ABSTRACT

Finland has 5,351,427 inhabitants (2009), of which 888,323 (16.6 percent) are under the age of 14.1 The religious commitments of the Finnish people are as shown in Table 14.1.

There are 22 different Islamic communities in Finland and they have an estimated 30,000 followers of Islam. Jehovah’s Witnesses have 19,200 members, while the number of Mormons in Finland is 3,300. The Jewish community has 1,200 members. In addition, some 13 percent of the Finnish population (N = 700,000) are not affiliated with any religious group.2