Finland

Interesting Facts About Finland

• Finland has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world at 1.26 children born per woman, well below the replacement rate of 2.1
• Finland's child mortality rate is 2.1 deaths per every 1,000 births, one of the lowest in the world, attributed to a strong medical system and maternity care initiatives
• Finland has the third lowest population density in Europe at 19 inhabitants per square kilometre, after only Norway and Iceland
• Finnish is one of only four official EU languages not of Indo-European origin and is more closely related to Estonian and Hungarian than to other Nordic languages
• Finland's land is predominantly covered by boreal forest, with over 180,000 recorded lakes
• Three of Finland's four largest cities are located in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa

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