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Finland

Finland is an EU member state with a population of 5.6M, a GDP of €281B (2025) and a per-capita output of €49.7k, a median age of 43.5 years. Member of the European Union since 1995.

402 Eurostat indicators across 15 topics, with full year-by-year history.

Population

5.6M

2025 · rank 17/27

GDP (current prices)

€281B

2025 · rank 15/27

GDP per capita

€49.7k

2025 · rank 9/27

Median age

43.5yrs

2025 · rank 15/27

Country at a glance

Finland is a northern europe member of the European Union, with its capital in Helsinki. The country joined the European Communities in 1995 in the EFTA-route enlargement (alongside Austria, Finland and Sweden). Economically, Finland is a Nordic economy with strong forestry, technology (Nokia legacy) and electricity grids; the only Nordic state in the eurozone. The country has used the euro since 1999, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. The official languages are Finnish, Swedish. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Finland is currently 17th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record; 15th by GDP at current prices.

Key insights

How Finland stands out across the EU-27 on flagship indicators — auto-generated from the latest Eurostat snapshot.

  • Unemployment 9.7% — 2nd highest in EU (EU avg 6.0%)
  • Fertility rate 1.3 — well below the 2.1 replacement level
  • 52.1% of energy from renewables — top 2 in EU (EU avg 25.2%)
  • R&D expenditure 3.2% of GDP — above the EU 3% target (EU avg 2.2%)

Finland vs EU-27

Flagship indicators alongside the EU-27 average and Finland's rank across covered member states.

IndicatorFIEU-27 avgΔRankYear
Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components per capita - annual data€49,710€41,620+19%9/272025
Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components (output, expenditure and income) - annual data€280,570M€18,810,682M-99%15/272025
Unemployment by sex and age - annual data9.7%6.0%+62%2/272025
Employment rates by citizenship71.4%66.6%+7%10/272025
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex13.4%16.3%-18%21/272025
Life expectancy by age and sex82.281.5+1%11/272024
Population structure indicators at national level43.544.9-3%15/272025
Fertility indicators1.251.34-7%19/272024
Government deficit/surplus, debt and associated data88.5%81.7%+8%7/272025
Share of energy from renewable sources52.1%25.2%+107%2/272024
Population in private households by educational attainment level42.7%36.9%+16%10/272025
GERD by sector of performance3.2%2.2%+44%4/272024

Indicators by topic

Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Finland, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.

Economy & national accounts

34 indicators

Public finance & taxation

13 indicators

Labour & employment

43 indicators

Demography & population

48 indicators

Income, poverty & living conditions

124 indicators

Migration & asylum

26 indicators

Education

3 indicators

Health

25 indicators

Justice & crime

7 indicators

Environment & climate

13 indicators

Energy

11 indicators

Digital society & ICT

26 indicators

Science, R&D, patents

7 indicators

Transport

3 indicators

Tourism

19 indicators

More data on Finland

This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.

Sources & methodology

Data on this page comes from Eurostat (402 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.

Last refreshed: 2026-05-18 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API