Who lives here?
Finland's population structure in 2025, and how it looked in 2015.
Age group
Finland has more older people and fewer children than it did ten years ago.
- People aged 65 and over20.5%→23.8%in 2015in 2025
- Children aged 0–1416.3%→14.3%in 2015in 2025
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) · StatFin/vaerak/11re · 31 December 2015 and 31 December 2025
How does Finland compare with its Nordic neighbours?
Share of the population aged 65 and over, 2025
- Finland23.6%
- Denmark20.9%
- Sweden20.8%
- Norway19.0%
- Iceland15.9%
Eurostat · demo_pjanind · population on 1 January 2025
Three things worth knowing
Each one shows a different reason why a single national number cannot describe a country.
01·Over time
Child poverty is at its highest point in the 15 years on record
13.8%
of children were below the line in 2024
2010 to 2024, between 11.1% and 13.8%.
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) · StatFin/tjt/14ww · 2010–2024 · people below 60% of median equivalised income
See how it moved02·Across places
The same measure runs 13.6 points apart across the country
13.6pp
Share of persons aged 15 or over with tertiary level qualification. 19 regions, 2025.
Finland as a whole: 34.5%
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) · StatFin/vkour/12bs · 2025
See the regions03·At different scales
The country grew. Most of its municipalities did not.
+165,573
more people than in 2015, counted in 2025
227 lost population in 202581 did not
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) · StatFin/vaerak/11re (2015, 2025) · StatFin/vaerak/11ra (2025)
See whereFinland does not look the same everywhere
Choose a region to see how the picture changes. Every question is asked again there, and answered with the best evidence available for that territory.
19 regions, free to open