Population of Finland 1750-2020, by gender

This statistic shows the population of Finland from 1750 until 2020, by gender. The figures begin in 1750, when Finland was part of the Duchy of Sweden, and the total population was just 201 thousand men and 221 thousand women. The number of men and women grew at a similar rate throughout Finland's history, although the gap widens noticeably in the 1940s as a result of the Second World War. By the 1950s the number of women exceed that of men by almost 180 thousand, although the gap does then narrow over time, and the difference in 2015 just 76 thousand people.