Weird that the video says here's housing crisis. Only the capital area and some other major cities has maybe but the rest of Finland really doesn't. There's lots of cheap places to live in Finland. You don't need to go further than like 50km away from Helsinki and you can buy a big house with the price of small flat in Helsinki and the rents aren't really comparable either.
Finnish constitution says that government is responsible for the wellbeing of its citizens. A lot of countries do, we just take that responsibility more seriously. And yes, trust is the key.
11:25 Sadly this is really easy one to answer: Corruption, both foreign and domestic Finland is the least corrupted country in the World, so people don't mind paying taxes, since they know it will all come back to them and those in real need in vital services. Also that tax % is extremely misleading, we have a progressive tax system, and that is the maximum tax % you can reach if you are earning a ridiculous amounts of money. The less money you make, the smaller your tax % is, down all the way to a 0% Also unlike what the video claims, Finland doesn't have a housing crisis at all and has no "free protection" from NATO, not sure where they are pulling those conclusions from. Finland has a massive draft based defensive army with over 1.1 million deep standing army+reserve and if anything, Finland is protecting the rest of Europe from a Russian invasion from the North Also, Russia being a huge supplier of energy for Finland? that is the most ridiculous claim ever. Finland was almost fully self-sustained in energy production before the Ukrainian war, and was importing a very small amounts of energy from the Russia, and it took only half a year to reach 100%. I think they are looking at wow, Finland is importing 90% of its gas from Russia, yes, but (unlike UK for example) Finland doesn't really use gas for anything, so while it was 90% of gas, it was only a few percentage of the whole energy cake, which was easily covered by the completion of the World's most modern nuclear power plant that same year
Housing crisis, when it is usually talked about, is a lack of houses and building new non-luxury investment housing. This critical lack of housing is allowing renters and sellers to outprice houses to be almost completely unaffordable to more and more people. This is a problem that Finland doesn't have almost anywhere outside of Helsinki, and frankly, in Helsinki it is as it should be. We should go back to encouraging decentralization away from areas where the old money rich own disproportionate amount of real estate Pretty much everywhere else than Helsinki, Tampere and Rovaniemi (tourism boom) they are either at normal increase rates or even crashing due to decreasing population and the ongoing migration from country to cities Finland has an amazing amount of affordable housing plans (completely inaccessible to the rich) with buy-in options for those, like people on welfare or students, who are not able to engage in the free market real estate investment game in the capital @@hosannayeshua4446
Nice that someone made video about Finland and mentioned that how poor we were back in history. It would be nice that someone would really make a video about our rise from the basically poorest place of the Europe to the one of the richest in few decades. And have to say at those decades we fight 4 different conflicts, hole Lapland was burned town on country of 3,5 million people had to settle over 400000 refugees. And all this without any major recourses. There is no other success story that is possible to compare to this.
Love your style. Love your attitude towards more developed regions than your own. Not any sign of envy or similar useless negative attitudes. U simply seem to be interested to learn how things are how they are. It is sign of intelligence often and lead u to be more and more able to construct your view and awareness of the world to be better rooted to reality. If there are many Brazilian like u two are, your country going to be better. I just admire you guys. I am your new subscriber. This maybe 4. clip that i watch feom your channel. Nothing but respect and love frozen hellhole Finland ❤
Yes, Finland has mosquitoes. Lots and lots of them, and they aren't small either. It depends heavily on the location, in the urban environment there aren't that much standing water where they can lay eggs but in the forest... at times it is simply unbearable. But they aren't the only stingy things, we got blackflys (tiny, can crawl to the inside your clothes), horseflies (big, fast and painful, they bite a piece out of your flesh), deerflies (impossible to kill, also can crawl a LONG way)... In our old family farm, anything you do outside in July you have to be covered head to toe, and it is REALLY awful. At days it is horse and deerflies, at evenings it is mosquitoes and blackflys. It is between a swamp and a larger animal farm and there is quite a lot of game so it has ALL stinging and biting insects in Finland, also yellowjackets and ants.. That is one reason why no one wants to be there and it sits unused.
