List of Figures Figure 1.0: Travel to Lapland, by Aukusti Tuhka Figure 1.1: A Finland-Centred Map Figure 1.2: The Climate of Finland, 1971-2000 Figure 1.3: The ancient bedrock of Finland Figure 2.0: Suomi Finland Viiputi, museum of Etelä-Karjala Figure 2.1: GDP per capita 1600-1850 (US$) Figure 2.2: The lakes, rivers and towns of Finland Figure 2.3: Finland’s changing border and capital cities Figure 3.0: The Industry of Helsinki, by Erik Brunn Figure 3.1: Average GDP/capita growth 2016-2018 (%), high income European countries Figure 3.3: At risk of poverty or social exclusion rate, 2017 (EU countries at that time) Figure 4.0: School Breakfast in 1949 or 1950, by Hugo Sundström Figure 4.1: Social and educational mobility versus income inequality, 2009 Figure 4.2: State and private school spending, OECD countries, 2016 Figure 4.3: Between and within school variation, OECD countries, 2009 Figure 5.0: The Wealth Parade, by Ella Furness Figure 5.1: Social mobility and income inequality, 2009 Figure 5.2: Job Flexibility by educational attainment 2012-2015, OECD countries Figure 5.3: The paradox of high gender equality and low STEM uptake by women Figure 5.4: The tax structure of Finland as compared to the OECD average Figure 5.5: The income share of the different groups in Finland 1980-2016 Figure 6.0: The world’s first female Members of Parliament in 1907 Figure 6.1: How health and social problems are related to inequality in rich countries Figure 6.2: Public Expenditure as % of GDP, six countries, 2001–2022 (projected) Figure 6.3: Foreign Citizens in Finland, 1870-2015 Figure 6.4: Life expectancy in Ireland, the UK, Norway and Finland, 1993-2017 Figure 7.0: The leaders of Finland’s five coalition parties in power in December 2019 Figure 7.1: The take of the 1% in 1983 and electoral turnout in 2016 to 2019 Figure 7.2: Voting in Finland – party candidates in political space, 2019 Figure 7.3: The political map of Finland – electoral cartograms of the 2019 election Figure 8.0: Visit Finnish Lapland and its capital Rovaniemi, by Toivo Fahlenius Figure 8.1: Birth and death rates in Finland, 1749-2017 Figure 8.2: Total fertility rate in Finland, 1900-2018 Figure 8.3: Births, deaths and net migration, Finland, 1990-2040 (people per year) Figure 8.4: Contributions to total population change, Finland, 1945-2017 (people/year) Figure 8.5: Number of immigrants to Finland by nationality, 1990-2017 Figure 9.0: Moomintroll overlooking a melting river during the winter, by Tove Jansson Figure 9.1: Proportion of adults by mental health, 2012-2016 Figure 9.2: Trust in Journalism, 2015-2016, leading countries Figure 9.3: The happiest countries in the world, and selected others, 2016-2018 Figure 9.4: The take of the 1% in the USA, UK, Sweden and Finland, 1910-2019 List of Tables Table 3.1: The twenty ‘most developed’ states in the world in 2004-2019 – HDI Table 3.2 Proportion of GDP spent on public services 2002, 2012, and projected in 2022 Table 5.1: People who said they were happy most of the time in Europe, 2018 Table 6.1: Social statistics concerning old age and poverty in Finland, the UK and the US Table 7.1: Results of the 2019 generation election in Finland by party – votes and seats Table 7.2: Key issues in Finland which helped determine party choice in 2019 Table 9.1: The ten most politically stable countries in the world in 2019, stability measures .