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As of 2023, Statistics Finland publishes data on the foreign population using three distinct methodologies. The Finnish population includes persons of foreign origin and background, who make up 10.2% of the total population. [note 1] In additional calculations, the proportion of persons born outside Finland is 9.6%. Individuals who have a first ...
The legal provisions of Finland's Aliens' Act are discriminatory and subject ethnic minorities to racial profiling by the police. [9] According to ECRI, the majority of people in Finland don't know enough about the Sámi people (an Indigenous ethnic minority in Finland) and are not taught enough about Sámi people and culture in school. [9]
In 2023 there were 52,593 Estonian-background residents in Finland. And Estonian was native language for 0.9% of Finland's total population. [3] [4] The number of Estonians grew rapidly after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Estonian's EU membership. The main reasons were higher salaries and better job opportunities in Finland.
The African diaspora in Finland (Finnish: afrikkalaisten diaspora Suomessa) refers to the residents of Finland of full or partial African ancestry, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa. According to Statistics Finland, the total number of people in Finland with a close African background [a] (Africans in Finland; Suomen afrikkalaiset) was 57,496 in ...
In Sweden, the Tornedalians were also once seen as an inferior race and speaking Finnish was banned in school. Both Finnish and Meänkieli (spoken in Meänmaa ) became official minority languages of Sweden in 2000, and the Swedish state started an investigation into the historical treatment of Finns and Tornedalians in 2020.
The following article lists sovereign states, dependent territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries.
In the Fearon list, ethnic fractionalization is approximated by a measure of similarity between languages, varying from 1 = the population speaks two or more unrelated languages to 0 = the entire population speaks the same language. [3]
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Finland" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.