Disability services

Approximately 136,000 clients in services for persons with disabilities 

An estimated 2.4 per cent of the population, or 136,000 people, were clients of services for people with disabilities in October, November and December 2025.

These estimates are based on data from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare’s Social welfare monitoring register. The Social welfare monitoring register brings together social welfare data stored in Kanta Services and separately provided by wellbeing services counties.

The introduction of Social welfare monitoring register will specify the estimated number of clients of services for persons with disabilities

Read more about social welfare clients (link to the social welfare/clients tab)

Emphasis on clients aged over 65 in services for persons with disabilities

Forty-nine per cent of the clients of services for persons with disabilities were aged over 65, while 24 per cent of the population are aged over 65.

Age distribution of clients of services for persons with disabilities in October, November and December 2025.
Age group	Clients
0–4	572
5–9	1 886
10–14	2 179
15–19	2 232
20–24	1 909
25–29	1 609
30–34	1 792
35–39	1 609
40–44	1 639
45–49	1 674
50–54	1 771
55–59	2 344
60–64	2 883
65–69	3 251
70–74	3 747
75–79	4 662
80–84	4 115
85–89	3 891
90–94	2 592
95–99	958
100–	136

Only data from areas deemed comprehensive are included.

Monitoring of social services developing over the next few years

The introduction of Kanta Services and the Social welfare monitoring register using it will multiply the information we have on services for persons with disabilities in the next few years.

Currently, the data, for which various sources are used, have been compiled in a publication that is updated annually.

The impacts of the legislative amendment are monitored

The new Disability Services Act, which entered into force at the beginning of 2025, changed several social services. THL monitors the changes with a separate follow-up.