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<title>The share of foreign-language speakers in 2012 population growth was 87 per cent</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's statistics on the population structure, the official total population of Finland at the end of 2012 was 5,426,674, of whom 2,666,622 were men and 2,760,052 women. In the course of 2012, Finlands population grew by 25,407 persons. The number of people whose native language is a foreign language grew by 22,122, which represented 87 per cent of the population growth. The number of people whose native language is Finnish grew by 3,497, those with Swedish as their native language decreased by 242 and the number of people that speak Sami as their native language grew by 30.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Finlands population includes 4.8 per cent of people with foreign origin</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's statistics on the population structure, there were 257,248 persons of foreign origin living in Finland at the end of 2011, which represents 4.8 per cent of Finland's population. There were 219,702 persons that have been born abroad, so-called first generation Finns with foreign origin, and 37,546 persons born in Finland with foreign origin, so-called second generation Finns with foreign origin.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The population of Finland grew most in 20 years</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's statistics on the population structure, the official total population of Finland at the end of 2011 was 5,401,267, of whom 2,652,534 were men and 2,748,733 women. In the course of 2011, Finlands population grew by 25,991 persons, which is the largest figure since 1991. For the fifth successive year migration gain from abroad contributed more to the increase of population than natural growth.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>One 40-year-old woman in five has no children</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's statistics on the population structure, 21 per cent of the 40-year-old women resident in Finland have not given birth to a child. The proportion of women without children has been growing slowly but constantly. In 1990, the share of 40-year-old women without children was 15 per cent.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Over quarter of a million aged 80 and over in Finland</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's statistics on the population structure, there were 255,912 persons aged 80 and over in Finland's population at the end of 2010. The number has grown five-fold over the last 40 years. The clear majority of those aged 80 and over were women, as the number of men was 81,205 and that of women 174,707.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The population development of regions is going into different directions</title>
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<description>In 2009, population increased in 12 regions, having grown in 11 in the previous year. Population decreased in eight regions. In these eight regions population has decreased continuously for at least the past 15 years. As regards the development of population, Finlands regions show two opposite directions, as in eight regions population has respectively increased continuously for at least the past decade.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Number of persons aged under 15 in Finlands population lowest in over 100 years</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finlands statistics on the population structure there were 888,323 persons aged under 15 in Finlands population at the end of 2009. The number is the lowest since 1895. The size of the population under the age of 15 has been decreasing continuously since 1994. At the end of 1977, there were still one million persons aged under 15 in the Finnish population. The size of the population under the age of 15 was at its largest in 1959 when it was 1.35 million.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The population of Finland in 2008</title>
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<description>On 31 December 2008, the official total population of Finland was 5,326,314 of whom 2,611,653 were men and 2,714,661 women. In the course of 2008 Finlands population grew by 25,830 persons and the increase in the population was the largest since 1992. For the second successive year and at the same time for the first time during Finlands independent history migration gain from abroad contributed more to the increase of population than natural growth.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The population of Finland in 2007</title>
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<description>On 31 December 2007 the total population of Finland was 5,300,484 of which 2,596,787 are men and 2,703,697 women. In the course of 2007 Finlands population grew by 23,529 persons and the increase in population was the biggest since 1992. For the first time during Finlands independence Finlands migration gain from abroad contributed more to the increase in population than natural growth.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The population of Finland in 2006</title>
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<description>On 31 December 2006 the total population of Finland was 5,276,955 of which 2,583,742 are men and 2,693,213 women. In the course of 2006, Finland's population grew by 21,375 persons. The increase in population was the largest since 1993. The number of men grew by 11,392 and that of women by 9,983.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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