Distillers Finland
A one-page guide to Finland for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Helsinki
- Official languages
- Finnish, Swedish
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 (UTC+3 summer)
- Area
- 338,485 km²
People
- Population
- 5.6 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 0.5% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 74.5%
- Aged under 15
- 14.3%
- Aged 65 and over
- 24.2%
- Life expectancy
- 82.3 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$317.0 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$56,149 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 0.17% (2025)
- Inflation
- 0.33% (2025)
Climate
Humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. Southern winters last about 100 days with nights to about -30 C; southern summers run late May to mid-September. Precipitation falls mostly in winter.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 for 1.2-22% ABV; 20 above 22% ABV
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 9.08 litres of pure alcohol (2020)
- What people drink
- Beer 58%, wine 26%, spirits 16% (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Finland; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; EUCAM: Finland alcohol marketing regulations; The Finnish retail alcohol market is being liberalised (Bird & Bird, 2024); Government proposes allowing home deliveries and online sales (STM); Wikipedia: Anora Group. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.