Disability services

Approximately 150,000 clients in services for persons with disabilities

An estimated 2.7 per cent of the population, or 154,000 people, were clients of services for people with disabilities in July, August and September 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

Fifty 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 July, August and September 2025.
Age group	Clients
0–5	338
5–10	1091
10–15	1312
15–20	1446
20–25	1256
25–30	1070
30–35	1080
35–40	977
40–45	1013
45–50	1084
50–55	1165
55–60	1607
60–65	1913
65–70	2266
70–75	2564
75–80	3115
80–85	2619
85–90	2569
90–95	1661
95–100	688
100–	86

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.