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Published: 3 December 2010

Differences between municipalities in educational level of population were still considerable in 2009

By the end of 2009, a total of 2,955,000 persons in Finland had attained post-comprehensive level educational qualifications in upper secondary general school education, vocational education, polytechnic education or university education. Sixty-six per cent of the population aged 15 or over had attained an educational qualification. The share of population with educational qualifications increased by two per cent from the year before. The share of population aged over 15 with educational qualifications was highest in Kauniainen at 79 per cent and lowest in Rautavaara at 47 per cent. The data in these statistics comply with the municipal division valid on 1 January 2010.

Population aged 15 or over by level of education and gender 2009

Level	Gender
	Total		Men		Women
		%		%		%
Total	4 463 104	100,0	2 171 247	100,0	2 291 857	100,0
Basic education or less (ISCED 2 or less)	1 508 061	33,8	743 013	34,2	765 048	33,4
Population with educational qualifications	2 955 043	66,2	1 428 234	65,8	1 526 809	66,6
Upper secondary /Post-secondary non tertiary education (ISCED 3/4)	1 736 173	38,9	899 842	41,4	836 331	36,5
Tertiary level (ISCED 5/6)	1 218 870	27,3	528 392	24,3	690 478	30,1
ISCED 5 B programmes	477 211	10,7	185 730	8,6	291 481	12,7
ISCED 5 A Medium programmes (Bachelor level)	376 678	8,4	169 606	7,8	207 072	9,0
ISCED 5 A Long/very long programmes (Master level)	330 097	7,4	152 116	7,0	177 981	7,8
Second stage of tertiary Education (ISCED 6)	34 884	0,8	20 940	1,0	13 944	0,6
Licentiate's degree	9 579	0,2	5 689	0,3	3 890	0,2
Doctor's degree	25 305	0,6	15 251	0,7	10 054	0,4

Persons having only completed the basic level of education, i.e. comprehensive school, middle school or elementary school, numbered 1,508 000. Upper secondary level qualifications were held by 39 per cent and tertiary level qualifications by 27 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 24 per cent of men and 30 per cent of women.

Source: Education 2010. Statistics Finland

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Updated 3.12.2010