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Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, a peninsula with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. It has land borders with Sweden and Norway to the north and Russia to the east. Finland is part of the geographic region of Fennoscandia, which also includes Scandinavia and parts of Russia. Finland was a relative latecomer to industrialization, remaining a largely agrarian country until the 1950s. It rapidly developed an advanced economy while building an extensive Nordic-style welfare state, resulting in widespread prosperity and one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. However, since 2012 Finnish GDP growth has been negative, with a preceding peak of -8% in 2009.

Finland is a top performer in numerous metrics of national performance, including education, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, quality of life, and human development. In 2015, Finland is ranked first in the World Human Capital and the Press Freedom Index, and as the most stable country in the world in the Failed States Index. The country has a long legacy of social progressivism, in 1906, before gaining the independence; it became the second nation in the world to give the right to vote to all adult citizens and the first in the world to give full suffrage to all adult citizens. About 73.9% of Finns were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in 2014; nevertheless, the Lutheran Church estimates that approximately only 2% of its members attend church services weekly.

Facts About Finland

  • The first inhabitants of Finland were the Sami (Lapp) people who were there when the first Finnish speakers migrated in during the first millennium B.C. The Lapps moved north into the section that is today known as Lapland.
  • Today the Republic of Finland is located on a peninsula geographically within the region of Scandinavia, but Finland is actually part of Fenland instead.
  • Finland is the eighth largest country in Europe yet it is the European Union’s most sparsely populated country.
  • Finland’s capital Helsinki lies higher north in the world than almost any other capital city, second only to Sweden’s Reykjavik.

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Finland is profoundly coordinated in the worldwide economy, and universal exchange is 33% of GDP. The European Union makes 60 percent of the aggregate exchange. The biggest exchange streams are with Germany, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Netherlands, and China. Exchange arrangement is overseen by the European Union, where Finland has generally been among the organized commerce supporters, aside from agribusiness. Finland is the main Nordic nation to have joined the Eurozone; Denmark and Sweden have held their conventional monetary standards, though Iceland and Norway are not individuals from the EU by any stretch of the imagination.

Finland's business banks were the genuine pioneers of the money related industry, and they controlled most loaning to Finnish enterprises. Albeit around ten banks were thought to be business banks, just two- - the Suomen Yhdyspankki (Union Bank of Finland- - UBF) and the Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP)- - were national manages an account with broad branch systems. The four outside possessed banks dynamic in Finland likewise worked as business banks. The agreeable and investment funds banks served an extensive variety of provincial and neighborhood clients, yet more often than not practiced moderately minimal financial power. They had a tendency to represent considerable authority in giving home and homestead saving money benefits in country territories. The reserve funds banks were philanthropic banks intended to advance sparing, and they served little scale exchange and industry and additionally family units.

Finland is exceedingly coordinated in the worldwide economy, and universal exchange is 33% of GDP. The European Union makes 60 percent of the aggregate exchange. The biggest exchange streams are with Germany, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Netherlands, and China. Exchange arrangement is overseen by the European Union, where Finland has customarily been among the facilitated commerce supporters, with the exception of agribusiness. Finland is the main Nordic nation to have joined the Eurozone; Denmark and Sweden have held their conventional monetary forms, though Iceland and Norway are not individuals from the EU by any means.

Finland's business banks were the genuine pioneers of the monetary business, and they controlled most loaning to Finnish partnerships. Albeit around ten banks were thought to be business banks, just two- - the Suomen Yhdyspankki (Union Bank of Finland- - UBF) and the Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP)- - were national manages an account with broad branch systems. The four remote possessed banks dynamic in Finland additionally worked as business banks. The agreeable and investment funds banks served an extensive variety of provincial and neighborhood clients, however as a rule practiced moderately minimal financial power. They had a tendency to spend significant time in giving home and homestead managing account benefits in provincial territories. The reserve funds banks were charitable banks intended to advance sparing, and they served little scale exchange and industry and family units.

Agriculture Rye, barely, oats, potatoes, other root crops, legumes, meat and dairy products.
Manufacture Electronics, steel, copper, zinc, nickel and chemicals.
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Agriculture 2.9%
Industry 25.1%
Services (Including financial) 71.9% (2013 est.)

