Editing Turku (section)

=== Immigration ===

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|colspan="3"|'''Population by country of birth (2024)'''<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final"/>
|-\
! Nationality || Population || %
|-
|{{flag|Finland}} || 174,850 || 84.8
|-
|{{flag|Soviet Union}} || 3,342 || 1.6
|-
|{{flag|Iraq}} || 2,462 || 1.2
|-
|{{flag|Estonia}} || 1,626 || 0.8
|-
|{{flag|Iran}} || 1,343 || 0.7
|-
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} || 1,313 || 0.6
|-
|{{flag|Sweden}} || 1,286 || 0.6
|-
|{{flag|Ukraine}} || 1,127 || 0.6
|-
|{{flag|Somalia}} || 1,096 || 0.6
|-
|{{flag|India}} || 918 || 0.4
|-
|{{flag|China}} || 802 || 0.4
|-
|{{flag|Vietnam}} || 754 || 0.4
|-
|Other || 15,154 || 7.4
|- 
|}
{{As of|2024}}, there were 35,088 people with a foreign background living in Turku, or 17% of the population.{{refn|Statistics Finland classifies a person as having a "foreign background" if both parents or the only known parent were born abroad.<ref name="statistics-finland-persons-with-foreign-background">{{cite web |access-date=18 September 2023 |title=Persons with foreign background |publisher=Statistics Finland |url=https://www.stat.fi/tup/maahanmuutto/maahanmuuttajat-vaestossa/ulkomaalaistaustaiset_en.html |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105084300/https://www.stat.fi/tup/maahanmuutto/maahanmuuttajat-vaestossa/ulkomaalaistaustaiset_en.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>|group=note}} There were 31,223 residents who were born abroad, or 15% of the population. The number of foreign citizens in Turku was 21,665.<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final"/>

The relative share of immigrants in Turku's population is well above the national average. Moreover, the city's new residents are increasingly of foreign origin. This will increase the proportion of foreign residents in the coming years.

Most foreign-born citizens came from the former [[Soviet Union]], [[Iraq]], [[Estonia]], [[Sweden]], [[Iran]], the former [[Yugoslavia]], [[Ukraine]] and [[Somalia]].<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final"/>