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Population and societyAdoptions
Statistics on adoptions describe adoptions confirmed in court and data related to adoptions, such as type of adoption, municipality of residence of the adopting family, population data on adoptive child and adoptive parents. The data are obtained from the Population Information System and published once a year.
Producer:
Statistics Finland
Change
Data on the parents of the adopted person have been published in the new database table.
Read more about the changeDatabase tables
Releases
database release | Adoptions 2021
Future releases
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Statistical experts
Inquiries primarily
Miina Keski-Petäjä
Senior Statistician
029 551 3610
Referencing instructions
Referencing instructions
Are you looking for previously published statistical data?
The statistical data released before 5.4.2022 can be found on the archive pages of the statistics.
Go to the archive page