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Tue, 31 May, 2016 12:07:49 AM FTimes Report, May 31  Families by type in 1992–2015. Source: Families 2015, Statistics Finland. The number of families in Finland grew by 1,700 from the previous year, raising the total figure to 1,475,000 at the end of 2015, according to Statistics Finland's data.
Even though the number of all families grew slightly, the number of families with underage children decreased. This mainly indicates that the age group of children coming of age is larger than the new age groups being born.
There were 571,000 families with underage children, the statistics show.
A family with underage children has at least one child under the age of 18 living at home. All in all, the changes in the numbers of families are very small on an annual level.
Sixty-five per cent of all families were families of married couples. The number of families with a married couple and children fell by close on six thousand families.
The numbers of other family types, however, grew that much that the number of all families was still growing.
Nine out of ten families with a married couple and children at the end of 2014 still remained a family with a married couple and children at the end of 2015.
During 2015, the family type of one-tenth of families with a married couple and children changed as per the data.
Around 30 000 new families with married couple and children were formed. Twenty-three per cent were families of cohabiting couples and 12 per cent were one-parent families.
There were 2,600 families of registered same-sex couples. People living alone numbered 1,112,000.
The average size of a family was 2.8. As late as in 1990, the average size was three persons.
Altogether 74 per cent of the Finnish population, or 4,081,000 persons, belonged to a family. The share of persons who belong to a family has been falling steadily. As late as in 1990, their share of the population was still 82 per cent.
The number of families with underage children, 571,000, went down by 2,100 families from the year before.
The number has been falling slowly over the past ten years. Forty per cent of the population belonged to a family with children.
The commonest family type, which 60 per cent of the families with children belong to, continued to be a married couple with children.
Nineteen per cent of the families with children were families of cohabiting couples. There were almost equally many families of a mother and children, whose share was 18 per cent.
The number of families with a father and children continued to be very low, three per cent.
In 600 families with children, the parents were registered as same-sex couples.
In 2015, there were a total of 1,053,000 underage children in families with children. Forty-three per cent had one child and 39 per cent had two children. Thirteen per cent of families with underage children had three children and five per cent at least four children aged under 18.
The average number of children was 1.84. The figure remained stable, although the number of children declined.
As a result of the lower number of births in recent years, the number of families with small children also went down. There were 153,000 families with children aged under three.
From 2011, the number has fallen by around six thousand.
On average, reconstituted families had slightly more children than families with children in general. The average number of children was 2.09.
Around 59 per cent of the children were brought into the family by their mother. The share remained at the same level for a quarter century.
At the end of 2015, there were 52,000 reconstituted families. The number of reconstituted families increased slightly compared to the previous year.
Roughly one-half of the parents of the reconstituted families were cohabiting and one-half were married.
A reconstituted family is a family with at least one child aged under 18 of just one of the parents.
Families by type in 1990–2015
Source: Families 2015, Statistics Finland. More News
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