Bah. You know, you can always protect your skin with either clothing or some repelling sprays - or both - etc., don't you? 😉 And they (the mosquitoes and other little insects) don't kill you, if you're not very, very highly allergic. On the other hand: we have almost none deadly poisonous insects or animals here in Finland (spiders, snakes, frogs, etc.) and that's a huuuge plus! 😉❤️ Only one poisonous snake,which could kill you, at least in theory, and then of course wasps etc. that can sometimes be deadly if you would happen to make a whole swarm of them very angry... 🫣😁
I am a Finn. I live in France, because my husband is French, well for now we stay here. I am liable for taxation partially in both countries. But because I am also ill and not just with tiny challenges about that - I haven't been able to work for years because of that - so as my income for that reason is minimal being retired - my personal taxation percentage in Finland is 0%. Yes, that is possible, if you got enough of a serious situation and clear enough reasons for that - all though idk if some of those of us Finns who would qualify for the change of their taxation rating are aware that it's possible. Anyways, oh and by the way too - I do not get as much financial support from Finland as I would get if I lived there too. So basically my income is really the minimal of what a Finn can have, when in this kind of situation. And yet I pay taxes for what property I got in Finland (case personal taxation isn't same as for that home there, where we stay at in the vacations) while paying taxes for that tiny income here in France, all though it's too small from the French perspective too, for them to take anything notable anyhow. Most of the tings I like better about my native country, but my husband's kid from the previous relationship is still underage, so it's good to have daddy stay near by. Idea is to move into Finland one he becomes of age. Anyhow what I find better here is that medicines are tiny bit cheaper generally speaking. But that's very small difference. And quality of housing simply is, for one, better in Finland. They don't make warm enough houses down here south enough, even the newer buildings still lack on that front. And talking about heating up with wood. My mother does that, but she had some health issues so she could not do that as usually for a month in the winter. And so it required heating the water and such with electricity for that time. The electric bill for the month was over 300€ - then she started to heat again with wood, as the house has furnace for that which is linked to floor heating, water heating and all that, the new electric bill for the month heated with wood was just 90€. In other words - people who think heating with wood is 'backwards' don't seem to know what kind of developments related systems in houses have leaped to, never mind realizing how much that reduces your expenses.
Hello there. We do have mosquitos here, but mostly in rural areas and not so much in urban areas. Also, our mosquitos dont transmit serious deceases such as malaria, dengue fever etc. The most annoying things about mosquitos are the sound and the itch after a mosquito bite. Btw, mosquitoes sting and don't bite. :)
Fun fact about the mosquitoes: There's really not that much more here than anywhere else, but since the summers are so short the whole amount is more concentrated to just a few months, making it feel like there's more.
In general, all of the Nordic countries are the same, we all show up on the top ten lists of happiness, work/life balance, life expectancy etc. There are minor differences, but in principle, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland are like one country. The only difference is that the Finns speaks a completely different language. It could be argued that Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are actually accents of the same language, I don't really agree about that, but the languages are very closely related. Finnish is like IDK, Marsian?
I'm using Linux since the early 90s… well, with quite "some" difficulties back then, and Android (with an independant flavour, not being reliant on google) for years and years now. But, since I'm some kind of a digital nerd, I know how to do things to my own according and to my preferences. ;)
During WW2 there was a saying among the finnish soldiers, "veljeä ei jätetä", roughly meaning no brother left behind. Well, less of a saying and more of a doctrine they firmly followed - some veterans have told that getting injured wasn't that scary because their comrades were always near. They call that TRUST and brotherhood the spirit of the winter war, and people speak about it to this day. Yet another example of TRUST that the finnish people have displayed.
