Finland's birth rate, long in decline, shows tentative signs of revival.
Some 1,300 more children were born by the end of September than during the same period last year, according to Statistics Finland.
Over the past 12 months, the country's preliminary total fertility rate has edged slightly higher compared with the previous year.
Finland's preliminary total fertility rate of 1.28 exceeds the levels seen in 2023 and 2024, according to Joonas Toivola, a senior actuary at the number crunching agency.
"Yet even with this uptick, the rate is the third-lowest in a 250-year series," he said in a statement on Thursday.
At the same time, migration into Finland is slowing. Preliminary data indicate that more than 38,000 people moved to the country by the end of September, roughly 12,000 fewer than during the same period last year.
