Rural settlements play an important role as local economic centres and balancing elements in regional structures. However, population shifts towards larger agglomerations have reduced their vitality.

Although the post-World War II land reform changed the size and position of Finland’s rural population and affected agrarian identity in important ways, the changes were almost the opposite of what ...

New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO25) in Malaga, Spain (11–14 May), reveals that 3 to ...

Kainuu has the greatest demographic imbalance between young women and men in Finland, and the impacts ripple across society from individuals to the entire region. For 36-year-old Teemu Ikonen, finding ...

By analyzing 300 rural dam projects across 35 countries, researchers from Aalto University in Finland found discrepancies among these independent population counts and other population data ...

Her third child, who is now two, should already have been immunized against illnesses such as rotavirus, pneumonia, sepsis, whooping cough and polio, in line with Finland's national vaccination ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Aalto University in Finland show the profound and systematic extent to which these datasets underestimate rural population figures ...

Here’s why Rented in Finland is shaping up to be a must-watch. Park Min-Jae Dies at 32; What We Know About His Tragic Passing 2. Surviving Rural Finland The actors will leave behind modern ...