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Finland is industrially highly developed and technologically advanced, sparsely inhabited country with a population of 5.2 million, including a Swedish-speaking minority of 290,000 people or 5.5 per cent, mostly living along the western and southern coastline.

In Lapland lives a Sámi-speaking minority of 1,700 inhabitants. Some 133,000 speak a foreign language as mother language. The area is of 338,000 km2 with a density of 17 persons per km2. There are 2.4 million households and 80 per cent of people live in urban or semi-urban municipalities. The share of aged population is slightly increasing. 86 per cent of women aged 25-54 are employed outside the home.

The total turnover of mass media makes 2.7 per cent of GDP. On average, a household spends 4 per cent of total expenditures on mass media. Expenditures on telecommunications by households have grown. An average household spends about € 1,000 per year on telecommunications charges.




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Finland
Finland