HELSINKIUUSIMAA REGION IN FIGURES 2019
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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
30% of the entire population of Finland
Population growth
18,000 inhabitants in 2018 By 2035 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
81.9 %
17.3 %
0.8 %
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
784,000 workplaces i.e. one third of the Finnish total
Workplaces:
Private sector 63 % Public sector 29 % Entrepreneurs 8%
Employment rate for 15–64 year olds 74.3 %, Average rate for Finland 71.7 %
Unemployment rate 6.9 % * Average rate for Finland 7.4 % * Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey, annual average 2018
A MULTILINGUAL REGION in Helsinki-Uusimaa Region 8 % speak Swedish 13 % speak another language
79 % speak Finnish
56 % of those
speaking another language in Finland live in HelsinkiUusimaa Region
Russian
The most commonly spoken foreign languages are
Estonian Somali Arabic
POPULAR WITH TRAVELLERS
6,5 millions
Direct tourism income
4.5 billion euros
annual overnight stays by tourists
yearly
International travellers 47 %
Domestic travellers 53 %
Russians, Germans, Swedes and Chinese being the largest groups
Travellers at Helsinki-Vantaa airport in 2018
20.8 million in 2005
11.1 million
Source: Finavia
in 2011
14.9 million
HELSINKI-UUSIMAA REGION
NORWAY
Helsinki
SWEDEN Baltic Sea
RUSSIA
ESTONIA
Information from 2016–2018, 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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SLOVENIA
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Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council 2/2019
LATVIA
DENMARK