Income and wealth percentile in Finland
a year per adult, before tax; half of adults in Finland earn less
The wealth ladder in Finland
The middle adult in Finland holds €87,579 in net worth. The top 10% of holders begins at €381,722 and the top 1% at €1,216,048, which is 14 times the middle.
In Finland the middle adult earns €41,137 a year before tax and holds €87,579 in net worth. The top 10% of earners begins at €90,565, and the top 1% of wealth at €1,216,048. Figures are per adult, in EUR.
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Income and net worth per adult in Finland, in EUR.
| The line | Income | Net worth |
|---|---|---|
| Median | €41,137 | €87,579 |
| Average | €52,130 | €169,411 |
| Top 10% | €90,565 | €381,722 |
| Top 1% | €209,884 | €1,216,048 |
| Top 0.1% | €585,447 | €3,512,107 |
| Top 0.01% | €1,527,597 | €10,143,434 |
What the numbers say about Finland
Finnish median income is around €41,100 per adult, with an average of €52,100. Those numbers sit slightly below Sweden and clearly below Norway and Denmark. Finland has not had the resource windfall of its Scandinavian neighbours and has had to build its income base on industrial exports and a relatively small services sector. Wages have grown more slowly than in Sweden over the past decade, partly because of weaker productivity growth and the long shadow of the post-Nokia adjustment.
The Nokia collapse remains the structural fact of recent Finnish economic history. At its 2007 peak, Nokia accounted for around 4 percent of Finnish GDP and a much higher share of corporate R&D and high-end engineering employment. The smartphone transition wiped that out within five years, and Finland did not produce a comparable replacement. The successor ecosystem, including Supercell in mobile gaming, Wolt in food delivery before its 2022 sale to DoorDash, and a thinner stack of B2B software firms, has only partially refilled the gap. Finnish productivity growth has been notably weaker than Swedish productivity growth ever since.
Wealth runs lower than in any other Nordic country. Median household net worth per adult is around €88,000, well below Denmark or Sweden. Homeownership runs around 64 percent, but property prices outside the Helsinki metropolitan area have stagnated for a decade. Inheritance and gift taxes remain in place, which compresses intergenerational wealth transfer relative to Sweden, which abolished both. The top 1% threshold for wealth sits at €1.2 million, modest by Western European standards.
Helsinki concentrates the top end of the income distribution, holding most corporate headquarters, finance, and remaining technology employment. Espoo, immediately west of Helsinki, hosts what remains of the Nokia legacy at the Aalto University corridor. Tampere has a meaningful industrial-services cluster. Outside the capital region, median wages run lower, and the population is ageing. Eastern Finland, particularly North Karelia and Kainuu, faces depopulation patterns similar to rural Spain or Italy.
Two themes shape the next decade. NATO membership in 2023 has reshaped the security and trade picture, with Russia no longer a viable export market. And the demographic squeeze, with one of Europe's lowest fertility rates and an ageing population, will tighten the labour supply unless immigration policy expands materially.
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Method and sources
- World Inequality DatabasePretax national income per adult and net household wealth per adult.
- World Bank Informal Economy DatabaseInformal output as a share of GDP, the input to the level correction.
How the lines are worked out
The national distribution is fitted as a log-normal body with a Pareto top tail and read at each published point, per adult. Where a country’s own records measure less activity than its output implies, the level of the distribution is lifted toward the implied figure and the spread is left as published: that correction is set out in full on how we measure.
How a percentile is read off it
A percentile is the share of adults at or below a figure. The percentile methodology page states the fit, the anchors and the vintage.
What these figures do not cover
- Per adult, not per household. Couples are counted separately, so household figures run higher.
- Income is gross, before income tax and employee contributions.
- Local currency at the reference rate carried with the record, €1 = $1.08.
- A national figure says nothing about a region or an occupation inside it.
Last updated July 2026.
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