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TOWARDS CLIMATE NEUTRAL REGION Emissions per inhabitant - 3,9 tons CO₂e Change 2007–2020 –38 % REGION IN FIGURES 2021 A GROWING REGION , , Hanko, Helsinki, Hyvinkää, , Järvenpää, , , , , Lapinjärvi, , , Myrskylä, Mäntsälä, Nurmijärvi, , ,

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Fresh water 471 km2, 3% Land area 9,097 km2, 57 %

Salt water 6,491 km2, 40 % A GROWING REGION DRIVING FORCE OF ’S ECONOMY 1.7 million inhabitants 39 % of the Finnish GDP 31 % of the entire population of Finland

Population growth about 13,000 inhabitants in 2020

By 2040 a population growth of 200,000 inhabitants in Helsinki-Uusimaa Region*

*, population forecast A GROWING REGION DRIVING FORCE OF FINLAND’S ECONOMY

39 % of the Finnish GDP Industries Services Processing Primary production eg. trade, health and social eg. , eg. agriculture, forestry industry, education, ICT construction and mining and fishing about 13,000 inhabitants in 2020 82.6 % 16.8 % 0.6 %

50 % of R&D expenses in Finland

DRIVING FORCE OF FINLAND’S ECONOMY Helsinki-Uusimaa Region has 827,000 workplaces i.e. one third of the Finnish total

Private sector 64 % Work- Public sector 28 % places: Entrepreneurs 8 %

Employment rate for 15–64 year olds 74.1 %, Average rate for Finland 71.6 % Unemployment rate 7.2 % * Average rate for Finland 7.8 %

* Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey, annual average 2020 Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council 6/2021 Information from 2019–2020, Source: Statistics Finland 7,7 %speakSwedish Uusimaa Region in FinlandliveHelsinki- speaking anotherlanguage 58 % another language The mostcommonly spoken 14,7 %speak A MULTILINGUAL REGION In Helsinki-UusimaaRegion of those foreign languagesare Russian speak Finnish 77,6 % Somali Estonian Arabic TOWARDS CLIMATE NEUTRALREGION A MULTILINGUAL REGION TOWARDS CLIMATE NEUTRAL REGION

Emissions per inhabitant 3,9 tons CO₂e Change 2007–2020 –38 %

Distribution of greenhouse gas emissions

Waste treatment 3,7 % Industry 0,8 % Agriculture 3,8 % F-gases 4,5 % Machinery 5,6 % District heating 26,7 %

Electricity 11,4 %

Rail transport 0,3 % Oil heating 4 % Water transport 1,5 % Electric heating 3,5 % Other heating 3,7 % Road transport 30,5 % Source: Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, preliminary data for 2020. for SYKE, preliminary data Source: Finnish Environment Institute A MULTILINGUAL REGION 2020, Source: Statistics Finland FINLAND –

HELSINKI-UUSIMAA REGION

Helsinki from 2019 Information

North Sea

IRELAND UNITED The Helsinki-Uusimaa RegionalRUSSIA Council is a regional KINGDOM developer, creating conditions for wellbeing, economic BELARUS developmentGERMANY and a safe, as well as an attractive physical environment for its citizens. The Regional CouncilCZECH is also a strategic planner,UKRAINE a land use plannerREPUBLIC and a coordinator. www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/en SWITZERLAND

HUNGARY MOLDOVA Council 6/2021 Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional SLOVENIA CROATIA ANDORRA MONACO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA SERBIA BULGARIA MONTENEGRO MACEDONIA

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