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Europe > Finland > People

FINNISH PEOPLE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Age at first marriage for men 30.5 years [10th of 19]
Age at first marriage for women 28.3 years [7th of 19]
Age structure > 0-14 years 17.3 [195th of 226]
Average size of households 2.5 [7th of 17]
Birth rate 10.39 births/1,000 population Time series [189th of 226]
Chinese population 1,000 [78th of 127]
Divorce rate 1.85 per 1,000 people [9th of 34]
Divorces per 100 marriages 53.2 divorces per 100 marriag [4th of 20]
Ethnic groups
Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.6%, Russian 0.5%, Estonian 0.3%, Roma (Gypsy) 0.1%, Sami 0.1%
Marriage rate 4.8 [27th of 27]
Nobel prize laureates 2 [22nd of 44]
Population 5,244,749 Time series [113rd of 242]
Population growth rate 0.112% Time series [192nd of 235]
Population in 2015 5,359 [114th of 225]
Projected population growth -7.83% [118th of 141]
Sex ratio > Under 15 years 1.04 male(s)/female Time series [133rd of 224]
Teenage birth rate 9.2 [20th of 28]
Total fertility rate 1.73 children born/woman Time series [167th of 225]
Total Population 5,231,372 [111st of 227]
Urbanization 59 [95th of 204]

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SOURCES: 1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics. Spanish Statistical Institute; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN Economic Commission for Europe, NY, 2001), p. 74; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; University Libraries, Ohio University; divorcereform.org2004; OECD; United Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, April 2001; The Nobel Foundation; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; UNICEF; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center Spanish Statistical Institute; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Finland, Republic of Finland, Suomen Tasavalta, Suomi

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