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Top Exports
Uncoated paper
Large flat rolled stainless steel
Sawn wood
kaolin coated paper
Refine petroleum

Top Imports
Computers
Packaged medicaments
Cars
Refined petroleum
Crud petroleum

The Helsinki Stock Exchange (Finnish: Helsingin Pörssi, Swedish: Helsingforsbörsen) is a stock trade situated in Helsinki, Finland. Since 3 September 2003, it has been a piece of OMX, alluded to as OMX Helsinki (OMXH). Since NASDAQ's procurement of OMX in February 2008, the official name of the Helsinki trade has been NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. The Helsinki Stock Exchange saw its first exchange on October 7, 1912. From that point, it remained a "free shape" money-related relationship until in 1984 it was changed over into a helpful possessed generally by banks, merchants, different organizations, and affiliations. On April 1, 1990, exchanging was moved to another advanced framework: HETI (Helsinki Stock Exchange Automated Trading and Information System, and in Finnish an unpleasant acronym for "promptly"), which supplanted the electro-mechanical exchanging board initially presented in 1935. HETI empowered remote merchants to lead exchanges on the level with terms with those in the exchanging room. OMX Helsinki 25 (OMXH25) is a securities exchange list for the Helsinki Stock Exchange. It is a market esteem weighted record that comprises of the 25 most-exchanged stock classes. OMXH25 is additionally known by its old name, HEX25. As of March 2006, there is two trade exchanged assets recorded, both are list reserves for the OMXH25 file. In April 2006, the Stock Exchange declared the exchanging will be done in round part sizes of one offer beginning from September 25, 2006. Already exchanging was done in round part sizes that differed from recorded organization to organization.

  • Add up to showcase capitalization: 191266 EUR Million

  • Website:http://www.nasdaqomxnordic.com

  • Total listed companies: 137

The mid-1990s retreat in Finland was one of the most noticeably awful monetary emergencies in Finland's history, surprisingly more terrible there than the gloom of the 1930s. The discouragement of 1991-1993 deeply affected the economy of Finland all through the 1990s, particularly as far as work yet in addition to culture, governmental issues and the general sociopolitical environment. Amid this period the gross national item diminished 13% and the joblessness rose to 18.9% from 3.5%. From that point forward, regardless of general recuperation, the joblessness has been determined, and Finland has stayed away forever to the condition of close full work that existed before the emergency. 

Finland encountered a solid monetary blast all through the 1980s, which delayed and "overheated" the economy, prompting the restorative constriction of the wretchedness. One explanation behind this was an adjustment in Finnish keeping money laws in 1986, which enabled Finnish organizations to all the more effectively look for credit from remote banks, which was significantly more affordable than Finnish household credit. This prompted a substantial scale look for outside advance sources, which undermined the quality of the Finnish national bank. Also, control of buyer credit was definitely casual, and the shopper advance portfolio expanded significantly, now and again by over 100% every year. These components prompted the solid here and now development which thusly raised business and private property estimations, and expanded the measure of cash in the national economy in an unsustainable way. Stock and land bubbles made a domain in which substantial here and now benefits were posted, prompting a falsely expanded appearance of awesome riches in the economy. The expression " clubhouse economy" was utilized to depict utilizing advances to get exceptionally rich rapidly on paper through abusing these air pockets. 

The huge debasement that was made in November 1991 expanded the obligations of Finnish organizations holding remote credits. The advances that were taken in remote monetary standards did not legitimately scale with the debasement which the Kouri– Porter model had appeared as right on time as in 1974. This model was not followed in Finland regarding the liberating of currency showcase. Be that as it may, the quantity of the outside money credits was just 15% of the entire advance stock. Besides, political choices in light of the quality of the Finnish check (among different choices) debilitated the global aggressiveness of Finnish industry. The paper business specifically, on which a significant part of the Finnish economy was dependent, likewise experienced overall overproduction amid this time. 

Utilization and speculation fell in both open and private division as an outcome of the sadness. The quantity of the insolvencies of organizations climbed unequivocally, and these liquidations in a blend with the frail financial circumstance caused mass joblessness. Joblessness amid the years 1992– 1997 was reliably more than 12 for each penny and went as high as 36.7% in development industry amid the year 1994. Littler banks wound up consumed by huge ones, because of trouble keeping up gainfulness because of unsafe credits made to organizations which thus went bankrupt, bringing about an across the country bank emergency. The spending shortfall of the province of Finland was a few percents of the GNP. Besides, Finland's sovereign FICO assessment was downsized.

Famous People

Erkki Tuomioja

(Politician)

Elias Lonnrot

(Philologist, Scientist, Botanist)

Johan Gadolin

(Chemist, Geologist)

Ragnar Granit

(Scientist, Physician)

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The Finnish markka was the money of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002, when it stopped to be legitimate delicate. The markka was supplanted by the euro (€), which had been presented, in real money frame, on 1 January 2002, after a transitional time of three years when the euro was the official cash yet just existed as 'book cash'. The double dissemination time frame – when both the Finnish markka and the euro had lawful delicate status – finished on 28 February 2002.

