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Statistics on living conditions 2025

Altogether 12.7 per cent of the population aged 16 or over experienced severe activity limitations in 2025

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According to Statistics Finland, 12.7 per cent of all persons aged 16 or over belonging to the household population were persons with disabilities in 2025. There were around 591,000 persons with disabilities. The share of persons with disabilities, that is, people who had experienced severe activity limitations, was roughly the same as in the previous survey in 2022. The limitations experienced by elderly people decreased, while those experienced by people under the age of 50 became more common.

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  • Activity limitations became slightly more common among people under the age of 50 and decreased among elderly people in 2025 compared with 2022.
  • Among younger people, severe activity limitations are particularly related to remembering or concentrating, while among the elderly they are mainly related to walking or climbing steps.
  • Young people with activity limitations assess their health as being good more often than elderly people. However, the risk of poverty or social exclusion experienced by young people with activity limitations has increased clearly.
  • 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 activities or cannot do the activity at all, that is, the person experiences severe limitations, the person is considered to have disability.

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  • Age
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  • Age
  • Disability status
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  • Disability status
  • Age
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13ya
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Referencing instructions

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Statistics on living conditions [online publication].
Reference period: 2025. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 13.5.2026].
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Contact information

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Kaisa-Mari Okkonen
Senior Statistician
029 551 3408

Head of Department in charge

Harri Lehtinen
Head of Department in charge
029 551 3403