Finland: family types 2021

In 2021, 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 2021, by family type

Characteristic	Number of families
Married couple without children	538,099
Married couple with children	381,559
Co-habiting opposite-sex couple without children, opposite-sex spouses	234,601
Mother and children	151,158
Co-habiting couple with children	126,099
Father and children	34,462

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September 2022

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Finland

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

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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