Three-quarters of those aged 15 or over have completed post-comprehensive level qualifications in 2022
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release | Educational structure of population 2022According to Statistics Finland, 3,530,300 persons had completed a post-comprehensive level qualification in 2022. Seventy-five per cent of the population aged 15 or over had completed a post-comprehensive level qualification. Seventy-six per cent of women and 73 per cent of men had completed a post-comprehensive level qualification.
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- The highest educated age group was those aged 45 to 49, of whom 88 per cent had completed a post-comprehensive level qualification and 48 per cent a tertiary level qualification.
- In the 45 to 49 age group, 58 per cent of women and 38 per cent of men had completed tertiary level qualifications, which means that the difference between the genders was 20 percentage points.
- The share of those with tertiary level qualifications grew only among those aged 45 or over.
- The region with the highest educated population was Uusimaa, where 37 per cent of the population had completed a tertiary level qualification.
- Nineteen per cent of those aged 20 to 24 had no post-comprehensive level qualification, 22 per cent of men and 16 per cent of women.
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Educational structure of population [online publication].
Reference period: 2022. ISSN=2242-2919. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 30.3.2025].
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