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Population 31.12. by Area, Sex, Language, Information and Year

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Population 31.12. by Area, Sex, Language, Information and Year
	Population 31 Dec
	2018	2019	2020	2021
WHOLE COUNTRY
Total
Total	5,517,919	5,525,292	5,533,793	5,548,241
NATIONAL LANGUAGES, TOTAL	5,126,173	5,112,648	5,100,946	5,090,199
Finnish	4,835,778	4,822,690	4,811,067	4,800,243
Swedish	288,400	287,954	287,871	287,933
Sami	1,995	2,004	2,008	2,023
FOREIGN LANGUAGES, TOTAL	391,746	412,644	432,847	458,042
Abkhaz	2	3	4	5
Afar	45	46	52	56
Avestan	0	0	0	1
Afrikaans	91	107	119	122
Aymara	2	2	2	2
Akan	449	466	487	514
Albanian	10,990	11,806	12,664	13,830
Amharic	1,573	1,606	1,662	1,718
Arabic	29,462	31,920	34,282	36,466
Aragonese	1	1	1	1
Armenian	310	316	331	351
Assamese	17	15	17	22
Avaric; Avar; Avarish	10	14	14	14
Azerbaijani	491	516	534	573
Bambara	15	16	17	21
Basque	17	16	17	19
Bashkir	10	12	14	14
Bengali, (Bangla)	3,973	4,417	4,749	5,131
Bihari languages	2	2	2	2
Bislama	1	1	1	1
Bosnian	2,363	2,428	2,452	2,478
Bulgarian	2,840	2,954	3,114	3,264
Burmese	662	680	688	703
Cree	8	7	6	6
Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian	1	1	2	3
Dzongkha	1	1	1	3
English	20,713	22,052	23,433	25,638
Spanish; Castilian	8,099	8,598	9,151	9,891
Esperanto	1	1	1	1
Southern ndebele	2	2	3	3
Sotho, Southern	4	4	4	5
Ewe	113	116	118	129
Fijian	3	3	6	6
Fula, Fulah, Pulaar, Pular	143	159	174	179
Faroese; Faeroese	20	15	16	15
Galician	1	1	1	2
Ganda	108	117	137	153
Georgian	207	213	234	257
Kalaallisut; Greenlandic	2	2	2	2
Guaraní	3	3	3	3
Gujarati	171	205	224	263
Haitian	0	0	0	1
Hausa	193	210	223	236
Hebrew	455	469	467	475
Herero	3	3	3	3
Hindi	2,373	2,741	2,944	3,245
Dutch	1,650	1,754	1,851	2,029
Ido	24	25	24	26
Igbo	835	888	938	1,046
Irish	14	14	15	14
Indonesian	664	744	803	845
Icelandic	156	164	166	174
Italian	2,857	2,973	3,130	3,356
Javanese	6	8	8	9
Japanese	1,515	1,617	1,689	1,738
Yiddish	1	1	1	2
Yoruba	985	992	1,044	1,145
Kannada	223	277	289	322
Kanuri	2	4	4	5
Kashmiri	36	40	43	45
Catalan; Valencian	107	114	120	131
Luba-Katanga	50	53	52	51
Kazakh	115	143	154	183
Central Khmer	347	365	376	384
Quechua	3	3	4	5
Chinese	12,407	13,064	13,778	14,780
Kikuyu; Gikuyu	280	277	282	304
Kirghiz; Kyrgyz	69	82	94	104
Komi	29	29	29	30
Kongo	167	162	156	157
Korean	834	877	954	997
Greek (modern)	1,643	1,715	1,789	1,866
Croatian	380	406	433	450
Kuanyama; Kwanyama	5	5	5	5
Kurdish	14,054	14,803	15,368	15,850
Welsh	2	3	3	5
Lao	55	63	66	66
Latin	1	1	1	1
Latvian	2,062	2,300	2,604	3,023
Lithuanian	1,491	1,584	1,672	1,796
Limburgish, Limburgan, Limburger	0	0	0	0
Lingala	900	920	929	935
Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch	13	14	12	12
Western Frisian	1	1	1	1
Macedonian	326	342	356	379
Malagasy	15	12	11	13
Malay	151	150	159	152
Malayalam	474	583	633	719
Maltese	28	28	29	34
Marathi	429	552	636	710
Moldavian	112	176	217	260
Mongolian	66	81	90	97
Nauru	2	2	2	1
Ndonga	41	45	49	51
