Helsinki has reached a historic milestone with the city\u2019s population exceeding 700,000, said the City of Helsinki in a press release on Friday.<\/p>\n
According to calculations by the City of Helsinki Urban Research and Statistics Unit, the 700,000-resident mark will be exceeded around mid-August. <\/p>\n
Helsinki has been experiencing record-breaking population growth over the last couple of years. <\/p>\n
The previous similar milestone was reached in August 2012, when Helsinki\u2019s population hit the 600,000 mark.<\/p>\n
Since the 2010s, about 80% of Helsinki\u2019s population growth has been due to migration from abroad and from other parts of Finland. In 2025, net migration accounted for 90% of the city\u2019s population growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cHelsinki\u2019s growth into a city of 700,000 residents is a testament to our city\u2019s appeal, its opportunities and its vibrant urban life. Behind this milestone lie 700,000 different people and stories from Helsinki. The most important thing is that every Helsinki resident can feel that they are part of our city and live a good and meaningful life in Helsinki on their own terms,\u201d said Mayor of Helsinki Daniel Sazonov.<\/p>\n
Helsinki\u2019s population has been growing by an average of 5,600 people a year since 2000. In 2025, Helsinki\u2019s population grew by more than 10,000 people.<\/p>\n
At the moment, the fastest-growing population group is working-age people. In Helsinki, the largest age group is 25\u201334-year-olds, whereas elsewhere in Finland the typical resident is aged 55\u201364.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe working-age population is expected to continue growing rapidly in the coming years as well. In terms of the city\u2019s total dependency ratio, this development is very positive,\u201d said Hertta Syd\u00e4nlammi, a demographer of the City of Helsinki.<\/p>\n
As is the case across Finland, the number of older residents is also growing in Helsinki. In 2025, 11% of Helsinki\u2019s population growth was due to natural population growth, which means that more people were born than died. This figure has been falling at a relatively steady rate in recent years.<\/p>\n
Population expected to be million in 2060s<\/p>\n
Helsinki is following a similar trajectory to cities such as Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen in terms of population growth. Helsinki\u2019s population growth has, admittedly, been slower than these cities, but are there aspects of the city\u2019s development that could serve as a model for other places.<\/p>\n
According to population projections, Helsinki\u2019s population will exceed 800,000 by the end of the 2030s and 900,000 by the mid-2050s, reaching one million in the 2060s.<\/p>\n
The number of Helsinki residents born abroad has more than tripled this century. The share of Helsinki residents who were born abroad is 19%, while the share of foreign nationals is 13%.<\/p>\n
The share of foreign-language speakers, meaning those whose mother tongue is something other than Finnish, S\u00e1mi or Swedish, was 21% in Helsinki at the end of 2025, compared to 11% in Finland as a whole.<\/p>\n
\u201cHelsinki is an extremely diverse city, and we have over 150 registered native languages. It\u2019s wonderful that Helsinki is such an appealing place that people from so many different corners of the world want to come and live here,\u201d Syd\u00e4nlammi added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helsinki has reached a historic milestone with the city\u2019s population exceeding 700,000, said the City of Helsinki in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[6692,6690,6671,6657,6669,6655,6635,649,6678,3208,6639,6681,6637,4625,6699,6676,307,2766,6688,6697,6647,6703,6645,6706,6695,6622,6621,4029,158,6642,6646,6684,6643,1958,3928,6644,6662,6640,113,6652,6641,6648,6668,1187,5638,5246,6674,6673,6654,6629,6670,6659,6665,6667,6687,6628,6658,6682,6685,6630,6694,6666,6677,6698,4694,306,6620,6664,6701,4559,6702,6636,6686,6700,6704,6625,3926,6633,6634,6680,6632,6626,6653,4177,6631,1884,305,6705,6651,6693,3485,6638,6707,6696,6689,6660,6683,6656,6619,132,6623,6691,6679,6011,6624,6672,6649,6627,6663,6650,6661,6675],"class_list":["post-146170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-helsinki","tag-100-years-of-independence","tag-7-up","tag-aamulehti","tag-alexandar-stubb","tag-anne-barner","tag-antti-rinne","tag-arcktikum","tag-arctic","tag-arctic-business-forum","tag-arctic-circle","tag-arctic-light-hotel","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-baltic-sea","tag-bus","tag-business-oulu","tag-centre-party","tag-christmas","tag-cococola","tag-cumlus-hotel","tag-daily-finland","tag-denmark-nordea-bank","tag-df","tag-dunsken-bank","tag-easter-holiday","tag-english-language-news-from-finland","tag-english-news-from-finland","tag-finavia","tag-finland","tag-finland-times","tag-finland-today","tag-finlandia","tag-finlandtimes","tag-finnair","tag-finnish-government","tag-ftimes","tag-green-league","tag-helsingin-sanomat","tag-helsinki","tag-helsinki-airport","tag-helsinki-times","tag-helsinki-university","tag-hridi-hautala","tag-ice","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ikea","tag-ilta-lehti","tag-ilta-sanomat","tag-juha-sipila","tag-jyvaskyla","tag-kaleva","tag-kansallinen-kokoomus","tag-kemi","tag-kittila","tag-koff","tag-kokkola","tag-kokoomus","tag-lapin-kansa","tag-lapin-kulta","tag-lapland","tag-lapland-hotels","tag-levi","tag-malmi","tag-metro","tag-microsoft","tag-national-coalition-party","tag-news-from-finland","tag-nokia","tag-norden","tag-nordic","tag-norsen","tag-northern-light","tag-olvi","tag-onnibus","tag-op-bank","tag-oulu","tag-petteri-orpo","tag-poro","tag-porocup","tag-refugees","tag-rendeer","tag-rovaniemi","tag-rovaniemi-airport","tag-santa","tag-santa-claus","tag-sauli-niinisto","tag-sdp","tag-shampoo-bank","tag-silja-lines","tag-ski-holiday","tag-snow","tag-snow-hotel","tag-snowmobile","tag-sokos-hotel","tag-sprite","tag-suomen-keskusta","tag-suomen-kuvalehti","tag-suomen-sosialidemokraattinen-puolue","tag-suomi","tag-sweden","tag-tampere","tag-tom-of-finland","tag-tornio","tag-tram","tag-turku","tag-turun-sanomat","tag-university-of-finland","tag-vaasa","tag-vihrea-liitto","tag-viking-lines","tag-ville-matti-niinisto","tag-yle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}