Migration trends in Finland
Europe
434.5K people from around the world have made Finland their home. That's 7.7% of the country population, arriving from 190 different countries
5.6M
Population
434.5K
Immigrants
181.8K
Emigrants
+252.7K
Inflow
1 in every 13 people in Finland was born abroad
The #84 largest immigrant destination worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Finland
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
59.4K immigrants · 266.7K emigrants
2005
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 71%
- Migration accounted for 81% of the country's population growth
- The foreign-born population passed 100K residents
2010
- The gap between arrivals and departures was cut in half
2015
- Estonia overtook Sweden as the largest source of new arrivals
- The country became a destination — more people arriving than leaving
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 46%
- Migration accounted for 69% of the country's population growth
Today
- Ukraine overtook Estonia as the largest source of new arrivals
- Without migration, the population would have declined
- Net migration doubled — the annual surplus reached 252.7K
- A significant migration corridor emerged from Ukraine — 63.4K new residents
- Since 1990: 375.1K more foreign-born residents and 84.9K fewer citizens living abroad