How healthy is Finland?

  • 82years is how long people live, on averageUnited Nations Population Division, 2023
  • 2.4in 1,000 children die before they are fiveUN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, 2024
Health careHow health care works in Finland$5,548 spent on health for each person in 2023 (5,131 euros)Eurostat, health care expenditure by financing scheme and by function (hlth_sha11_hf, hlth_sha11_hc), Finland, 2023, provisional

Health care

Are children vaccinated against measles?

94.5 in 100 children born in 2023 had begun their measles vaccine. Of children born in 2018, 92.1 in 100 had the second dose, under the 95 THL asks for.

First measles dose, born 2023

94.5 in 100 children born in 2023 had begun their measles vaccine

North Savo is highest of all 23 areas, at 97.7 in 100; Åland lowest, at 90.5 in 100. Finland: 94.5 in 100. Children born in 2023 who had begun the measles vaccine, in every 100

Central Finland: 95.3 in 100Central Ostrobothnia: 95.6 in 100Central Uusimaa: 95.2 in 100City of Helsinki: 94.3 in 100East Uusimaa: 93.0 in 100Kainuu: 94.6 in 100Kanta-Häme: 95.2 in 100Kymenlaakso: 94.6 in 100Lapland: 94.8 in 100North Karelia: 96.1 in 100North Ostrobothnia: 92.2 in 100North Savo: 97.7 in 100Ostrobothnia: 93.6 in 100Pirkanmaa: 96.2 in 100Päijät-Häme: 93.2 in 100Satakunta: 94.1 in 100South Karelia: 94.8 in 100South Ostrobothnia: 93.7 in 100South Savo: 93.8 in 100Southwest Finland: 94.9 in 100Vantaa and Kerava: 93.5 in 100West Uusimaa: 94.3 in 100Åland: 90.5 in 100

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The areas are the 21 wellbeing services counties, the City of Helsinki and Åland.

THL says Åland's records since autumn 2024 are probably incomplete; it judges that children born in 2023 were mostly vaccinated before then.

Figures: Tilastoraportti 5/2026, rokotuskattavuus, THL (the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare), 26 March 2026. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), as THL's repository records for this report. Dooram drew the pictures; THL's figures are not changed. Map: Wellbeing services county boundaries, Statistics Finland, downloaded from its interface service on 23 October 2026, CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0); shapes simplified by Dooram.

Source: Tilastoraportti 5/2026, rokotuskattavuus, THL (the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare), 26 March 2026

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Measles vaccination in Finland

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94.5 in 100 children born in 2023 had begun their measles vaccine. Of children born in 2018, 92.1 in 100 had the second dose, under the 95 THL asks for.

Children born in 2023 who had begun the measles vaccine, in every 100

  • North Savo97.7
  • Finland94.5
  • Åland90.5

Cross-checkFinland's own figures: 94.5 began the vaccine (born 2023), 92.1 had the second dose (born 2018)World Health Organization and UNICEF estimate: 92 in 100 given a second dose, 2024

Tilastoraportti 5/2026, rokotuskattavuus, THL (the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare), 26 March 2026

Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), as THL's repository records for this report. Dooram drew the pictures; THL's figures are not changed.

Dooram found no terms of reuse for THL's report, read in its public repository (thl.fi refuses Dooram's reader); its figures are restated with credit and a link.

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The vaccine is the MMR series, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella. North Savo is the highest county and Åland the lowest, the two THL names.

“Vuonna 2023 syntyneistä lapsista MPR-rokotussarja (suojaa tuhkarokolta, sikotaudilta ja vihurirokolta) aloitettiin 94,5 prosentille.”

In English, Dooram's translation: “Of children born in 2023, the MMR series (protecting against measles, mumps and rubella) was started for 94.5 per cent.”

THL asks that at least 95 in 100 have the second dose. It also says true coverage is possibly somewhat higher than the register's figures.

The worldwide estimate counts the second dose, made the same way for every country; Dooram's grade uses it. Finland's own figures lead here.

Sources: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare), Rokotuskattavuus (vaccination coverage), Tilastoraportti 5/2026 (childhood vaccination coverage, statistical report 5/2026, 26 March 2026), pages 1, 5, 6 and 12 of the file, read 17 October 2026. World Health Organization and UNICEF, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026.

The health checks the law requires

By law every child in Finland is offered at least nine health checks in the first year of life, at least six between the ages of 1 and 6, and one in every school year.

