Health and social protection

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Health care expenditure

Current expenditure, public and private financing

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1) Excl. occupational, student and oral health care. Incl. home nursing until 2014
2) Excl. long-term care in primary health care and specialised health care. Incl. home care from 2015

Primary health care and specialised health care

  2000 2010 2019 2020 2021 2022
Thousand
Health centres
 Outpatient visits 1) 25 131 27 191 I   23 804 20 935 31 028 24 617
  General practitioner visits 10 350 7 129 I    5 949 4 664 4 803 4 794
 Others 14 780 18 796 I   17 855 16 271 26 225 19 823
Specialised health care
Outpatient visits 2) 5 693 7 858 10 279 9 190 8 982 8 120
Day-surgery stays 219 287 458 445 466 402
Inpatient stays 962 816 731 662 664 611

1) Excl. dental care, occupational health care, home care and home service
2) Incl. visits to public specialised health care, excl. remote services

l     line across a time series shows substantial breaks in the homogeneity of a series

Social protection expenditure by function

Function 2010 2020 2022
€ million % € million % € million %
Sickness and health 13 468 24,6 16 761 22,1 18 677 23,3
Disability 6 427 11,7 6 902 9,1 7 048 8,8
Old age 19 171 35,0 30 048 42,2 34 130 42,6
Survivors 1 724 3,1 1 858 2,4 1 933 2,4
Family and children 5 845 10,7 7 322 9,6 7 998 10,0
Unemployment 4 370 8,0 5 308 7,0 4 100 5,1
Housing 923 1,7 2 203 2,9 2 541 3,2
Other social protection 1 425 2,6 2 282 3,0 2 343 2,9
Administration 1 480 2,7 1 206 1,6 1 275 1,6
Total 54 832 100 75 891 100 80 048 100
Ratio to GDP, % 29,3   31,9   29,8  

Recipients of family allowances

  2000 2010 2020 2023
Parental allowances
 Mothers 97 359 103 577 79 666 75 335
 Fathers 42 924 56 393 58 170 61 960
Recipients of maternity grant
incl. adoption grant
55 228 60 188 49 177 42 045
Child benefit, December
 Recipients 586 834 561 534 538 210 534 452
 Children 1 063 680 1 014 910 977 024 951 525
Child care allowances 31.12.
 Recipients 84 657 89 701 66 968 55 673
 Children 126 963 126 995 80 811 62 917
Child maintenance allowance 31.12.
 Recipients . . 66 384 69 954 63 433
 Children 107 962 97 776 101 814 91 272

Recipients of unemployment benefits
on 31 December 2023

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Pension recipients

The same individual may be the beneficiary of more than one type of
pension

Pension benefit 2000 2010 2020 2023
Old-age pension 869 672 1 093 267 1 397 155 1 442 871
Disability pension 276 269 267 248 193 629 179 731
Unemployment pension 54 291 33 938 - -
Part-time pension 24 533 28 764 291 . .
Special pensions for farmers 40 845 24 330 8 409 4 925
Surviving spouse's pension 252 798 263 176 220 395 212 747
Orphan's pension 28 476 22 503 15 994 17 089
Total 1 284 145 1 463 835 1 617 561 1 649 628

Total pension distribution among pension recipients on 31 December 2023

People living in Finland who receive an old-age (excl. partial old-age),
disability or special farmer’s pension

Total pension, €/month Total % Males % Females %
0–799 33 405 2,2 11 186 1,6 22 219 2,7
800–1 099 215 176 14,2 89 169 13,0 126 007 15,3
1 100–1 399 246 540 16,3 87 530 12,8 159 010 19,2
1 400–1 699 235 214 15,6 85 437 12,5 149 777 18,1
1 700–1 999 202 179 13,4 84 051 12,3 118 128 14,3
2 000–2 299 167 725 11,1 78 232 11,4 89 493 10,8
2 300–2 599 120 590 8,0 63 772 9,3 56 818 6,9
2 600–2 899 83 366 5,5 47 066 6,9 36 300 4,4
2 900–3 199 57 061 3,8 34 295 5,0 22 766 2,8
3 200–3 499 39 516 2,6 25 235 3,7 14 281 1,7
3 500– 110 341 7,3 78 895 11,5 31 446 3,8
Total 1 511 113 100 684 868 100 826 245 100
Average pension, €/month 1 977   2 216   1 779  

Housing benefits

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Last updated 24 Apr 2024