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Education and researchEarly childhood education and care
Statistics on early childhood education and care includes data on children participating in early childhood education and care and on operators and place of activities of early childhood education and care. Data are obtained from the Finnish National Agency for Education’s Varda database and Åland’s data from Statistics and Research Åland (ÅSUB). The data are published once a year.
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Children having participated in early childhood education and care by mode of organising early childhood education and care in 1985 to 2024
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Share of children having participated in early childhood education and care by age in 2024
Children having participated in early childhood education and care by origin in Mainland Finland in 2024
Foreign-language children participating in early childhood education and care by native language in Mainland Finland in 2023, largest language groups
Share of children having participated in early childhood education and care in the population of the same age in 2015 to 2024
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Eighty per cent of children participated in early childhood education and care in 2024
Early childhood education and care 2024
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Altogether 235,300 children participated in early childhood education and care in 2023
Early childhood education and care 2023
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Share of children having participated in early childhood education and care grew in 2022
Early childhood education and care 2022
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Documentation
Description of the production, used methods and quality of the statistics.
Go to documentation of the statisticsReferencing instructions
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Early childhood education and care [online publication].
Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 10.3.2026].
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