The markka was presented in 1860 by the Bank of Finland, supplanting the Russian ruble at a rate of four markkas equivalent to one ruble. In 1865 the markka was isolated from the Russian ruble and fixing to the estimation of silver. Up to World War 1, the estimation of markka varied inside +23%/ - 16% of its underlying worth, yet with no pattern. Nonetheless, the markka endured overwhelming expansion (91%) amid 1914-18. After Finland picked up freedom in 1917 the cash was supported by gold. Costs stayed stable until 1940. The best quality level was abrogated in 1940, and the markka endured overwhelming expansion (17% every year by and large) amid the war years and after that up to 1951, and again in 1956-57 (11%). In 1963 the markka was supplanted by the new markka, proportional to 100 old units. The money related approach called "solid markka arrangement" was a trademark highlight of the 1980s and mid-1990s. The fundamental planner of this arrangement was President Mauno Koivisto, who contradicted drifting the money and debasements. Accordingly, the ostensible estimation of markka was to a great degree high and in the year 1990, Finland was ostensibly the most costly nation on the planet.

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The swelling was low amid markka's free presence as a drifting money (1992-1999): 1.3% every year by and large. The Finnish markka was included into the ERM framework in 1996 and afterward turned into a small amount of the euro in 1999, physical euro cash arriving later in 2002. It has been theorized that if Finland had not joined the euro, advertise changes, for example, the website air pocket would have reflected as wild variances in the cost of markka.

At the point when the markka was presented, coins were printed in copper (1, 5 and 10 pennies), silver (25 and 50 pennies, 1 and 2 markka) and gold (10 and 20 markkas). After the First World War, silver and gold issues were stopped and cupro-nickel 25 and 50 pennies and 1 markka coins were presented in 1921, trailed by aluminum-bronze 5, 10 and 20 markkas in the vicinity of 1928 and 1931. Amid the Second World War, copper supplanted cupro-nickel in the 25 and 50 pennies and 1 markka, trailed by an issue of iron 10, 25 and 50 pennies and 1 markka. This period likewise observed the issue of holed 5 and 10 pennies coins.

On this last banknote arrangement, Bank of Finland utilized a photo of Väinö Linna on the 20 markka note without consent from copyright holders. This was just uncovered after a few million notes were being used. The Bank paid 100,000 km (€17,000) pay to rights holders. The second-to-last banknote outline arrangement, planned by Tapio Wirkkala, was presented in 1955 and reexamined in the change of 1963. It was the primary arrangement to delineate genuine particular people. These included Juho Kusti Paasikivi on the 10 markka note, K. J. Stahlberg on the 50 markkas, J. V. Snell man on the 100 markkas and Urho Kekkonen on the 500 markka note (presented later). Not at all like Erik Bruun's arrangement, this arrangement did not portray some other genuine subjects, but rather just unique adornments notwithstanding the individual portrayals. A prominent joke at the time was to cover Paasikivi's face aside from his ear and back of the head on the 10 markka note, winding up with something taking after a mouse, said to be the main creature outline in the whole arrangement. The still-more seasoned notes, outlined by Eliel Saarinen, were presented in 1922. They likewise portrayed individuals, however, these were nonexclusive men and ladies, and did not speak to a particular people. The way that these men and ladies were portrayed bare caused a minor contention at the time. Coins and banknotes that were legitimate delicate at the season of the markka's retirement could be traded for euros until February 29, 2012.

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Statistics

National Song"Maamme"
CurrencyEuro (EUR)
LanguagesFinnish,Swedish
Population5.487 Millions
GDP / GDP Rank231.37 Billion USD
GDP Growth Rate0.4 Percent
GDP Per Captial$42164.604 (PPP)
Size338,424 km²
Inflation0.389 Percent
Time Zone

UTC+02:00 (EET)

Interest Rate0.00%
Religion

80.1% Christians

< 1.0% Muslims

< 1.0% Hindus

< 1.0% Buddhists

< 1.0% Jews

< 1.0% Other Religions

Ethnic Group

Finn 93.4%

Swede 5.6%

Russian 0.5%

Estonian 0.3%

Government

Republic

President – Sauli Niinistö

Prime Minister – Juha Sipilä

WebsiteGo to the web
Driving SideRIGHT
Public Debt63.558 Percent
Import$62.1 Billion
Export$59.6 Billion
Unemployment Rate8.997 Percent
Labor Force2685000
Labor Force (Occupation)-
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