Hello from England UK Great reaction guys Please take a look at the uk we have some amazing architecture and landscapes and a rich history Peace love from England ❤
4:35 Not most, everyone, literally. You're required by law to go to school until you've finished primary school and college or vocational school, 11-13 years in total depending how fast you graduate.
Finland isn't even that rich a country. Finland has been roughly half-way between Russia and United States on GDP per capita metric since at least year 1990 (couldn't find statistics that go longer into past). It just seems that Finland is wasting less resources than many other country. And as a Finn, we still have a lot to improve - we're wasting money left and right all the time into too complex bureaucracy
brazil's gdb in ppp is roughly 12x finlands... and the nominal is ~7.5x. also brazil has a space program, we finns dont, so they win if they get to space. at least by the civ 5 rules.
you can get lost in woods specially in northern finland you can get lost even you follow those service roads that are meant to haul logs out from busch
Brazil is also a rich country, only problem is that the money goes to few pockets. Corruption is the problem, government doesn't take care of the citizens, only themselves and richest people of the country.
yep, a common problem in the world. especially nowaydays with our collective understanding of technology, farming etc, the world could be at ease and peace
I love winter. I love cold weather. I even love the darkness, since I can sleep better 😊 But depression is a real challenge, with the lack of sunlight and vitamin D. But luckily, Finns drink lots of milk, which, in our country, is filled with extra vitamin D. But even with all that, seeing the first sunny, warm day of spring is special, and in my opinion, Finnish summer is the best of all summers. Hearing bugs is such a special thing, when they are away foe 75% of the year 😂 Bzzz bzzz
Finland became the happiest country, yet again in 2024 😮.. So for 7 years in a row now... What are we doing wrong, because we would never admit that we are happy... We are the world champions of melancholia in the world, for sure 😊
Finns have a basic trust in other people, and the police and state officials. That may be in in rare cases misplaced, but helps everyone feel safe. I've never felt unsafe in the dead of the night walking in Helsinki. The major factor in getting fairly economically comfortable was investing in education, even when we for a short time really couldn't afford it and had to borrow money.
Fun fact in Finland you can go get yourself an EU wide travel insurance that covers up to 20000€ in damages or injuries or other mishaps for 79€ that lasts a year.
I'll give you an example. I do not have a job at the moment, but still I go to elections as a candidate and try to get as many votes as possible! The party accepted me as a candidate yesterday. My budget is 0€ only social media and that's it. Let's see how I can manage? Yours Hannu
Energy production data on the video is old (it's from 2021). When Russia did its thing and started being hostile, and made securing energy difficult, Finland reacted immediately. During 2023 energy production in Finland increased by 13%, and the country is self sufficient now. Only 2.2% of energy used in 2023 was imported, and Finland will *always* trade energy with Norway and Sweden, either buying or selling depending on weather. Meanwhile energy consumption in Finland has gone down 8.4% since 2021. Energy sources are seeing a cleaner trend too. During 2023, energy production from wind went up 25%, nuclear went up 35%, hydroelectric went up 12.6%, and finally solar power went up 65%. Although solar power is still a minor energy source in total. Increasing production in the forementioned sources, and lessening coal burning by 50% and peat burning by 35% made the percentage of clean energy in Finland in 2023 go up all the way to 94% (which is a huge 38% increase from just a year before, 2022). Energy prices in Finland are back to "pre-Russian activities" levels.
Simply not true. Swedes were never overlords and the idea of "le lesser people" was actually invented by Svecomans in the 1800s during Russian rule, not Swedish rule.
Where are you guys from? Can't figure out your language from just listening, my guess is maybe South America? Aah got my answer later in the video Brazil =), nice country.
4:50 Finland was under Swedish and Russian rulers and was regarded by them to be undercivilised and they didn't make much effort culturally or financially to develop it. Finland lost the second world war and needed to pay reparations to the Soviets. Finland was dirt poor for most of it's history.
There were nazi soldiers in northern Finland in world war 2, many of them couldn't stand all the mosquitoes, endless forests, dark and cold winters and summer when sun didn't go down at all. Many of them committed suicides..
