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Releases

2020

• Decrease in birth rate stopped in 2020 (23.4.2021)

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• Turn in the birth rate was especially visible among persons aged over 30 and highly educated (3.12.2021)

2019

• Decrease in birth rate slowed down in 2019 (24.4.2020)

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• Birth rate higher in rural areas, more births in urban areas (4.12.2020)

2018

• Steep decline in the birth rate continued (26.4.2019)

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• Share of persons with Finnish background in the birth rate has decreased (4.12.2019)

2017

• Total fertility rate at an all-time low (27.4.2018)

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• Birth rate has decreased in all educational groups (4.12.2018)

2016

• Fall in the number of births even steeper (11.4.2017)

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• Average age at first confinement rose in Finland to the top level of Nordic countries (4.12.2017)

2015

• Fall in the number of births accelerated (14.4.2016)

Annual Review

• Having children is most common in the 30 to 34 age group (8.12.2016)

2014

• Number of births continued declining (14.4.2015)

2013

• Number of births fell further (8.4.2014)

2012

• Birth rate continued decreasing slowly (12.4.2013)

2011

• Birth rate fell slightly (13.4.2012)

2010

• Birth rate continues to rise (15.4.2011)

2009

• Birth rate highest in 40 years (15.4.2010)

2008

• Number of births increased (22.4.2009)

2007

• Number of births almost unchanged (2.5.2008)

2006

• Number of births increased (20.4.2007)