Persons with educational qualifications numbered 2,806,000 in 2006

Correction to the release made on 5 Dec. 2007. Figures on doctor's and licentiate's degrees corrected in the table on 16 Jan. 2008.

At the end of 2006, a total of 2,806,000 persons, or 64 per cent of the population aged 15 or over, in Finland held post-comprehensive level educational qualifications from upper secondary general schools, vocational education institutes, polytechnics or universities. The share of population with such qualifications increased by two per cent from the year before. Persons having only completed the basic level of education, i.e. comprehensive school, middle school or elementary school, numbered 1,570,000.

Upper secondary level qualifications were held by 38 per cent and tertiary level qualifications by 26 per cent of the population aged 15 or over. Forty-one per cent of the holders of upper secondary level qualifications were men and 36 per cent women, whereas tertiary degrees were held by 23 per cent of men and 28 per cent of women.

Population aged 15 or over by level of education and gender, 2006

Level of education	Population aged 15 or over		Men aged 15 or over		Woman aged 15 or over
		%		%		%

Total	4,375,774	100,0	2,123,787	100,0	2,251,987	100,0

Basic education or less (ISCED 2 or less)	1,569,835	35.9	765,142	36.0	804,693	35.7

Population with educational qualifications	2,805,939	64.1	1,358,645	64.0	1,447,294	64.3

Upper secondary education/Post-secondary non-tertiary education (ISCED 3/4)	1,675,369	38.3	861,262	40.6	814,107	36.2

Tertiary education (ISCED 5/6)	1,130,570	25.8	497,383	23.4	633,187	28.1

First stage of tertiary education (ISCED 5)	1,099,848	25.1	478,135	22.5	621,713	27.6
ISCED 5B programmes	494,540	11.3	192,544	9.1	301,996	13.4
ISCED 5A programmes	605,308	13.8	285,591	13.4	319,717	14.2
5A Medium programmes (Bachelor level)	314,791	7.2	147,927	7.0	166,864	7.4
5A Long/very long programmes (Master level)	290,517	6.6	137,664	6.5	152,853	6.8

Second stage of tertiary education (ISCED 6)	30,722	0.7	19,248	0.9	11,474	0.5
Licentiate's degree	9,442⁽¹	0.2	5,747⁽¹	0.3	3,695	0.2
Doctor's degree	21,280⁽²	0.5	13,501⁽²	0.6	7,779	0.3

¹⁾ Figures corrected on 16 Jan. 2008. Previous figures were: Licentiate's degree, total 9,449; men 5,754
²⁾ Figures corrected on 16 Jan. 2008. Previous figures were: Doctor's degree, total 21,273; men 13,494

Source: Education Statistics. Statistics Finland

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Educational structure of population [e-publication].
ISSN=2242-2919. 2006. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.12.2024].
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