“lapselle tämän ensimmäisen ikävuoden aikana vähintään yhdeksän terveystarkastusta”

In English, Dooram's translation: “for a child, during its first year, at least nine health checks”

Source: Finlex (the Ministry of Justice's database of Finnish law), Valtioneuvoston asetus neuvolatoiminnasta, koulu- ja opiskeluterveydenhuollosta sekä lasten ja nuorten ehkäisevästä suun terveydenhuollosta (338/2011) (the government decree on child health clinics, school and student health care, 338/2011), read 17 October 2026.

Health care

Do older people have the flu vaccine?

59.9 in 100 people aged 65 and over had the flu vaccine in the 2025-26 season, as THL's register showed on 17 October 2026. In Helsinki it was 68.3.

Flu vaccine, 65 and over

59.9 in 100 people aged 65 and over had the flu vaccine in the 2025-26 season, as THL's register showed on 17 October 2026

59.9 in 100 across the country; higher in Helsinki (68.3). People aged 65 and over with the flu vaccine, 2025-26, in every 100, as read on 17 October 2026

59.9in 100Finland

  • 68.3Higher: Helsinki

Source: Rokotusrekisteri (the vaccination register), influenssarokotusten kattavuus, THL, as read on 17 October 2026 (data updated 13 October 2026)

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Flu vaccination at 65 and over in Finland

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59.9 in 100 people aged 65 and over had the flu vaccine in the 2025-26 season, as THL's register showed on 17 October 2026. In Helsinki it was 68.3.

People aged 65 and over with the flu vaccine, 2025-26, in every 100, as read on 17 October 2026

  • Helsinki68.3
  • Finland59.9

Rokotusrekisteri (the vaccination register), influenssarokotusten kattavuus, THL, as read on 17 October 2026 (data updated 13 October 2026)

© Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), as printed on the cube. Dooram drew the picture; THL's figures are not changed.

Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), as THL's repository records for this report. Dooram drew the pictures; THL's figures are not changed.

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812,160 of 1,355,614 people aged 65 and over. THL works out every season again each time it refreshes the register, against the newest population, so a season read on another day can differ; Dooram gives the day it read.

“Rokotetun henkilön ikä ja kotikunta määritetään nykyhetkestä ja rokotuskattavuus arvioidaan viimeisimmän väestötiedon mukaisesti.”

In English, Dooram's translation: “A vaccinated person's age and home municipality are set as of today, and coverage is estimated against the latest population data.”

Åland is not drawn: THL says the vaccination records arriving from Åland since autumn 2024 are probably incomplete.

Sources: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare), Influenssarokotusten kattavuus (flu vaccine coverage by season) (the vaccination register's flu vaccine coverage by season and area), every area, 2025-2026, week 20, read 17 October 2026. Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare), Rokotuskattavuus (vaccination coverage), Tilastoraportti 5/2026 (childhood vaccination coverage, statistical report 5/2026, 26 March 2026), page 23 of the file, read 17 October 2026.

Health care

How does health care work in Finland?

Everyone permanently resident in Finland has the right to the care their health needs. 80.8% of the $30.98 billion (28,650 million euros) spent on health in 2023 was paid through government and compulsory insurance; households paid 14.3% themselves.

2023Government and compulsory insurance

80.8% of the $30.98 billion (28,650 million euros) spent on health in 2023 was paid through government and compulsory insurance

Government and compulsory insurance: $81 of every $100. Who paid for health in 2023, in every 100
  • Government and compulsory insurance: $81
  • Everyone else: $19Households $14, Employers $5

Source: Eurostat, health care expenditure by financing scheme and by function (hlth_sha11_hf, hlth_sha11_hc), Finland, 2023, provisional

How health care works in Finland
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How health care works in Finland

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Everyone permanently resident in Finland has the right to the care their health needs. 80.8% of the $30.98 billion (28,650 million euros) spent on health in 2023 was paid through government and compulsory insurance; households paid 14.3% themselves.

Who paid for health in 2023, in every 100

  • Government and compulsory insurance80.8%
  • Households, out of their own pockets14.3%
  • Employers, private insurance and charities4.9%
How health care works in Finland

Eurostat, health care expenditure by financing scheme and by function (hlth_sha11_hf, hlth_sha11_hc), Finland, 2023, provisional

Reused with Eurostat acknowledged as the source, as its copyright notice asks. Dooram divided the amounts into shares and converted euros to dollars, as each card says; Eurostat's figures are not changed.

