Tuesday 27 August 2019

Among immigrants in Helsinki come from the USSR

Last year, the largest increase in the number of residents of Helsinki of Asian origin.

Every sixth resident of Helsinki is of foreign origin. At the beginning of this year, 103,000 people with immigrant backgrounds lived in the capital.

This is one sixth of the total population of the city. Of these, 18 percent were born in Finland, that is, they belong to the second generation of foreigners.

Most of the people living in Helsinki are natives of the former Soviet Union - eighteen thousand people, as well as immigrants from Estonia, Somalia, Iraq and China. Last year, the largest increase in the number of residents of Helsinki of Asian origin.


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