Quality report (OSF): Health Care and Social Welfare Personnel Data description Statistical presentation The Health and Social Services Personnel statistics describe persons permanently resident in Finland on the last day of the year who primarily...

Human health and environmental health go hand in hand People’s health, climate change mitigation and broader environmental wellbeing are not separate objectives – many solutions support all of them. “When different choices are made easy and afford...

Quality report: Social protection expenditure and financing Data description Statistical presentation The statistics provide comprehensive information on the distribution of social protection expenditure and financing in Finland. The time series o...

Client fees in social welfare and health care may increase at a higher rate in the future – Government wants to link the fees to the wellbeing services county index Published 15.5.2025 The views expressed in the blog posts are the writers' own and...

Our everyday choices affect both human health and the environment People’s health, climate change mitigation and other aspects of environmental well-being are not separate goals – many measures serve all of them at the same time. “Environmental we...

The Competence center promotes the creation, dissemination, and implementation of sustainable social innovations and strengthens the innovation capacity of the actors involved.

Quality report: National Health Index Data description Statistical presentation The National Health Index is a statistical dataset produced jointly by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, THL) and the Soc...

Promoting health and well-being – Physical Activity On this page Promotion of physical activity in municipalities has remained stable Overall, the promotion of physical activity by municipalities remained almost unchanged at the national level in ...

Registry and Archive – Archival materials THL holds the archival materials of its predecessor authorities. National Public Health Institute (1911–31 December 2008) The history of the National Public Health Institute (Kansanterveyslaitos, KTL) bega...

Registry and Archive – List of tasks This page lists THL’s most common tasks. The list helps you gain a clearer understanding of the types of information processed by THL. Using the task categories, you can further specify your information request...

Mediation service for criminal and civil cases – Information Mediation is a free and voluntary service in which parties to an offence or a dispute can discuss the incident in a supported and constructive manner. The aim of mediation is not to inve...

What we do We defend well-being, health, and safety The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is an independent state-owned expert and research institute that defends the well-being, health and safety of the population. THL’s duties are e...

Funding THL's financing in 2025 THL spent a total of approximately 247 million euros on its operations. THL’s key funding sources include funding from the state budget, co-funded activities, and services subject to a fee. Budget funding 2025 Of th...

Privacy notice for the MoniSuomi survey Information for those participating in the study This is a description of how your personal data will be processed in the National study on the health, welfare and services of the foreign-born population (Mo...

Privacy notice for the Healthy Finland 2022–2024 survey EU General Data Protection Regulation, Articles 12–14. The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is carrying out the Healthy Finland survey to produce information on the health, well...

Privacy notice for Future Finland project The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) processes personal data for the purpose of carrying out its statutory duties. THL complies with applicable data protection legislation when processing per...

Programme for suicide prevention Suicide prevention requires long-term work Statistics on suicides have been compiled in Finland since 1751. Suicide mortality has halved since 1990. A turn for the better occurred during the National Suicide Preven...

Privacy notice for the Youth nutrition study Information for study participants EU General data protection regulation, articles 12–14. This document describes how your personal data will be processed in this study. Participation in the study is vo...

Sustainability We at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare want to promote sustainable development, the welfare of the population, health and everyday safety. For our part, we strive to ensure that decision-makers can draft informed sustain...

Quality report: Tobacco statistics Data description Statistical presentation The Tobacco Statistics is a consolidated set of data compiled from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Statistics Finland, Finnish Customs, the Tax Admini...