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Finland: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Finland Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Finland

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

17.20 Percent of people

European ranking

22 / 30

Compared with Europe

-2.8 puntos

Finland is 2.8 points below the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 0.97 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 17.20 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

    +4.10

    17.90

  2. 2

    Etelä-Suomi

    —

    17.20

  3. 3

    Helsinki-Uusimaa

    -9.90

    15.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Finland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Finland

In Finland, Poverty or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 17.2% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 3.2 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Finland, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 14.90% in 2020 to 17.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 16.80% in 2024 to 17.20% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Finland

In Finland, regional values for Poverty or exclusion are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi records the highest value (17.9%) and Helsinki-Uusimaa the lowest (15.5%), a gap of 2.4 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Finland, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.