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Statistics on living conditions 2022

Altogether 12.9 per cent of the household population aged 16 or over experienced severe activity limitations in 2022

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According to Statistics Finland, 12.9 per cent of all persons aged 16 or over belonging to the household population experienced severe activity limitations in 2022. There were around 580,000 persons with severe activity limitations. Activity limitations were most common among the elderly. Nearly 55 per cent of those aged over 84 experienced severe activity limitations.

Change

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Key selections

  • Activity limitations were most common among the elderly. Elderly people most often experienced difficulties with walking or climbing stairs.
  • Among young people, the most common activity limitation was related to remembering or concentrating.
  • Activity limitations are measured with an indicator consisting of six basic activities: seeing, hearing, walking and climbing steps, remembering and concentrating, self-care and communicating in one's own native language.
  • When a person experiences a lot of difficulties in any of the six basic functions or cannot function at all in at least one of them, the person is considered to have disability.
  • The definition of persons with disabilities complies with the recommendation of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics operating under the United Nations Statistical Commission.

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Updated database tables
11y4
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  • Income group
  • Health care expenditure
  • Burden of costs
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11yu
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  • Household's life-cycle
  • Health care expenditure
  • Burden of costs
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New database tables
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  • Age
  • Degree of limitation
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13xi
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  • Sex
  • Age
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13xu
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  • Age
  • Income group
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13y2
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  • Disability status
  • Age
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13ya
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Disability status
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13xv
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  • Age
  • Disability status
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Referencing instructions

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Statistics on living conditions [online publication].
Reference period: 2022. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 29.4.2026].
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Population and societyWork, wages and livelihoodHealth and social protection

Contact information

Service email
toimeentulo.tilastokeskus@stat.fi

Inquiries primarily

Kaisa-Mari Okkonen
Senior Statistician
029 551 3408

Head of Department in charge

Hannele Orjala
Head of Department in charge
029 551 3582