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According to Statistics Finland, Swedish is the mother tongue of about 260,000 people in mainland Finland and of about 26,000 people in Åland, a self-governing archipelago off the west coast of Finland, where Swedish is the sole official language. Swedish-speakers comprise 5.2% of the total Finnish population [13] or about 4.9% without Åland.
Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. Approximately 87% of Finns speak Finnish as their native language. Approximately 5% of Finns speak Swedish as their native language. Swedish is spoken the most on Finland’s western and southern coast.
93% of Finns aged 18–64 can speak a foreign language, and 78% can speak two or more. 2,184,000 or 66% can speak both Swedish and English, while 1,003,000 (30%) can speak German and English and 882,000 (27%) Swedish and German.
While the majority of the population have Finnish as their first language, around 286,000 people spoke Swedish as their first language, and 2,000 people were Sami-speaking.
Apr 24, 2014 · New provisional figures from Statistics Finland show that residents whose first language is neither Finnish, Swedish nor Sámi now make up 5.4 percent of the population – while Swedish speakers make up 5.3 percent.
Feb 27, 2019 · In 1880, Swedish-speaking Finns comprised 14.3% of the total population of Finland; by 2017 the percentage had dropped to 5.2%, or about 289,000 people, according to Statistics Finland. Nonetheless, Finland’s constitution dictates that both Finnish and Swedish are the country’s official languages and thus equal in status.
Mar 31, 2022 · The number of persons speaking Finnish, Swedish or Sami as their native language went down by 10,747 persons, and the number of foreign-language speakers grew by 25,195 persons, which is most in at least 40 years.
