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Published: 31 January 2020

Number of children decreasing most in South Savo

According to the 2018 family statistics, a total of 1,037,995 children were growing up in families, which was 8,341 fewer than in 2017. There are now 33,805, or three per cent, fewer underage children being raised in families than ten years ago. The biggest change in the number of underage children has occurred in South Savo where the number of children has decreased by 20 per cent. In Kainuu, the number of underage children has declined by 18 per cent. In absolute numbers, there were most underage children in Uusimaa, 323,103, and the number has grown by five per cent from ten years ago. The change in the number of underage children has also been positive in Pirkanmaa and Åland.

There was a total of 151,291 children aged under three at the end of 2018, which was 15 per cent down from 2008. The decrease in the number of children aged under three was relatively largest in Kanta-Häme, Kainuu and South Savo. In addition, the number of children aged under three also contracted by at least 20 per cent in Kymenlaakso, South Karelia, Central Finland, North Ostrobothnia, Lapland and Satakunta. By contrast, the drop was smallest in Uusimaa, six per cent. The number or children aged under three only remained almost unchanged in Åland where the share increased by one per cent.

In relative terms, most children aged under three were found in Uusimaa and Åland where 16 per cent of underage children in families were aged under three. The share of children aged under three was smallest in Kanta-Häme, Kymenlaakso, South Savo, South Karelia and Kainuu, 13 per cent. In ten years, the share of children aged under three among all underage children has declined in all regions. The biggest change has occurred in North Ostrobothnia where the relative share of children aged under three has declined by four percentage points.

The number of underage children is affected by the birth rate, migration and the age structure of the population.

Change in the number of children aged under 18 in families with children by region from 2008 to 2018

Change in the number of children aged under 3 in families with underage children by region from 2008 to 2018

Source: Population and Justice Statistics, Statistics Finland

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Reviews

• 1. Altogether 73 per cent of the Finnish population belongs to a family (31.1.2020)
• 2. Eighty-five per cent of families completely Finnish-speaking (31.1.2020)
• 3. Thirty-eight per cent of families are families with children (31.1.2020)
• 4. Regional differences in prevalence of types of families with underage children (31.1.2020)
• 5. Eighty per cent of children live in families with two parents (31.1.2020)
• 6. Share of young people with the status of a child contracted slightly (31.1.2020)
• 7. Men living alone has become more common in almost all age groups (31.1.2020)

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• Appendix table 1. Family population and average size of family in 1950 to 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 2. Swedish-speaking families by type and number of children of spouses/parents December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 3. Married couples by order of marriage of man and woman on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 4. Families by language of spouses/parents on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 5. Families with underage children by language of parents on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 6. Families by citizenship of spouses/parents on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 7. Families with underage children by citizenship of parents on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 8. Families by country of birth of spouses/parents on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 9. Families with underage children by country of birth of parents on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 10. Families by type of family and number of children aged 17 or under living at home on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 11. Families with underage children by number of children aged 17 or under and family type on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 12. Reconstituted families by family composition and number of children on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 13. Families by age group of children and type of family on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 14. Children aged 0 - 24 by type of family on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 15. Children by age and number of children in the family living at home aged 17 or under on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 16. Men with a family by age and type of family on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)
• Appendix table 17. Women with a family by age and type of family on December 31, 2018 (31.1.2020)

Quality descriptions

• Quality description, families 2018 (31.1.2020)

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