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 — the 20th highest share of the 27 EU states that publish it.

The largest single foreign citizenship among residents is Estonia: 50,444 people on 1 January 2025.

In 2024, 63,965 people moved to Finland and 16,914 left: a difference of 47,051^*, more arrivals than departures.

Citizens and foreigners

Residents of Finland on 1 January 2024, by the citizenship they hold. Every line is a separate figure Eurostat publishes; the site adds none of them together.

Residents of Finland by citizenship, 1 January 2024
Citizenship	People	Share of residents
All residents	5,603,851	—
Foreign citizens and stateless peopleOne group Eurostat publishes, shown beside the lines below	371,345	6.6%^*
Citizens of Finland	5,230,878	93.3%^*
Citizens of other EU countries	107,881	1.9%^*
Citizens of countries outside the EU	262,151	4.7%^*
Stateless people	1,313	0.02%^*
Citizenship not stated	1,628	0.03%^*

Against the other EU states

Foreign citizens and stateless people as a share of residents on 1 January 2024, for the states ranked next to Finland. Only states that publish both figures that year are ranked.

Foreign-citizen share, Finland and the states ranked next to it, 1 January 2024
Rank	Country	Foreign citizens and stateless people, share of residents
18	Sweden	7.9%^*
19	Greece	7.1%^*
20	Finland	6.6%^*
21	Lithuania	4.7%^*
22	Croatia	3.0%^*
—	European Union (27, from 2020) (reference, not ranked)	9.6%^*

Largest foreign citizenships

Residents of Finland by individual citizenship on 1 January 2025, the ten largest of the 197 citizenships Eurostat publishes. This is the citizenship people hold, not where they were born and not their ethnicity.

Ten largest foreign citizenships among residents of Finland, 1 January 2025
Rank	Citizenship	People	Share of residents
1	Estonia	50,444	0.90%^*
2	Ukraine	41,403	0.73%^*
3	Russia	35,172	0.62%^*
4	China	15,687	0.28%^*
5	Philippines	15,122	0.27%^*
6	India	15,115	0.27%^*
7	Iraq	13,993	0.25%^*
8	Viet Nam	10,076	0.18%^*
9	Afghanistan	9,237	0.16%^*
10	Bangladesh	8,668	0.15%^*

Country of birth

Residents of Finland by where they were born, on 1 January 2025. This is a different question from citizenship: someone born abroad may hold Finland's citizenship, and someone born in Finland may not.

Residents of Finland by country of birth, 1 January 2025
Country of birth	People	Share of residents
All residents	5,635,971	—
Born in Finland	5,052,816	89.7%^*
Born in another country	566,053	10.0%^*
Born in another EU country	135,155	2.4%^*
Born outside the EU	430,898	7.6%^*
Country of birth not stated	17,102	0.3%^*

Arrivals and departures

People who moved to or left Finland during each calendar year, as reported to Eurostat. Arrivals and departures are separate published figures; the difference is the site's subtraction of the two for the same year.

Arrivals, departures and their difference, Finland, 2024 and earlier years
Year	Arrived	Left	Arrived minus left
2024	63,965	16,914	47,051^*
2023	73,236	15,322	57,914^*
2022	49,998	15,635	34,363^*
2021	36,364	13,459	22,905^*
2020	32,898	15,084	17,814^*
2019	32,758	17,263	15,495^*

By citizenship, 2024

Arrivals and departures by the citizenship of the person moving. Each line is a separate published figure; none is added to another.

Arrivals and departures by citizenship, Finland, 2024
Citizenship	Arrived	Left
Citizens of Finland	6,750	9,013
Citizens of other EU countries	5,663	3,847
Citizens of countries outside the EU	51,492	4,032
Stateless people	0	0
Citizenship not stated	60	22

How to read these figures

Citizenship is the legal bond between a person and a state. Country of birth is where a person was born. They are different facts and different tables, and neither records ethnicity, origin or descent.
Residents counted at 1 January are a stock; arrivals and departures are events during a calendar year. A flow is never a change in a stock, and the two are not divided by each other here.
Eurostat takes each country’s own statistics. Countries differ in who counts as an arrival or a resident, so comparisons between countries are approximate.

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Modification notice and disclaimer

The counts on this page are published by Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union) and are reproduced unchanged. Humanity Observatory has additionally derived the following from them:

A share of residents, computed by dividing one published count by another from the same table, country and date (for example foreign citizens by all residents).
A country's rank among the EU states for its foreign-citizen share, computed by sorting the published figures of the states that publish both counts for the year.
The difference between published immigration and published emigration for the same country and year (arrivals minus departures). It is a subtraction of two published figures, not a net-migration figure published by Eurostat.
The ten largest individual citizenships, selected by sorting the published figures for the latest year in which most countries are published.

Source: Eurostat. Reuse terms.

^* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

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