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Geography

Location: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulfof Finland, between Sweden and Russia

Area:
total area: 337,030 sq km
land area: 305,470 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Montana

Land boundaries: total 2,628 km, Norway 729 km, Sweden 586 km, Russia 1,313 km

Coastline: 1,126 km


People

Population: 5,085,206 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 469,666; male 491,484)
15-64 years: 67% (female 1,683,371; male 1,716,307)
65 years and over: 14% (female 457,061; male 267,317)

Population growth rate: 0.3% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.22 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.77 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.59 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 5.2 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.22 years
male: 72.51 years
female: 80.11 years

Total fertility rate: 1.79 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Finn, Swede, Lapp, Gypsy, Tatar

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 89%, Greek Orthodox 1%, none 9%, other 1%

Languages: Finnish 93.5% (official), Swedish 6.3% (official), small Lapp- and Russian-speaking minorities

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.)
total population: 100%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Finland
conventional short form: Finland

Type: republic

Capital: Helsinki

Independence: 6 December 1917 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: 17 July 1919


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $81.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 3.5%

National product per capita: $16,140

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.1%

Unemployment rate: 22%

Electricity:
capacity: 13,360,000 kW
production: 58 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 12,196 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Games involved a crew of 2,100 who worked with more than 3,500 performers as well as thousands of athletes who celebrated on the field of Olympic Stadium.