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*In 2018, 387,215 people in Finland were born in another country, representing 7% of the population. The 10 largest foreign born groups are (in order) from '''Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Iraq, Somalia, China, Thailand, Serbia, Vietnam and Turkey'''. | *In 2018, 387,215 people in Finland were born in another country, representing 7% of the population. The 10 largest foreign born groups are (in order) from '''Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Iraq, Somalia, China, Thailand, Serbia, Vietnam and Turkey'''. | ||
*As of 2019, there were 423,494 people with a foreign background living in Finland (7.7% of the population), most of whom are from the former '''Soviet Union, Estonia, Somalia, Iraq and former Yugoslavia'''.<ref>"Finland: Demographics", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Demographics, accessed 27 April 2021.</ref> | *As of 2019, there were 423,494 people with a foreign background living in Finland (7.7% of the population), most of whom are from the former '''Soviet Union, Estonia, Somalia, Iraq and former Yugoslavia'''.<ref>"Finland: Demographics", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Demographics, accessed 27 April 2021.</ref> | ||
====Russian Finns==== | |||
*Russians in Finland or Russian Finns constitute a linguistic and ethnic minority in Finland. About 30,000 people have citizenship of the Russian Federation, and Russian is the mother language of about 70,000 people in Finland, which represents about 1.3% of the population. | |||
*The first migratory wave of Russians began in the early 18th century, when Finland was part of the Swedish Empire. About 40,000 Russian soldiers, civilian workers, and about 600 businessmen moved to the Grand Duchy of Finland, which became part of the Russian Empire in 1809. When Finland became independent in 1917, many soldiers returned to Russia. Many businessmen stayed. | |||
*During the '''Russian Revolution''' many '''aristocrats and officers''' fled to Finland as refugees. The biggest refugee wave was in 1922 when about 33,500 people came to Finland. | |||
*During the Kronstadt Rebellion, about 1,600 officers fled to Finland. | |||
*Russian citizens who moved in these three waves are called "Old Russians", whose 3,000–5,000 descendants live in Finland today. | |||
*During World War II, there were about 69,700 Soviet '''prisoners of war''' in Finland, and 200–300 children were born to them and Finnish women. | |||
*A second major wave of immigration occurred after the '''fall of the Soviet Union'''. Many '''Russian guest workers''' came to Finland, working low-paying jobs. | |||
*In the 1990s, immigration to Finland grew, and a Russian-speaking population descended from Ingrian Finns immigrated to Finland. | |||
*In the 2000s, many '''nouveaux riches Russians''' have bought estates in '''Eastern Finland'''. | |||
=== Finnish Passport Lists === | === Finnish Passport Lists === | ||