13:38 Yeah, that is only one problem in Finland, and Finland has many other problems too. Even Finland has been many times, happiest country in world, Finland is not utopia.
When you've been invaded by both the Russians and Nazi Germany, you get to appreciate life and be happy that's no longer the case. Just ask the Czechs. Maybe happiness is just another word for lack of a sense of entitlement.
It is a choice. That means the rich and powerful need to give up some of their dreams. There are no billionaires in Finland. The richest people are from "3rd world countries".
That tax is not true. To pay that much income tax you have to be millionare. When my yearly income was like 60k usd per year my tax was 26,7% There are several other misstakes too 😅
well, 3rd world refers to non allied country, 1st world was Nato, 2 world countries were communist countries, this kinda changed after soviet union fell.
You might quess that people in Finland are good in pretending and not showing the problems outside. Finns are not very happy and outgoing people in general so you might even guess that when Finland is considered the happiest country on earth.
Sadly our new goverment do everything that we are not happiest country anymore this year. Cutting social money, student money, taking down healthcare places and taking more bank loan than our last goverment. Plus give more money to rich people
@@AilaAinoSeppanen well more people without job and they say by their actions there is more work. Makes no sense 🤣🤣🤣 everything they promise was a lie like these two political parties always does but their voters still give vote to liers 🤣 too big ego to say damn i was wrong to believe them again 🤣
Well there isn´t much choise becouse the last goverment too over 30 billion of more loan and shoveled all over the globe and left this trap to solve for new goverment... Before that Sipilä and Berner tried to sell everything we owned to elsewhere whit rediculose prices and before that Katainen and Urpilainen "made those idiotic "loans" to Greece... So if someone here trust that we get good things with out tax money doesn´t really know a sh*t.
The no city over 1 million is kinda artificial because the city of Helsinki is lilited by bordering city borders and their fusion was blocked by Espoo because it has higher average wealth, if Helsinki was united with Espoo and Vantaa it would be above a million. Also the equality thing is kinda bs, men are discriminated against legally, especially in the form of conscription, but also in other ways and especially young men are massively falling behind while equality offices and funding is dominated by feminist women
As a Finn, i agree trust is very important. More important than lots of other cultures I know.
I think so too. In Finland you can trust that you will not drop to poorness if you loose your job or get ill. Safety net is working well.
The biggest roadblock to any developing country is always corruption and poor use of public funds.
and populist goverments.
Weird that the video says here's housing crisis. Only the capital area and some other major cities has maybe but the rest of Finland really doesn't. There's lots of cheap places to live in Finland. You don't need to go further than like 50km away from Helsinki and you can buy a big house with the price of small flat in Helsinki and the rents aren't really comparable either.
Finnish constitution says that government is responsible for the wellbeing of its citizens. A lot of countries do, we just take that responsibility more seriously. And yes, trust is the key.
11:25 Sadly this is really easy one to answer: Corruption, both foreign and domestic
Finland is the least corrupted country in the World, so people don't mind paying taxes, since they know it will all come back to them and those in real need in vital services. Also that tax % is extremely misleading, we have a progressive tax system, and that is the maximum tax % you can reach if you are earning a ridiculous amounts of money. The less money you make, the smaller your tax % is, down all the way to a 0%
Also unlike what the video claims, Finland doesn't have a housing crisis at all and has no "free protection" from NATO, not sure where they are pulling those conclusions from. Finland has a massive draft based defensive army with over 1.1 million deep standing army+reserve and if anything, Finland is protecting the rest of Europe from a Russian invasion from the North
Also, Russia being a huge supplier of energy for Finland? that is the most ridiculous claim ever. Finland was almost fully self-sustained in energy production before the Ukrainian war, and was importing a very small amounts of energy from the Russia, and it took only half a year to reach 100%. I think they are looking at wow, Finland is importing 90% of its gas from Russia, yes, but (unlike UK for example) Finland doesn't really use gas for anything, so while it was 90% of gas, it was only a few percentage of the whole energy cake, which was easily covered by the completion of the World's most modern nuclear power plant that same year
We used to have a housing crisis but that was solved about 50 years ago so that's pretty old news 😂
i think they mean by the housing crisis that the prices of houses have risen quite a lot.
