A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Finland: young people citizenship activity
Authors: Mika Metsärinne, Riitta Korhonen
Editors: Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz, Anna M. Zalewska, Kerry J. Kennedy
Publication year: 2018
Book title : Young People and Active Citizenship in Post-Soviet Times - A Challenge for Citizenship Education
Series title: Asia-Europe Education Dialogue
First page : 189
Last page: 203
ISBN: 978-1-138-67977-1
eISBN: 978-1-315-56400-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564005
Finland has a population of around 5.5 million. Population increasing is mainly
based on net immigration in last years. The offi cial languages are Finnish (spoken
by 91%) and Swedish (spoken by 5.4%). Furthermore, Sámi (in Lapland) is the
mother tongue of around 1700 people, and this language is also used in Sweden
and Norway in the Lapland area. The major religions in Finland are Lutheran
(73.3 %) and Orthodox Christianity (around 1.1%). (Statistic Finland, 2016.) In
practice, Finnish so ciety is fairly secularized.
