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  • Population......................................................................5,223,442 (July 2005 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................0.16% (2005 est.)
  • Birth rate.....................................................10.5 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Death rate................................................9.79 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................0.89 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.......Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.7%, Russian 0.4%, Estonian 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Sami 0.1%
Member of what is now the European Union since 1995

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Other Resources

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

Finnish Directorate of Immigration
http://www.uvi.fi/netcomm/

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

US Census Bureau International Data Base
www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html
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in the Global Data Center
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