Finland in numbers

Where Finland stands among the 27 EU member states on income, jobs, prices and inequality, and who lives there. Every figure is a link to the Eurostat table it was read from; where Eurostat publishes nothing, the page says so.

Unemployment rate: Finland is the 2nd highest of the 27 EU member states (2025).

ages 15 to 74, both sexes: 9.7% for Finland, against 6.0% for the EU as a whole.

Reading Finland's numbers

  • Eurostat publishes no figure for Finland for: Statutory minimum wage; Statutory minimum wage, adjusted for prices. These rows are gaps in the tables this site loads; they are left as gaps and never filled from another country or another source.

Where it stands in the EU

Most unusual measures first.

Where it stands in the EU, Finland
MeasurePeriodFinlandEUAmong EU states with a figure
Unemployment rateages 15 to 74, both sexes20259.7%6.0%2nd highest of 27
Income inequality (Gini)0 to 100, higher is more unequal202527.129.221st highest of 27
Top fifth earns this many times the bottom fifthincome quintile share ratio20253.934.6220th highest of 27
Economic growthreal GDP, change on the year20250.8%1.4%joint 19th highest of 27
GDP per headindex, EU = 100202510110010th highest of 27
GDP per head, adjusted for pricespurchasing power standard202542,08741,69910th highest of 27

Ranks compare the 27 EU member states. Eurostat’s figure for Cyprus covers the government-controlled area only.

Work and pay

The latest published figure for each measure.

Work and pay, Finland
MeasurePeriodFinlandEUAmong EU states with a figure
Employment rateages 20 to 64, both sexes202576.3%no figure published19th highest of 27
Statutory minimum wageeuro per monthnone publishedno figure publishedno EU figure loadednot ranked
Statutory minimum wage, adjusted for pricespurchasing power standard per monthnone publishedno figure publishedno EU figure loadednot ranked

Prices and housing

The latest published figure for each measure.

Prices and housing, Finland
MeasurePeriodFinlandEUAmong EU states with a figure
Consumer price inflationall items, annual average change20251.8%2.5%joint 23rd highest of 27
Housing and utilities pricesannual average change20250.6%2.8%23rd highest of 27
House pricesannual change in the house price index2025-2.3%no figure publishedlowest of 26

Income and poverty

The latest published figure for each measure.

Income and poverty, Finland
MeasurePeriodFinlandEUAmong EU states with a figure
At risk of povertyshare below the national poverty line202513.4%no figure publishedjoint 20th highest of 27
At risk of poverty or social exclusionshare of the population202517.2%no figure published20th highest of 27

Who lives here

On 1 January 2024, foreign citizens and stateless people made up 6.6%* of the people living in Finland, against 9.6%* across the EU. Citizenship, birth and migration in Finland → Compare the share across countries →

More on Finland

* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

Where these numbers come from → Cyprus, covered in full →

Finland in numbers · Humanity Observatory