1. ForecastsFinland

   Finland: the UN's 2004 projection did not expect births this low even by 2050

   2025: 45.8k. The UN's 2004 projection expected about 57.9k for 2025 and 54.7k for 2050.

   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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