Marriages contracted by Nationality of wife/younger spouse, Year, Nationality of husband/older spouse, Type of marriage and Information

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Marriages contracted by Year, Nationality of wife/younger spouse, Information, Nationality of husband/older spouse and Type of marriage
	Marriages
	TOTAL			Finland			FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL
	Total	Opposite-sex couples	Same-sex couples	Total	Opposite-sex couples	Same-sex couples	Total	Opposite-sex couples	Same-sex couples
2024
TOTAL	21,420	20,995	425	18,426	18,049	377	2,994	2,946	48
Finland	18,253	17,901	352	16,892	16,569	323	1,361	1,332	29
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL	3,167	3,094	73	1,534	1,480	54	1,633	1,614	19

Footnotes

Documentation of statistics The concepts of marriages and divorces have changed in 2017, see the Quality description.

Nationality of wife/younger spouse

Countries (ISO 3166).
The used classification of continents is the classification of Eurostat, where Cyprus and Turkey belong to Europe.
In the classification of continents, Europe does not include the figures for Finland.
Non-autonomous states are combined with the mother country.
Czech Republic = Czech Republic + Former Czechoslovakia
Sudan = Sudan + Former Sudan
If a person has two nationalities and one of them is Finnish, he/she will be included in statistics as a Finnish national.
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HDI = Human Development Index
Ranking according to the HDI index by country:
The former Soviet Union is included in the Russia HDI category
The former Czechoslovakia is included in the Czech Republic HDI category
The former Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro are included in the Serbia HDI category

Nationality of husband/older spouse

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Marriages

Marriages where at least one of the spouses has resided permanently in Finland on the day the marriage was contracted. Includes also marriages of same-sex couples starting from 2017.

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Marriages contracted by Nationality of wife/younger spouse, Year, Nationality of husband/older spouse, Type of marriage and Information

Nationality of wife/younger spouse

Nationality of husband/older spouse

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