HELSINKIUUSIMAA REGION IN FIGURES 2021
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municipalities
Askola, Espoo, Hanko, Helsinki, Hyvinkää, Ingå, Järvenpää, Karkkila, Kauniainen, Kerava, Kirkkonummi, Lapinjärvi, Lohja, Loviisa, Myrskylä, Mäntsälä, Nurmijärvi, Pornainen, Porvoo, Pukkila, Raseborg, Sipoo, Siuntio, Tuusula, Vantaa, Vihti
Fresh water 471 km2, 3%
Salt water 6,491 km2, 40 %
Land area 9,097 km2, 57 %
A GROWING REGION
1.7 million inhabitants 31 % of the entire population of Finland
Population growth about
13,000 inhabitants in 2020
By 2040 a population growth of
200,000 inhabitants in Helsinki-Uusimaa Region* *Statistics Finland, population forecast
DRIVING FORCE OF FINLAND’S ECONOMY
39 % of the Finnish GDP Industries Services
Processing
Primary production
82.6 %
16.8 %
0.6 %
eg. manufacturing , eg. trade, health and social industry, education, ICT construction and mining
50 %
of R&D expenses in Finland
eg. agriculture, forestry and fishing
Helsinki-Uusimaa Region has
827,000 workplaces i.e. one third of the Finnish total
Workplaces:
Private sector 64 % Public sector 28 % Entrepreneurs 8%
Employment rate for 15–64 year olds 74.1 %, Average rate for Finland 71.6 %
Unemployment rate 7.2 % * Average rate for Finland 7.8 % * Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey, annual average 2020
A MULTILINGUAL REGION In Helsinki-Uusimaa Region 14,7 % speak another language 7,7 % speak Swedish
77,6 % speak Finnish
58 % of those
speaking another language in Finland live in HelsinkiUusimaa Region
Russian
The most commonly spoken foreign languages are
Estonian Somali Arabic
TOWARDS CLIMATE NEUTRAL REGION
Source: Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, preliminary data for 2020.
Emissions per inhabitant 3,9 tons CO₂e Change 2005–2020 –38 % Distribution of greenhouse gas emissions Waste treatment 3,7 % Industry 0,8 % Agriculture 3,8 % F-gases 4,5 % Machinery 5,6 %
District heating 26,7 %
Electricity 11,4 % Rail transport 0,3 % Water transport 1,5 % Road transport 30,5 %
Oil heating 4 % Electric heating 3,5 % Other heating 3,7 %
HELSINKI-UUSIMAA REGION
NORWAY
Helsinki
SWEDEN Baltic Sea
RUSSIA
ESTONIA
Information from 2019–2020, Source: Statistics Finland
FINLAND
North Sea
LITHUANIA
UNITED INGDOM
The Helsinki-Uusimaa RegionalRUSSIA Council is a regional developer, creating conditions for wellbeing, economic NETHERLANDS POLAND development and a safe, as well as anBELARUS attractive GERMANY BELGIUM physical environment for its citizens. LUXEMBOURG
The Regional Council CZECHis also a strategic planner, UKRAINE REPUBLIC a land use planner and a coordinator.
FRANCE
SLOVAKIA
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Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council 6/2021
LATVIA
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