About this figure

Eurostat's health accounts for Finland, 2023, marked provisional: all spending on health, public and private. Finland's own figures are published by THL on a site Dooram's reader may not open. Dollars are converted by Dooram at the 2023 average rate of 0.9248 euros to $1 (World Bank: 0.924840; the Federal Reserve's gives 0.924470).

Sources: Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union), Health care expenditure by financing scheme (hlth_sha11_hf) and by function (hlth_sha11_hc) (the System of Health Accounts for Finland, 2023 (provisional)), hlth_sha11_hf, 2023, read 19 October 2026. World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the International Monetary Fund, Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average), PA.NUS.FCRF, read 19 October 2026. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, G.5A Foreign Exchange Rates (Annual), read 19 October 2026.

Air and water

Is the air clean in Finland?

On Helsinki's Mannerheimintie, a busy street, fine particles averaged 7.0 micrograms in a cubic metre in 2025, above the World Health Organization's guideline of 5. In Lapland's clean background air they averaged 1.6.

2025Fine particles, a Helsinki street

7.0 micrograms of fine particles in a cubic metre on average in 2025, on Helsinki's Mannerheimintie, a busy street

7.0: over the World Health Organization guideline of 5. Fine particles, micrograms in a cubic metre of air, yearly average, 2025

7.0Helsinki, Mannerheimintie (a busy street) · micrograms in a cubic metre of air

  • Over World Health Organization guideline, 5

Other readings: Helsinki, Kallio, 5.4; Lapland, Muonio Sammaltunturi, 1.6.

Source: Ilmanlaatu pääkaupunkiseudulla vuonna 2025, HSY, table 12; Ilmatieteen laitos (the Finnish Meteorological Institute), open data, Muonio Sammaltunturi, 2025

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Air quality in Finland

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On Helsinki's Mannerheimintie, a busy street, fine particles averaged 7.0 micrograms in a cubic metre in 2025, above the World Health Organization's guideline of 5. In Lapland's clean background air they averaged 1.6.

Fine particles, micrograms in a cubic metre of air, yearly average, 2025

  • Helsinki, Mannerheimintie (a busy street)7.0
  • Helsinki, Kallio5.4
  • World Health Organization guideline5.0
  • Lapland, Muonio Sammaltunturi1.6

Ilmanlaatu pääkaupunkiseudulla vuonna 2025, HSY, table 12; Ilmatieteen laitos (the Finnish Meteorological Institute), open data, Muonio Sammaltunturi, 2025

Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). The yearly average is Dooram's, from 8,724 hourly readings; the readings are not changed.

HSY's report carries no licence that Dooram found; its figures are restated with credit and a link.

About this figure

Three measuring stations, not the whole country. Helsinki's two are HSY's own yearly averages. Lapland's is Dooram's average of 8,724 hourly readings at the Finnish Meteorological Institute's background station at Sammaltunturi, Muonio.

The European Union's yearly limit is 25 micrograms, and its new limit 10. HSY says the yearly limit has never been exceeded in the Helsinki region since it began measuring.

Sources: HSY (Helsinki Region Environmental Services), Ilmanlaatu pääkaupunkiseudulla vuonna 2025 (air quality in the Helsinki capital region in 2025), pages 22, 59 and 126 of the file, read 17 October 2026. Ilmatieteen laitos (the Finnish Meteorological Institute), Avoin data, ilmanlaatu (open data, air quality) (hourly fine particle readings, station Muonio Sammaltunturi, 2025), read 17 October 2026. World Health Organization, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026.

What is not on this page yet?

What a reader might look for here and will not find, and what kind of “no” each is.

  • Whether tap water is safe to drinkCould not be readTHL, the national health institute, publishes the yearly results of drinking water tests on thl.fi, whose rules file refuses Dooram's reader. The only figure found was quoted second-hand, by the water utilities' association, from THL's report for 2020. Dooram shows no figure until it can read THL's own, and will ask THL for leave to read it.
  • Finland's own cancer countsWaits on written permissionThe Finnish Cancer Registry counts every cancer found in Finland and the results of its screening programmes. Its pages state no terms of reuse. Dooram adds its figures here once it gives written permission to show them.

Dooram informs; it does not give medical advice. Every figure names who published it and when.

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