Economic Country Review
3% (2007)
Religions: Lutheran Church of Finland 82.5%, Orthodox Church 1.1%, other Christian 1.1%, other
0.1%, none 15.1% (2006)
Population: 5,262,930 (July 2012 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.41 years male: 75.94 years, female: 83.02 years
(2012 est.)
Health expenditures: 11.7% of GDP (2009)
Education expenditures: 5.9% of GDP (2007)
(Central Intelligence Agency, 2012, ISSN 15538133).
2.1.4 Economic Overview
Finland has a highly industrialized; largely freemarket economy with per capita output roughly
that of Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Trade is important with exports
accounting for over one third of GDP in recent years. Finland is strongly competitive in
manufacturing principally the wood, metals, engineering, telecommunications, and electronics
industries. Finland excels in hightech exports such as mobile phones. Except for timber and
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