You forgot oil.
Housing crisis, when it is usually talked about, is a lack of houses and building new non-luxury investment housing. This critical lack of housing is allowing renters and sellers to outprice houses to be almost completely unaffordable to more and more people.
This is a problem that Finland doesn't have almost anywhere outside of Helsinki, and frankly, in Helsinki it is as it should be. We should go back to encouraging decentralization away from areas where the old money rich own disproportionate amount of real estate
Pretty much everywhere else than Helsinki, Tampere and Rovaniemi (tourism boom) they are either at normal increase rates or even crashing due to decreasing population and the ongoing migration from country to cities
Finland has an amazing amount of affordable housing plans (completely inaccessible to the rich) with buy-in options for those, like people on welfare or students, who are not able to engage in the free market real estate investment game in the capital
@@hosannayeshua4446
Nice that someone made video about Finland and mentioned that how poor we were back in history. It would be nice that someone would really make a video about our rise from the basically poorest place of the Europe to the one of the richest in few decades. And have to say at those decades we fight 4 different conflicts, hole Lapland was burned town on country of 3,5 million people had to settle over 400000 refugees. And all this without any major recourses. There is no other success story that is possible to compare to this.
Love your style. Love your attitude towards more developed regions than your own. Not any sign of envy or similar useless negative attitudes. U simply seem to be interested to learn how things are how they are. It is sign of intelligence often and lead u to be more and more able to construct your view and awareness of the world to be better rooted to reality. If there are many Brazilian like u two are, your country going to be better. I just admire you guys. I am your new subscriber. This maybe 4. clip that i watch feom your channel.
Nothing but respect and love frozen hellhole Finland ❤
Yes, Finland has mosquitoes. Lots and lots of them, and they aren't small either. It depends heavily on the location, in the urban environment there aren't that much standing water where they can lay eggs but in the forest... at times it is simply unbearable.
But they aren't the only stingy things, we got blackflys (tiny, can crawl to the inside your clothes), horseflies (big, fast and painful, they bite a piece out of your flesh), deerflies (impossible to kill, also can crawl a LONG way)... In our old family farm, anything you do outside in July you have to be covered head to toe, and it is REALLY awful. At days it is horse and deerflies, at evenings it is mosquitoes and blackflys. It is between a swamp and a larger animal farm and there is quite a lot of game so it has ALL stinging and biting insects in Finland, also yellowjackets and ants.. That is one reason why no one wants to be there and it sits unused.
Bah. You know, you can always protect your skin with either clothing or some repelling sprays - or both - etc., don't you? 😉 And they (the mosquitoes and other little insects) don't kill you, if you're not very, very highly allergic.
On the other hand: we have almost none deadly poisonous insects or animals here in Finland (spiders, snakes, frogs, etc.) and that's a huuuge plus! 😉❤️ Only one poisonous snake,which could kill you, at least in theory, and then of course wasps etc. that can sometimes be deadly if you would happen to make a whole swarm of them very angry... 🫣😁
About Finnish taxation. I am at a slump nowadays, but unless I make more than 20 000 euros a year, I pay 0,5 percent state income tax.
I make 4000 a month and I pay 20% income tax. It's not so bad
I am a Finn. I live in France, because my husband is French, well for now we stay here. I am liable for taxation partially in both countries. But because I am also ill and not just with tiny challenges about that - I haven't been able to work for years because of that - so as my income for that reason is minimal being retired - my personal taxation percentage in Finland is 0%. Yes, that is possible, if you got enough of a serious situation and clear enough reasons for that - all though idk if some of those of us Finns who would qualify for the change of their taxation rating are aware that it's possible.
