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  • Population......................................................................5,255,068 (July 2010 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................0.084% (2010 est.)
  • Birth rate.....................................................10.37 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
  • Death rate................................................10.15 deaths/1,000 population (2010 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................0.62 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.......Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.6%, Russian 0.5%, Estonian 0.3%, Roma (Gypsy) 0.1%, Sami 0.1% (2006)
Member of what is now the European Union since 1995.
Country Profile
Finland's Balancing Act: The Labor Market, Humanitarian Relief, and Immigrant Integration
Arno Tanner of the Finnish Immigration Service and the Universities of Helsinki and Tampere discusses the historical and current state of migration to and from Finland, and the country's immigration policy priorities going forward.

Finland page on the World Migration Map
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Other Resources

Statistics Finland
http://www.stat.fi/index_en.html

Finnish Immigration Service
http://www.migri.fi

Ministry of Labor
http://www.mol.fi/mol/en/04_migration

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb
Data
Check out Finnnish International Migration Data
in the Global Data Center
Neighboring Countries

Russia
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Estonia
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