1. MigrationFinland

   Finland: more deaths than births, yet the population grows — because people arrive

   Births minus deathsArrivals minus departures

   In 2023 deaths exceeded births by 16.4k (as every year since 2016), but 38.2k more people arrived than left, so the population grew by 21.8k (UN estimates). People born abroad: 9.2% of residents (2024).

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Finland: births up for the second year in a row
• Finland: the poorest go without a doctor almost twice as often as in the 2010s
• Finland: women outlive men but have 2.2 fewer healthy years
• Finland: 30% read no books, while 23% read ten or more a year
• Israel: 15-year-olds with problems from social media rose from 5% to 16%, and maths did not fall; in Norway there are fewer, and maths fell 33 points
• Finland and Vietnam: almost equal fertility in 2010 (1.86 and 1.91 children per woman); by 2022, 1.32 and 1.93

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