Sat, 24 May, 2014 12:40:20 AM FTimes Report, May 24 Number of children in families with underage children in 1950–2013. Source: Statistics Finland. The number of families with underage children has been falling slowly over the past ten years.
The average number of children was 1.84 in 2013, according to Statistics Finland.
Forty per cent of the population belongs to a family with children. The figure has remained stable, although the number has declined.
The total number of families with children in Finland was 576,000 at the end of 2013. The number is 2,700 lower than in the previous year, the data says.
Many factors have an effect on the number of families with children, such as the sizes of age groups being born and those turning 18, as well as international migration.
In 2013, there were a total of 1,057,000 underage children in families with children.
The trend of the number of families with one, two and three children is falling.
In contrast, the number of families with at least four children has remained fairly stable.
Forty-three per cent of the families with children have one child and 38 per cent of them have two children.
Thirteen per cent of families with underage children have three children and five per cent at least four children aged under 18.
The family statistics describe the size of families in Finland at a given moment and thus do not concern with the eventual number of children in families.
The commonest family type, which 60 per cent of the families with children belong to, continues to be a married couple with children.
Nineteen per cent of the families with children were families of cohabiting couples.
In slightly over 400 families with children, the parents are registered same-sex couples.
At the end of 2013, the total number of families was 1,471,000. The number has grown by nearly 5,400 families from the previous year.
Families by type in 1990–2013
1) Families of the type “registered couple with children” numbered 467. Source: Population and Cause of Death Statistics, Statistics Finland.
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