World population/Finland
Europe
Population of Finland
5,621,731
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#122
world rank
0.07%
of world population
-0.10%
yearly change
-5,732
people this year
43,863
births a year
61,225
deaths a year
How the figure for Finland is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Finland at 5,621,731 on 1 July 2026, and projects 5,615,999 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Finland at number 122 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.07 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 43,863 births and 61,225 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.