Editing Helsinki (section)

===Immigration===

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|colspan="3"|'''Population by country of birth (2024)'''<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final"/>
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! Nationality || Population || %
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|{{flag|Finland}} || 558,876|| 77.9
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|{{flag|Soviet Union}} || 14,604 || 2.1
|-
|{{flag|Estonia}} || 9,979 || 1.5
|-
|{{flag|Somalia}} || 7,873 || 1.2
|-
|{{flag|Iraq}} || 6,377 || 0.9
|-
|{{flag|China}} || 4,635 || 0.7
|-
|{{flag|Russia}} || 4,621 || 0.7
|-
|{{flag|Sweden}} || 3,658 || 0.5
|-
|{{flag|Philippines}} || 3,488 || 0.5
|-
|{{flag|India}} || 3,321 || 0.5
|-
|{{flag|Nepal}} || 3,087 || 0.5
|-
|Other || 63,499 || 9.3
|- 
|}
{{As of|2024}}, there were 142,296 people with an immigrant background living in Helsinki, or 21% of the population.{{efn|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 }}</ref>}} There were 125,142 residents who were born abroad, or 18% of the population. The number of foreign citizens in Helsinki was 84,396.<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final"/>

The relative share of immigrants in Helsinki's population is twice the national average, and the city's new residents are increasingly of foreign origin.<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final"/> This will increase the proportion of foreign residents in the coming years. As a crossroads of many international ports and Finland's [[Helsinki Airport|largest airport]], Helsinki is the global gateway to and from Finland.

Most foreign-born citizens come from the former [[Soviet Union]], [[Estonia]], [[Somalia]], [[Iraq]], [[China]] and [[Russia]].<ref name="statistics-finland-population-2024-final"/>