Anyways, oh and by the way too - I do not get as much financial support from Finland as I would get if I lived there too. So basically my income is really the minimal of what a Finn can have, when in this kind of situation. And yet I pay taxes for what property I got in Finland (case personal taxation isn't same as for that home there, where we stay at in the vacations) while paying taxes for that tiny income here in France, all though it's too small from the French perspective too, for them to take anything notable anyhow. Most of the tings I like better about my native country, but my husband's kid from the previous relationship is still underage, so it's good to have daddy stay near by. Idea is to move into Finland one he becomes of age. Anyhow what I find better here is that medicines are tiny bit cheaper generally speaking. But that's very small difference. And quality of housing simply is, for one, better in Finland. They don't make warm enough houses down here south enough, even the newer buildings still lack on that front.
And talking about heating up with wood. My mother does that, but she had some health issues so she could not do that as usually for a month in the winter. And so it required heating the water and such with electricity for that time. The electric bill for the month was over 300€ - then she started to heat again with wood, as the house has furnace for that which is linked to floor heating, water heating and all that, the new electric bill for the month heated with wood was just 90€. In other words - people who think heating with wood is 'backwards' don't seem to know what kind of developments related systems in houses have leaped to, never mind realizing how much that reduces your expenses.
Hello there. We do have mosquitos here, but mostly in rural areas and not so much in urban areas. Also, our mosquitos dont transmit serious deceases such as malaria, dengue fever etc. The most annoying things about mosquitos are the sound and the itch after a mosquito bite. Btw, mosquitoes sting and don't bite. :)
Fun fact about the mosquitoes: There's really not that much more here than anywhere else, but since the summers are so short the whole amount is more concentrated to just a few months, making it feel like there's more.
I love portuguese. It is so lovely language. And I wait every year Eurovison song contest that i heard Portugal audition.
In general, all of the Nordic countries are the same, we all show up on the top ten lists of happiness, work/life balance, life expectancy etc. There are minor differences, but in principle, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland are like one country. The only difference is that the Finns speaks a completely different language. It could be argued that Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are actually accents of the same language, I don't really agree about that, but the languages are very closely related. Finnish is like IDK, Marsian?
*Martian 😊
I'm using Linux since the early 90s… well, with quite "some" difficulties back then, and Android (with an independant flavour, not being reliant on google) for years and years now.
But, since I'm some kind of a digital nerd, I know how to do things to my own according and to my preferences.
;)
During WW2 there was a saying among the finnish soldiers, "veljeä ei jätetä", roughly meaning no brother left behind. Well, less of a saying and more of a doctrine they firmly followed - some veterans have told that getting injured wasn't that scary because their comrades were always near. They call that TRUST and brotherhood the spirit of the winter war, and people speak about it to this day.
Yet another example of TRUST that the finnish people have displayed.
Hello from England UK
Great reaction guys
Please take a look at the uk we have some amazing architecture and landscapes and a rich history
Peace love from England ❤
Sad to say but your current leadership seems to be doing everything they can to turn you into a 3rd world country. What the hell is going on there?
Good to hear that you guys in Brazil are familiar with Linux! :)
4:35 Not most, everyone, literally. You're required by law to go to school until you've finished primary school and college or vocational school, 11-13 years in total depending how fast you graduate.
I think it´s around 40% of each age group that has higher education.
Finland isn't even that rich a country. Finland has been roughly half-way between Russia and United States on GDP per capita metric since at least year 1990 (couldn't find statistics that go longer into past). It just seems that Finland is wasting less resources than many other country. And as a Finn, we still have a lot to improve - we're wasting money left and right all the time into too complex bureaucracy
brazil's gdb in ppp is roughly 12x finlands... and the nominal is ~7.5x. also brazil has a space program, we finns dont, so they win if they get to space. at least by the civ 5 rules.
