1. FertilityFinland

   Finland: births up for the second year in a row

   After the low of 2023 (43.4k): 43.7k in 2024, 45.8k in 2025, 5.6% more. Children per woman: 1.26 → 1.30. Marriages are up 7%. In 1950 there were 98.4k.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

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   Births per year after they reached their lowest level since 1950. A rise can come from women having more children and from there being more women around the age of 30.

   The line is births per year; the dot is the low.

   • Births thousand births per year

     43 (2023) → 46 (2025)

     Eurostat demo_gind (births) / demo_find (TFR), retrieved 2026-10-01 → Statistics Finland StatFin tables 12dj (births) and 12dt (TFR), updated 1 Jul 2026

   • Total fertility rate children per woman

     1.26 (2023) → 1.30 (2025)

     Eurostat demo_gind (births) / demo_find (TFR), retrieved 2026-10-01 → Statistics Finland StatFin tables 12dj (births) and 12dt (TFR), updated 1 Jul 2026

   • Marriages thousand marriages a year

     21 (2023) → 22 (2025)

     eurostat: Eurostat FI (Finland) → national: Statistics Finland StatFin table 121v 'Vital statistics and population, 1749-2025', item Marriages (updated 2026-05-27, final annual statistics on changes in marital status). Definition (table note): from 1990 marriages where at least one spouse was permanently resident in Finland on the day of marriage (1749-1989: marriages of women resident in Finland); includes same-sex marriages from 2017 (table 121e 2025: opposite-sex 21588, male couples 142, female couples 352); whole country incl. Aland. No crude marriage rate published (table 121u has only rates per 1 000 unmarried by age and sex). Level check: national 2024 = 21420, same as marriages.csv (Eurostat); national 2023 = 20693, same as marriages.csv (Eurostat).

   National statistics where available, otherwise UN estimates. Selection: countries of at least 3 million with data for 2025 where births rose every year after their lowest point since 1950, for at least two years and by 4% or more in total.

   Two or three years of growth are not yet a new trend: such rises happened before, and fertility then fell again.

   A question for this picture

   Is this postponed births coming back or a real turn?

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