Births

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Birth rate continued decreasing slowly 12 Apr 2013 According to Statistics Finland's data on population changes, the birth rate decreased for the second year in a row. At the fertility rate prevailing in 2012, a woman would give birth to an average of 1.80 children. Since 1969, the birth rate has been below the threshold on population's renewal, which is approximately 2.1 children per woman. Next release: Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2013.
Description:	The statistics on births contain all the children whose mother was permanently resident in Finland at the time of their birth. The statistics contain data on the child, mother and the mother’s spouse. Read full description >>>
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Births [e-publication].
ISSN=1798-2413. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 9.5.2013].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/synt/index_en.html.

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