19:55 Yes, you are absolutely right with this! 👍
you can get lost in woods specially in northern finland you can get lost even you follow those service roads that are meant to haul logs out from busch
Brazil is also a rich country, only problem is that the money goes to few pockets. Corruption is the problem, government doesn't take care of the citizens, only themselves and richest people of the country.
yep, a common problem in the world. especially nowaydays with our collective understanding of technology, farming etc, the world could be at ease and peace
I love winter. I love cold weather. I even love the darkness, since I can sleep better 😊
But depression is a real challenge, with the lack of sunlight and vitamin D.
But luckily, Finns drink lots of milk, which, in our country, is filled with extra vitamin D.
But even with all that, seeing the first sunny, warm day of spring is special, and in my opinion, Finnish summer is the best of all summers. Hearing bugs is such a special thing, when they are away foe 75% of the year 😂
Bzzz bzzz
Have you reacted to finnish libraries yet? It's another level of trust. There are couple interesting videos out there
Glad to hear you also use Linux =)
Finland became the happiest country, yet again in 2024 😮.. So for 7 years in a row now... What are we doing wrong, because we would never admit that we are happy... We are the world champions of melancholia in the world, for sure 😊
Finns have a basic trust in other people, and the police and state officials. That may be in in rare cases misplaced, but helps everyone feel safe. I've never felt unsafe in the dead of the night walking in Helsinki. The major factor in getting fairly economically comfortable was investing in education, even when we for a short time really couldn't afford it and had to borrow money.
Fun fact in Finland you can go get yourself an EU wide travel insurance that covers up to 20000€ in damages or injuries or other mishaps for 79€ that lasts a year.
Saudações da Finlândia!
I'll give you an example. I do not have a job at the moment, but still I go to elections as a candidate and try to get as many votes as possible!
The party accepted me as a candidate yesterday. My budget is 0€ only social media and that's it. Let's see how I can manage?
Yours Hannu
It seems that youtubers have found golden opportunity, mention Finland and influx of Finns appear😂
Energy production data on the video is old (it's from 2021). When Russia did its thing and started being hostile, and made securing energy difficult, Finland reacted immediately. During 2023 energy production in Finland increased by 13%, and the country is self sufficient now. Only 2.2% of energy used in 2023 was imported, and Finland will *always* trade energy with Norway and Sweden, either buying or selling depending on weather. Meanwhile energy consumption in Finland has gone down 8.4% since 2021.
Energy sources are seeing a cleaner trend too. During 2023, energy production from wind went up 25%, nuclear went up 35%, hydroelectric went up 12.6%, and finally solar power went up 65%. Although solar power is still a minor energy source in total.
Increasing production in the forementioned sources, and lessening coal burning by 50% and peat burning by 35% made the percentage of clean energy in Finland in 2023 go up all the way to 94% (which is a huge 38% increase from just a year before, 2022).
Energy prices in Finland are back to "pre-Russian activities" levels.
Hi, finn here... Happiest no 😆
finnish happines comes from being mentioned around the world, so being the happiest country is like snowball effect
And we damn paid the reparations fully!
Only country in the world
Finland is also the most depressed country which might be surprising
We lost almost half of our population twice in famine/rebellions (cos our overlords Sweden and Russia) considered us lesser folk
Simply not true. Swedes were never overlords and the idea of "le lesser people" was actually invented by Svecomans in the 1800s during Russian rule, not Swedish rule.
Where are you guys from? Can't figure out your language from just listening, my guess is maybe South America? Aah got my answer later in the video Brazil =), nice country.
4:50 Finland was under Swedish and Russian rulers and was regarded by them to be undercivilised and they didn't make much effort culturally or financially to develop it. Finland lost the second world war and needed to pay reparations to the Soviets. Finland was dirt poor for most of it's history.
But those reparationes were the start for our technology industry that is top notch these these.
