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Sweden - of wich Finland was a part - was the first country in the world to found a statistical office to produce official statistics. This happened in 1748, and the office was named Tabellverket, Tabulation office. Before that, households were already enumerated for taxation purposes.
| 1648 | the first population registers, kept by the parish prists |
| 1748 | the Tabulation Office, Tabellverket, was founded |
| 1749 | the first vital statistics in the world were compiled by the Tabulation Office |
| 1865 | the provisional Statistical Office of Finland, Statistiska Byrån, was founded |
| 1879 | the first Statistical Yearbook of Finland was published |
| 1886 | the first course of statistics was held at the University of Helsinki |
| 1917 | Finland became independent |
| 1920 | the Finnish Statistical Society was founded |
| 1920-22 | J. W. Lindeberg published the Central Limit Theorem |
| 1945 | the first chair of statistics was created at the University of Helsinki |
| 1948 | national accounts were calculated for the first time |
| 1955 | Finland joined the UN |
| 1961 | Finland became an associate member of the EFTA (full member 1986) |
| 1969 | the Population Register was founded |
| 1969 | Finland joined the OECD |
| 1975 | the interview organisation of Statistics Finland was founded |
| 1990 | a completely register-based population census was carried out |
| 1995 | Finland joined the European Union |
| 1995 | the Internet service of Statisctics Finland was opened |