Country Reports

Finland

Highlights

  1. Approximately 94% of the population is an Internet user.
  2. Internet Society gives Finland an overall Internet resilience score of 67%, which means it has high capacity to withstand unexpected faults or challenges to normal operation.
  3. In Finland, there are 34 data centers and there are 13 active IXPs.
  4. Out of the 1000 most-visited websites, 78% can be reached on a local server or cache in Finland. This exceeds Internet Society's target of 50%.
  5. As of 2023, the population of Finland was 5,583,911.

Internet Usage Permanent link

Internet penetration

94%

of the population used the Internet at least once over a 3-month period

89%
Europe average

Usage by gender

Proportion of the population that uses the Internet, by gender

  • Female: 93%
  • Male: 94%

Note: Measurement methods vary by country.

Average download speed

Based on an average of 300 users

  • 108.58 Mbps

    Broadband

  • 99.84 Mbps

    Mobile

Average Internet cost

0.56%

of average income (GNI) is needed to cover a low-consumption basket, using at least 3G technology.

Network Infrastructure Permanent link

Broadband coverage

Broadband connections per 100 inhabitants

35.49

Mobile 4G and 5G coverage

100%

has access to at least one device with 4G mobile Internet

94%

has access to at least one device with 5G mobile Internet

Active networks

The building blocks of the Internet, identified by Autonomous System (AS) numbers.

290

active networks

International connections

Routes to the global Internet

Upstream diversity is

Fair

More than 2 connections to the global Internet improves the ability to recover from unexpected events.

Adoption of IPv6

41%

of users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol

24%
Europe average

Market Overview Permanent link

Data centers

Number of data centers in operation

34

active data centers

Internet Exchange Points

13

IXPs in Finland

9
Europe average
10% of 374

active networks connect via an IXP

Total number of IXP members in Finland

Locally cached content

78%

of the top 1000 websites in Finland can be accessed through an in-country server or cache

58%
Europe average

Top Internet service providers

Top Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by market share

  • ELISA-AS Helsinki, Finland: 34%
  • DNA: 30%
  • TSF-IP-CORE Telia Finland Oyj: 22%
  • HETZNER-AS: 3%
  • FICOLO: 2%

Digital public services rating

The UN's measure of a country's e-government ecosystem readiness

98%

Country-level domain use

545,996

domains registered using .fi, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD).

Market competition

Fair

market competitiveness for Internet customers and end users

Security Permanent link

Global Cybersecurity Index

Estimates the ability of a country or economy to prevent and manage cyber incidents

96 / 100

Routing security practices

The use of resource public key infrastructure (RPKI), which connects IP prefixes to the correct autonomous system (AS)

ROA

Route origin authorization uses a cryptographic signature to certify network announcements

  • 81%
    of IPv4 prefixes protected
  • 81%
    of IPv6 prefixes protected

ROV

Route origin validation filters out route announcements

  • 75%
    of networks are using ROV to filter out invalid prefixes and networks

DNSSEC status

  • Active

DNSSEC coverage

5%

of all domains under the ccTLD are protected with DNSSEC

15%
Europe average

Adoption of DNSSEC

96%

of DNS queries are protected by DNSSEC, across all web traffic

49%
Europe average

Footnotes Permanent link

The geographic boundaries and country names shown do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Internet Society concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities. Regions and Sub-Regions are taken from the UN Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49).

Pulse uses the most recent possible data from international sources. For some indicators in Pulse, the source data may be updated more frequently. For more information on how often we update individual data points, see the Indicator page.