There were nazi soldiers in northern Finland in world war 2, many of them couldn't stand all the mosquitoes, endless forests, dark and cold winters and summer when sun didn't go down at all. Many of them committed suicides..
13:38 Yeah, that is only one problem in Finland, and Finland has many other problems too.
Even Finland has been many times, happiest country in world, Finland is not utopia.
Im not sure about that video. There are some good and truthfull points but.....
That house price is Helsinki else is 50% less
When you've been invaded by both the Russians and Nazi Germany, you get to appreciate life and be happy that's no longer the case. Just ask the Czechs. Maybe happiness is just another word for lack of a sense of entitlement.
just have to ask...polarbear with the flag? poor lil fooks would be heatstroked here
It is a choice. That means the rich and powerful need to give up some of their dreams. There are no billionaires in Finland. The richest people are from "3rd world countries".
We have 6 billionaires in Finland, Antti Herlin, Mika Anttonen, Antti Aarnio-Wihuri, Ilkka Herlin, Heikki Kyöstilä ja Ilona Herlin.
Despire rich, these are actually good people.
As a finn i dont understand your comment, as it doesnt have nothing that is true...
Average salary in Finland is ~3700€/month and with that income tax is 29%.
Not really, my salary is exactly that much and the tax percentage is about 18,5%
Noup. More like 2700€ and tax about 18-25%. But it also depends where in Finland you live.
2600 is the average
@@billw.overbeck8913 have you ever heard of google?
5000€ and 25% here. So it's not that simple math
We have progressive tax, so the higher your wage is, the more you pay tax. I for example am a teacher, I earn middle income, my tax is at 21%
That tax is not true. To pay that much income tax you have to be millionare. When my yearly income was like 60k usd per year my tax was 26,7% There are several other misstakes too 😅
well, 3rd world refers to non allied country, 1st world was Nato, 2 world countries were communist countries, this kinda changed after soviet union fell.
I never considered Brazil a 3rd World. I think you are the definition of 2nd World...
There is still russian gas coming in, i do not know why.
Environment has very little effect, because human is the most adaptable species on Earth. The only one living one every continent of the planet.
Portuges?
We are "funny " 😂
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You might quess that people in Finland are good in pretending and not showing the problems outside. Finns are not very happy and outgoing people in general so you might even guess that when Finland is considered the happiest country on earth.
Unluckily my first comment has vanished somewhere that had explained this a bit further.
As a finn i can tell you.. i'm fucking poor but i do not give a shit about that😂
If we are happiest, think how sad the rest of the world have to be 😂. How f*cked up is that...
Sadly our new goverment do everything that we are not happiest country anymore this year. Cutting social money, student money, taking down healthcare places and taking more bank loan than our last goverment. Plus give more money to rich people
Let´s see what happened next year.
@@AilaAinoSeppanen well more people without job and they say by their actions there is more work. Makes no sense 🤣🤣🤣 everything they promise was a lie like these two political parties always does but their voters still give vote to liers 🤣 too big ego to say damn i was wrong to believe them again 🤣
Well there isn´t much choise becouse the last goverment too over 30 billion of more loan and shoveled all over the globe and left this trap to solve for new goverment... Before that Sipilä and Berner tried to sell everything we owned to elsewhere whit rediculose prices and before that Katainen and Urpilainen "made those idiotic "loans" to Greece... So if someone here trust that we get good things with out tax money doesn´t really know a sh*t.
AS Finn... We are fucked. Goverment won't want to pay our debt off.. people do
Happiest? As finn i call this bullshit
The no city over 1 million is kinda artificial because the city of Helsinki is lilited by bordering city borders and their fusion was blocked by Espoo because it has higher average wealth, if Helsinki was united with Espoo and Vantaa it would be above a million. Also the equality thing is kinda bs, men are discriminated against legally, especially in the form of conscription, but also in other ways and especially young men are massively falling behind while equality offices and funding is dominated by feminist women
So you want equality or are against it?