About 12.7 per cent of all persons aged 16 or over belonging to the household population were persons with disabilities in Finland in 2025, according to Statistics Finland.
The total number of persons with disabilities of was around 591,000.
The share of persons with disabilities, that is, people who had experienced severe activity limitations, was roughly the same as in the previous survey in 2022.
The limitations experienced by elderly people decreased, while those experienced by people under the age of 50 became more common.
Activity limitations became slightly more common among people under the age of 50 and decreased among elderly people in 2025 compared with 2022.
Among younger people, severe activity limitations are particularly related to remembering or concentrating, while among the elderly they are mainly related to walking or climbing steps.
Young people with activity limitations assess their health as being good more often than elderly people.
However, the risk of poverty or social exclusion experienced by young people with activity limitations has increased clearly.
Activity limitations are measured with an indicator consisting of six basic activities: seeing, hearing, walking and climbing steps, remembering and concentrating, self-care and communicating in one's own native language.
When a person experiences a lot of difficulties in any of the six basic activities or cannot do the activity at all, that is, the person experiences severe limitations, the person is considered to have disability.
- People
- Disabilities
- Finland
Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
