Population
The population of Finland passed the five million mark in 1991. Finland's population figures increase very slowly. The contribution of natural population growth to the increase is falling and net migration is replacing it as the factor with the strongest effect on population growth. Finland, formerly a source of emigrants, is now becoming a destination for immigrants.
Population 5.3 million
- 17 inhabitants per square kilometre
- 67% live in towns or urban areas, 33% in rural areas
- principal cities: Helsinki (560,000), Espoo (221,000), Tampere (199,000), Vantaa (182,000), Turku (174,000) and Oulu (124,000)
- about one million people live in the Helsinki metropolitan area
- Finland has a Sami (Lapp) population of 6,500
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