Open data and interfaces

Statistics Finland provides open statistical data for decision-making and research. Open statistical data are available on various topics for the entire country, by municipality, postal code area and map grid.

Statistics Finland uses the open data licence – CC BY 4.0 licence. Data can be used freely in every possible way provided that the source is mentioned.

Terms of use

Open database data

You can search for statistical data from free-of-charge databases in the PX-Web API interface in the following formats: XLSX, XML, JSON, JSON-stat, CSV, etc.

Open geographic data

You can view or download Statistics Finland's open geographic data from the WMS and WFS interfaces. Statistics Finland also offers data compliant with the INSPIRE Directive both on the WMS interface and on the OGC API - Features interface. 

Classifications

Through open classifications API you can find statistical classifications published by Statistics Finland with their metadata and correspondence tables.

Open data tools

The Github environment contains open source data tools for transferring tables from Statistics Finland's databases and for computerised reading and processing of tables.

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