|
Fri, 29 May, 2015 12:08:47 AM FTimes Report, May 29  Families by type in 1992–2014. Source: Population and Justice Statistics, Statistics Finland. There were 1,474,000 families in Finland at the end of 2014, according to Statistics Finland’s data.
The number had grown by 2,600 families from the previous year. Even though the number of all families grew slightly, the number of families with underage children decreased during the time.
This mainly indicates that the age group of children coming of age is larger than the new age groups being born.
There were 574,000 families with underage children. A family with underage children had at least one child under the age of 18 living at home, the statistics show.
All in all, the changes in the numbers of families are very small on an annual level.
The average size of a family was 2.8. As late as in 1990, the average size was three persons. Altogether 75 per cent of the Finnish population, or 4,084,000 persons, belonged to families. The share of persons who belong to a family has been falling steadily as per the data.
As late as in 1990, their share of the population was still 82 per cent. Sixty-five per cent of all families were families of married couples.
Twenty-three per cent were families of cohabiting couples and 12 per cent were one-parent families.
There were slightly over 2,000 families of registered same-sex couples. The number of families with married spouses and children has decreased by close on five thousand families while people living alone numbered 1,098,000.
The number of families with underage children was, 574,000, showing a decrease 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 belongs 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.
The number of families with a father and children continued to be very low, that is under three per cent. In slightly over 500 families with children, the parents were a registered same-sex couple.
On average, reconstituted families have slightly more children than families with children in general. Around 60 per cent of the children were brought into the family by their mother.
The share has remained at the same level for a quarter century, according to the data.
Families by type in 1990–2014 Open this table as a bigger version
Source: Population and Justice Statistics, Statistics Finland. More News
|
|
Finland Times
| Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 |
|
Copyright © 2025 All rights reserved
|
||||
