Death certificates are stored in different locations depending on when the deceased died.
If you need the death certificate of a person who died after 1965, you can request it from our death certificate archives. Please note that the latest death certificates come to our archives at a delay of several months.
If your close relative died less than a year ago, you should primarily contact the health care establishment that issued the death certificate.
You can request the death certificate of a close relative deceased in 1966 or after that from us. Individual copies of death certificates are free of charge for close relatives.
If necessary, we provide a signed and stamped copy of the death certificate for handling matters abroad. You can find information about having the death certificate translated and the apostille certificate on this page under “Death certificate abroad”.
Request the death certificate on the electronic form (lupa.stat.fi).
If the language of the form is incorrect, select EN from the links at the top to access the form in English.
Use the Suomi.fi identifier at the end of the list to log in to the form. If you have used the service before, identification may be bypassed automatically. Please note that you cannot log in to the form on behalf of another person.
After the identification, you will be directed straight to the correct form.
The information requested on the form:
If necessary, you can also submit the request to Statistics Finland by email or post.
Submit the request to Statistics Finland by email: kuolemansyyt@stat.fi.
If you wish, you can send the request via secured email at https://turvaviesti.tilastokeskus.fi. Please select kuolemansyyt@stat.fi as the recipient of the secured email.
Submit the request to Statistics Finland by post. Postal address:
Statistics Finland
Cause of death statistics
FI-00022 Statistics Finland
Finland
If you request a death certificate in the name of an insurance company or an authority entitled to receive information, send the request by secure email to kuolemansyyt@stat.fi. Use either your organisation's own secure email or Statistics Finland's secure email.
A copy of the death certificate can be obtained only in the language in which the physician has written the original death certificate. The person concerned must see to the possible translation of the death certificate.
Yes. The apostille certificate is requested from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. For this purpose, the death certificate must contain official entries with a signature and stamp.
Request a copy from the supplier of the death certificate, including handwritten signatures and an appropriate stamp. The signature must be original, handwritten and done with a pen.