In 2022, the most common family type in Finland was a married couple without children. The number of married couples with children has decreased for several decades, while the number of married couples without children has been on the rise.
After the amendment to the Marriage Act in March 2017, many registered partners changed their partnership into a marriage and new registered partnerships can no longer be formed.
Number of families in Finland in 2022, by family type
The source adds the following information: "Couple without children refers to a couple that has never had children or whose children no longer live with their parents.
Couples with children include not only couples with common children but also couples whose children are not common.
For data protection reasons, same-sex married couples and couples in registered partnerships are classified in municipal tables together with opposite-sex married couples."
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Statistics Finland. (June 16, 2023). Number of families in Finland in 2022, by family type [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 27, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101541/families-by-type-in-finland/
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