Nepali	3,937	4,300	4,636	5,048
Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja	27	34	69	82
Norwegian	731	750	781	821
Oriya	77	87	85	97
Oromo	172	168	174	191
Ossetian, Ossetic	17	16	18	18
Pali	0	0	0	0
Panjabi; Punjabi	1,076	1,130	1,193	1,240
Pushto; Pashto	1,181	1,257	1,360	1,527
Persian, Farsi	13,017	14,118	15,105	16,432
Northern Ndebele	9	9	8	10
Portuguese	3,024	3,280	3,558	3,837
Polish	5,441	5,567	5,695	5,982
French	4,402	4,666	4,966	5,352
Romansh	1	1	0	0
Romanian	4,416	4,992	5,463	6,066
Kinyarwanda	1,051	1,111	1,226	1,308
Rundi	61	61	67	76
German	6,317	6,559	6,841	7,258
Samoan	2	2	3	3
Sango	9	9	9	10
Serbian	603	661	727	778
Serbo-Croatian	1,306	1,288	1,282	1,252
Sindhi	90	100	105	111
Sinhala; Sinhalese	403	451	472	583
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic	3	2	2	2
Slovak	576	640	687	755
Slovene	161	161	171	185
Somali	20,944	21,920	22,794	23,656
Shona	60	63	71	73
Sundanese	12	11	12	12
Swahili	2,066	2,328	2,560	2,675
Swati	2	2	4	4
Tajik	48	50	57	67
Tagalog	4,014	4,736	5,315	5,934
Tahitian	1	1	1	1
Tamil	1,920	2,113	2,230	2,409
Danish	621	645	652	669
Tatar	196	199	207	220
Telugu	934	1,063	1,138	1,242
Thai	9,763	10,179	10,553	10,831
Tigrinya	1,235	1,477	1,662	1,842
Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central	15	15	16	16
Tonga, Tonga Islands	8	8	8	9
Chamorro	3	3	3	2
Czech	742	796	847	874
Chechen	671	702	736	772
Tsonga	0	0	0	0
Chuvash	3	3	3	3
Tswana	10	10	10	10
Turkish	8,127	8,840	9,492	10,039
Turkmen	493	536	568	606
Twi	618	643	670	710
Uighur; Uyghur	258	288	316	327
Ukrainian	4,411	5,108	5,961	7,278
Hungarian	2,962	3,011	3,088	3,243
Urdu	3,172	3,519	3,846	4,163
Uzbek	782	1,032	1,095	1,269
Belarusian	189	204	222	250
Venda	2	2	2	2
Russian	79,225	81,606	84,190	87,552
Vietnamese	10,440	11,094	11,562	12,310
Estonian	49,691	49,427	49,551	50,232
Wolof	293	324	336	348
Xhosa	4	4	3	3
Zhuang; Chuang	1	1	1	1
Zulu	14	16	16	16
Other language	7,255	7,641	7,955	8,225
Unknown	854	881	946	988

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Footnotes

Documentation of statistics ... confidential For reasons of privacy protection, cells with less than 10 cases of language by municipality have been marked with three dots.

Starting from 1750 Population statistics have been digitised into PDF format in the National Library's Doria service:
Publications on Population structure and Vital statistics in Doria (in Finnish)
Publications on Population censuses in Doria (in Finnish)

Area

These statistics apply the regional division of 1 January 2025 to the whole time series. Data for merged municipalities have been combined. Partial municipal mergers have not been taken into account in the years preceding the merger.

Language

Languages (ISO 639-1)
The national languages are Finnish, Swedish and Sami

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Population 31 Dec

Population at the end of the statistical reference period.

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