Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Finland

Poverty at the national line in Finland in 2022 — 12.2%. Ranked 11 in the world out of 52. Since 2003, the indicator has risen by 1.2 pp.

2022 12.2% −0.5 pp vs 2021
World rank 11of 52
Period maximum 13.8%2008
Period minimum 10.8%2020

Trend over time

2003–2022 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Finland, 2003–20221011121314200320052007200920112013201520172019202120222003: 11%2004: 11.7%2005: 12.6%2006: 13%2007: 13.6%2008: 13.8%2009: 13.1%2010: 13.7%2011: 13.2%2012: 11.8%2013: 12.8%2014: 12.4%2015: 11.6%2016: 11.5%2017: 12%2018: 11.6%2019: 12.2%2020: 10.8%2021: 12.7%2022: 12.2%
Change over the period: +1.2 pp Annual average: 0.06 pp
Poverty at the national line — Finland, by year Finland All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 12.2 −0.5 pp
2021 12.7 +1.9 pp
2020 10.8 −1.4 pp
2019 12.2 +0.6 pp
2018 11.6 −0.4 pp
2017 12 +0.5 pp
2016 11.5 −0.1 pp
2015 11.6 −0.8 pp
2014 12.4 −0.4 pp
2013 12.8 +1 pp
2012 11.8 −1.4 pp
2011 13.2 −0.5 pp
2010 13.7 +0.6 pp
2009 13.1 −0.7 pp
2008 13.8 +0.2 pp
2007 13.6 +0.6 pp
2006 13 +0.4 pp
2005 12.6 +0.9 pp
2004 11.7 +0.7 pp
2003 11

Northern Europe, 2022

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of the population below the national poverty line — the one a country has defined in its legislation or in the methodology of its statistical office. The indicator answers a question the international lines do not ask: how many people are poor by the standards of their own society. That is exactly why it is unfit for comparing countries with one another — yet it shows better than any other indicator how a country assesses poverty at home, and it is what the results of national policy are judged by.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: poverty lines differ between countries, and a sum of shares computed against different lines has no definition. For comparing countries there are the three international lines.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.