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According to Statistics Finland, in 2012, 77.9% of Somalia-born immigrants in Finland had attained a lower secondary or unknown education level, 17.9% had attained an upper secondary education level, and 4.2% had attained a tertiary education level. [8] A Somali man and Finnish friends at a celebration in Helsinki.
In 2009, there were 5,570 Somali citizens, but an equal number may have received Finnish citizenship. In 2014 there were 16,721 Somali speakers in Finland. [citation needed] According to the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the number of Somali-speaking people in Finland in 2010 rose by nearly 10% in a year. [43]
As of 31 December 2020, according to Statistics Finland, the total number of people in Finland with a close African background [a] is 57,496, which is 1.0% of the population of Finland. [ b ] 47,041 (81.8%) of them are from Sub-Saharan Africa .
The first Somalis arrived to Finland via the Soviet Union. Somali speaking population in Finland has grown from zero to 21,000 between 1990 and 2018. 55% of Somalis in Finland are unemployed, the highest of any ethnic group in Finland. In 2014, Finland took 1,030 quota refugees, and an additional 3,651 people sought asylum.
The reliable population data is available from 1749, when Sweden first compiled population statistics. At that time, the population of Finland stood at 410,400 individuals. The threshold of one million inhabitants was surpassed subsequent to the Finnish War (1808–1809) in 1811, upon the annexation of the Old Finland region. The milestone of ...
The inaccurate posts claim the new flag closely resembled that of Puntland state, a region of northeastern Somalia that was declared autonomous in 1998. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali ...
This is a list of districts in Somalia by population. As of March 2017 [update] , the country has an estimated population of 15,626,039 inhabitants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the Central Intelligence Agency , the total population count in Somalia is complicated by internal movements of nomads and individuals displaced during the civil war . [ 3 ]
The largest minority group in Finland is the Swedish-speaking Finns, who in 2018 numbered about 282,300, with all Swedish speakers in the country making a total of 288,400 which is 5.2% of the total population. [1] Municipalities are classified as either monolingual or bilingual with a majority language.