In all, Scandinavians pay $25,488 a head in taxes compared with $14,793 a head in the United States — 72 percent more. This is what it takes to finance a Scandinavian-style social welfare state. It can’t be d
The Sámi people are Finland's indigenous people. Some of the Sámi also live in Sweden, Norway and Russia and their population counts in total about 75,000 people. Did you know that the Sámi people are the only recognised indigenous people in the EU area? There are only few Sámi-langua...
It is also worth remembering that Finland had had to endure the plague just as the Great Northern War began, with Helsinki alone seeing two-thirds of its population die in 1700 alone. In 1721 the Treaty of Nystad and the Stockholm treaties were signed; this saw Russia become the new major...
Population: (2025 est.) 5,642,000 Currency Exchange Rate: 1 USD equals 0.937 euro Head Of State: President: Alexander Stubb Show More Throughout theCold Warera, Finland skillfully maintained a neutral political position, although a 1948 treaty with the Soviet Union (terminated 1991) required Fi...
Long-term unemployed perceived poorer capabilities compared to the general Finnish population. Long-term unemployed men perceived poorer capabilities compared to long-term unemployed women. CFA indicated the data fit with the CA. The SEM model supported the theoretical assumptions of CA: perceived ...
Moreover, between 2000 and 2019, the share of population living in rural areas has decreased from 33% to 27%, whilst urban population has increased from 66% to 72%.1 Both countries have an economic history in which the rural areas were heavily dependent upon resource-based activities (for ...
Victoria, the state where this research was conducted, has a population of 6.8 million, which is greater than the whole of Finland. Amplifying the difference between Australia and Finland in relation to the local character of school attendance is the impact of private schools, which in Australia...
Regional variations in political mobilisationOn the incorporation of the agrarian population into the State in Finland, 1907–1932doi:10.1080/03468757608578904Risto AlapuroDecent of sociology at the University of HelsinkiScandinavian Journal of History...
POPULATION. The population of Finland was estimated in July of 2000 as 5,167,486. The population growth rate is a very small 0.17 percent and generally has been small. Finland has a high proportion of elderly: only 18 percent of the population are under 14 years of age and 15 percent ...
Compared with other Nordic populations, Finns are more likely to support the idea that men should be in charge of earning a livelihood for the family while women should take more responsibility for childcare (Salin et al. 2018). As a result, despite the strong welfare state, in many ways,...