Migration

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Record immigration and migration gain in 2008 20 May 2009 According to Statistics Finland, 29,100 persons immigrated to Finland from foreign countries during 2008. The number is 3,100 higher than in the previous year and the highest during Finnish independence. Emigration from Finland increased slightly and was 13,650 persons. During 2008, net immigration totalled 15,450 persons, which is the highest number in the post-war period. In the last quarter of 2008, net immigration totalled 400 persons more than in the same quarter of the year before. Next release: 22 Apr 2010
Description:	The statistics on migration describe the moving of individual persons. The statistics differentiate moves across the Finnish territorial boundaries, that is, immigration and emigration, and internal moves within the country, which are further classified into moves between and within municipalities. In migration statistics, data are compiled by the age, gender, marital status, native language, country of birth, and region of arrival and departure of migrants. A person may appear in one year’s statistics several times because the statistical unit is move. Read full description >>>

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Statistics Finland

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Latest release:
Record immigration and migration gain in 2008
20 May 2009
According to Statistics Finland, 29,100 persons immigrated to Finland from foreign countries during 2008. The number is 3,100 higher than in the previous year and the highest during Finnish independence. Emigration from Finland increased slightly and was 13,650 persons. During 2008, net immigration totalled 15,450 persons, which is the highest number in the post-war period. In the last quarter of 2008, net immigration totalled 400 persons more than in the same quarter of the year before.

Next release:
22 Apr 2010

Description:

The statistics on migration describe the moving of individual persons. The statistics differentiate moves across the Finnish territorial boundaries, that is, immigration and emigration, and internal moves within the country, which are further classified into moves between and within municipalities. In migration statistics, data are compiled by the age, gender, marital status, native language, country of birth, and region of arrival and departure of migrants. A person may appear in one year’s statistics several times because the statistical unit is move.
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