition: 16.3% of - 15 years (2023), 23.3% of +65 years (2023)

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

Crude net migration rate: 2.3‰ (2023 est.)

First time asylum applicants: 5,327 (2023)

Life expectancy: men 79.08 years, women 84.98 years (2023 est.)

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: € 274 880 millions (2023)

GDP per capita (PPS): € 37 010 (2023)

GDP growth : -1% (2023)

Inflation: 0.4% (May 2024)

Public debt: 73% of GDP (Q4 2022)

Unemployment: 8.2% (May 2024)

Public deficit: 73% of GDP (Q4 2022)

Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 51% of GDP (2022)

Budget balance: -6.5% of GDP (2022)

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: 12/19
• in the Eduskunta: 92/200

Next Elections: