Enterprises
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- Enterprises by industry
- Enterprises by size class in personnel
- Enterprise openings and closures by industry
- Bankruptcy petitions
- Establishments of industrial enterprises
- Volume index of industrial output
- Volume index of sales in trade
- Turnover of trade
- Imports, exports and trade balance
- Biggest import and export countries
- Imports and exports by product category
Enterprises by industry, 2021
The group of statistical units in the structural business and financial statement statistics will be expanded starting from the statistical reference year 2021. Limitations concerning the operating time and size of enterprises have been removed from the definition of statistical units.
Industry TOL 2008 | Enterprises | Personnel, staff-years |
Turnover | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Number | % | Thousand | € million | |
Total | 562 175 | 100 | 1 403 | 488 748 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 131 321 | 23,4 | 40 | 3 009 |
Mining and quarrying | 1 157 | 0,2 | 6 | 2 421 |
Manufacturing | 28 242 | 5,0 | 297 | 144 388 |
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 1 327 | 0,2 | 13 | 18 235 |
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | 2 398 | 0,4 | 11 | 3 824 |
Construction | 54 512 | 9,7 | 154 | 43 197 |
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 55 550 | 9,9 | 216 | 128 515 |
Transportation and storage | 23 343 | 4,2 | 102 | 20 918 |
Accommodation and food service activities | 15 751 | 2,8 | 45 | 5 699 |
Information and communication | 20 270 | 3,6 | 95 | 25 482 |
Financial and insurance activities | 14 721 | 2,6 | 42 | 33 211 |
Real estate activities | 42 202 | 7,5 | 19 | 13 331 |
Professional, scientific and technical activities | 66 109 | 11,8 | 107 | 18 093 |
Administrative and support service activities | 23 107 | 4,1 | 124 | 12 808 |
Education | 8 864 | 1,6 | 7 | 821 |
Human health and social work activities | 25 167 | 4,5 | 94 | 9 857 |
Arts, entertainment and recreation | 17 350 | 3,1 | 13 | 3 088 |
Other service activities | 30 572 | 5,4 | 19 | 1 851 |
Unknown | 212 | 0,0 | 0 | 2 |
Source: Statistics Finland, structural business and financial statement statistics
Updated: 6.3.2023
Enterprises by size class in personnel, 2021
The group of statistical units in the structural business and financial statement statistics will be expanded starting from the statistical reference year 2021. Limitations concerning the operating time and size of enterprises have been removed from the definition of statistical units.
Size category of personnel |
Enterprises | Personnel , staff-years |
Turnover | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Persons | Number | % | Thousand | % | € million | % |
Total | 562 175 | 100 | 1 403 | 100 | 488 748 | 100 |
0–4 | 526 027 | 93,6 | 201 | 14,3 | 63 871 | 13,1 |
5–9 | 16 937 | 3,0 | 109 | 7,8 | 26 800 | 5,5 |
10–19 | 9 654 | 1,7 | 129 | 9,2 | 34 242 | 7,0 |
20–49 | 6 003 | 1,1 | 179 | 12,8 | 50 031 | 10,2 |
50–99 | 1 965 | 0,3 | 135 | 9,6 | 45 555 | 9,3 |
100–249 | 953 | 0,2 | 144 | 10,2 | 53 162 | 10,9 |
250–499 | 348 | 0,1 | 118 | 8,4 | 42 804 | 8,8 |
500–999 | 171 | 0,0 | 120 | 8,6 | 41 779 | 8,5 |
1 000– | 117 | 0,0 | 268 | 19,1 | 130 503 | 26,7 |
Corrected on 24 April 2023.
Source: Statistics Finland, structural business and financial statement statistics
Updated: 6.3.2023
Enterprise openings and closures by industry, 2022
Industry TOL 2008

Source: Statistics Finland, enterprise openings and closures
Updated: 8.5.2023
Bankruptcy petitions
Source: Statistics Finland, bankruptcies and business restructuring proceedings
Updated: 19.6.2023
Establishments of industrial enterprises, 2021
The group of statistical units in the structural business and financial statement statistics will be expanded starting from the statistical reference year 2021. Limitations concerning the operating time and size of enterprises have been removed from the definition of statistical units.
Industry TOL 2008 | Establishments of enterprises | Personnel 1) | Value added of production | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Staff-years | € million | % | |
Whole industry | 37 058 | 319 473 | 40 965 | 100 |
B Mining and quarrying | 1 285 | 6 106 | 1 052 | 2,6 |
C Manufacturing | 30 970 | 290 726 | 33 474 | 81,7 |
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 1 991 | 12 211 | 4 870 | 11,9 |
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activites | 2 812 | 10 431 | 1 569 | 3,8 |
1) Wage and salary earners and entrepreneurs
Source: Statistics Finland, regional statistics on entrepreneurial activity
Updated: 31.3.2023
Volume index of industrial output
2015 = 100
Industry TOL 2008

* preliminary data
Source: Statistics Finland, volume index of industrial output
Updated: 21.2.2023
Volume index of sales in trade 2015 = 100
Industry TOL 2008

Turnover of trade
Industry TOL 2008
Year | Wholesale trade 1) | Retail trade 1) | Sale of cars 2) | Total | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
€ million | % | € million | % | € million | % | € million | % | |
2018 | 63 111 | 53,0 | 38 099 | 32,0 | 17 966 | 15,1 | 119 176 | 100 |
2019 | 60 821 | 51,4 | 39 137 | 33,1 | 18 293 | 15,5 | 118 252 | 100 |
2020 | 60 740 | 51,2 | 39 929 | 33,6 | 18 072 | 15,2 | 118 741 | 100 |
2021 | 65 800 | 51,2 | 42 446 | 33,0 | 20 269 | 15,8 | 128 515 | 100 |
– Line across a time series shows substantial breaks in the homogeneity of a series
1) Excl. motor vehicles and motorcycles
2) Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Source: Statistics Finland, structural business and financial statement statistics
Updated: 6.3.2023
Imports, exports and trade balance

Biggest import and export countries, 2022
Imports by country of origin | € million | % |
---|---|---|
Germany | 11 926 | 12,9 |
Sweden | 11 639 | 12,6 |
China | 8 466 | 9,2 |
Norway | 6 399 | 6,9 |
Russia | 6 181 | 6,7 |
Netherlands | 4 940 | 5,3 |
United States | 4 177 | 4,5 |
Estonia | 3 507 | 3,8 |
Poland | 3 014 | 3,3 |
Italy | 2 366 | 2,6 |
Other countries | 29 853 | 32,2 |
Total | 92 469 | 100 |
Exports by country of destination | € million | % |
Germany | 9 520 | 11,6 |
Sweden | 8 879 | 10,8 |
United States | 7 782 | 9,5 |
Netherlands | 6 031 | 7,4 |
China | 4 039 | 4,9 |
Estonia | 3 560 | 4,3 |
Great Britain | 2 930 | 3,6 |
Belgium | 2 873 | 3,5 |
France | 2 528 | 3,1 |
Poland | 2 504 | 3,1 |
Other countries | 31 239 | 38,2 |
Total | 81 885 | 100 |
Imports and exports by product category, 2022
Product category CPA 2015
Imports | € million | % |
---|---|---|
Chemical industry products | 18 236 | 19,7 |
Products from mining and quarrying | 13 130 | 14,2 |
Electric and electronics industry products | 12 658 | 13,7 |
Metal and metal products | 10 378 | 11,2 |
Transport equipment | 8 562 | 9,3 |
Other | 29 506 | 31,9 |
Total | 92 469 | 100 |
Exports | € million | % |
Chemical industry products | 17 718 | 21,6 |
Forest industry products | 14 546 | 17,8 |
Metal and metal products | 14 495 | 17,7 |
Machinery and equipment | 10 158 | 12,4 |
Electric and electronics industry products | 9 583 | 11,7 |
Other | 15 384 | 18,8 |
Total | 81 885 | 100 |
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Last updated 12 Sep 2023