Health and social protection

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Health care expenditure

Current expenditure, public and private financing

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1) Excl. occupational, student and oral health care. Incl. home nursing until 2014
2) Excl. long-term care in primary health care and specialised health care. Incl. home care from 2015

Primary health care and specialised health care

  2000 2010 2020 2021 2022 2023
Thousand
Health centres
 Outpatient visits 1) 25 131 27 191 I   20 557 30 706 23 962 20 378
  General practitioner visits 10 350 7 129 I    4 664 4 803 4 629 4 515
 Other practitioner visits 14 780 18 796 I   15 893 25 903 19 333 15 863
Specialised health care
Outpatient visits 2) 5 693 7 858 9 190 8 982 8 285 8 510
Inpatient stays 962 816 695 698 636 626

1) Excl. dental care, occupational health care, home care and home service
2) Visits to public specialised health care, excl. remote services

l     line across a time series shows substantial breaks in the homogeneity of a series

Social protection expenditure by function

Function 2010 2020 2023
€ million % € million % € million %
Sickness and health 13 468 24,6 16 761 22,1 19 665 22,7
Disability 6 427 11,7 6 902 9,1 7 519 8,7
Old age 19 171 35,0 30 048 42,2 37 554 43,3
Survivors 1 724 3,1 1 858 2,4 2 070 2,4
Family and children 5 845 10,7 7 322 9,6 8 683 10,0
Unemployment 4 370 8,0 5 308 7,0 4 366 5,0
Housing 923 1,7 2 203 2,9 2 681 3,1
Other social protection 1 425 2,6 2 282 3,0 2 817 3,2
Administration 1 480 2,7 1 206 1,6 1 330 1,5
Total 54 832 100 75 891 100 86 686 100
Ratio to GDP, % 29,1   32,1   31,7  

Recipients of family allowances

  2000 2010 2020 2024
Parental allowances
 Mothers 97 359 103 577 79 666 77 882
 Fathers 42 924 56 393 58 170 65 092
Recipients of maternity grant
incl. adoption grant
55 228 60 188 49 177 42 876
Child benefit, December
 Recipients 586 834 561 534 538 210 532 436
 Children 1 063 680 1 014 910 977 024 941 145
Child care allowances 31.12.
 Recipients 84 657 89 701 66 968 50 406
 Children 126 963 126 995 80 811 56 473
Child maintenance allowance 31.12.
 Recipients . . 66 384 69 954 61 954
 Children 107 962 97 776 101 814 88 530

Recipients of unemployment benefits
on 31 December 2023

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Pension recipients

The same individual may be the beneficiary of more than one type of
pension

Pension benefit 2000 2010 2020 2024
Old-age pension 869 672 1 093 267 1 397 155 1 456 307
Disability pension 276 269 267 248 193 629 177 331
Unemployment pension 54 291 33 938 - -
Part-time pension 24 533 28 764 291 -
Special pensions for farmers 40 845 24 330 8 409 4 008
Surviving spouse's pension 252 798 263 176 220 395 210 722
Orphan's pension 28 476 22 503 15 994 16 995
Total 1 284 145 1 463 835 1 617 561 1 660 923

Total pension distribution among pension recipients on 31 December 2024

People living in Finland who receive an old-age (excl. partial old-age),
disability or special farmer’s pension

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In 2024, the average total pension was 2,100 euro per month, for men 2,349 euro per month, for women 1,893 euro per month.

Housing benefits

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Last updated 10 Apr 2025