Swedish Finns in the World Today

Abstrakti

Based on remarks presented at the Symposium on Swedish Finns in Western Canada, organized on September 30, 2007, by the Vancouver Chapter of the Canadian Friends of Finland. The table Expatriate Finns gives an idea of how many persons aware of their roots in Finland now reside abroad in major areas of the world today. The Finnish Expatriate Parliament, as well as many Finnish offi cials, often refer to the total number of 1.35 million. Note that the vast majority of these live in North America and Sweden, and only about 100,000 in other areas