Share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption in Finland
Finland: Share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption was 0.4% in 2023. ▲ Rising
Share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption in Finland, 1987–2023
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
Finland recorded 0.4% for share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption in 2023. That is the highest value across all 25 years on record.
The figure is up 65.8% on the previous year and up 110.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption in Finland peaked at 0.4% in 2023 and was at its lowest, 0.1%, in 2020.
That places Finland 109th out of 120 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 25 years of available data.
Share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption in Finland, year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 0.2% | — |
| 1991 | 0.2% | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 0.2% | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.2% | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.2% | +21.7% |
| 2004 | 0.2% | -16.1% |
| 2005 | 0.2% | +14.6% |
| 2006 | 0.2% | -0.4% |
| 2007 | 0.1% | -36.9% |
| 2008 | 0.2% | +64.4% |
| 2009 | 0.1% | -39.0% |
| 2010 | 0.2% | +47.1% |
| 2011 | 0.1% | -36.6% |
| 2012 | 0.2% | +48.1% |
| 2013 | 0.2% | +3.8% |
| 2014 | 0.2% | -16.8% |
| 2015 | 0.2% | +27.4% |
| 2016 | 0.2% | -5.0% |
| 2017 | 0.2% | -28.7% |
| 2018 | 0.2% | +40.3% |
| 2019 | 0.2% | -20.2% |
| 2020 | 0.1% | -51.8% |
| 2021 | 0.2% | +91.2% |
| 2022 | 0.3% | +70.8% |
| 2023 | 0.4% | +65.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1 |
| 1990s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 8 |
| 2010s | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 4 |
Countries ranked near Finland
More poverty & inequality data for Finland
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 8 surveys (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per person (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.28 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 3,310 kg per hectare (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, annual growth rate -12.19 % change on previous year (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 42.69 (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 42.7% (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption in Finland?
- Share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption in Finland was 0.4% in 2023, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption recorded in Finland?
- The highest recorded value was 0.4% in 2023.
- What is the lowest share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption recorded in Finland?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1% in 2020.
- How does Finland rank for share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption?
- Finland ranks 109th out of 120 countries with data for 2023.
- Is share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption rising or falling in Finland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 110.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Finland data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Share living on less than $8.30 a day vs. mean income or consumption. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Percentage of population living in households with an income or consumption below $8.30 per day.