Editing History of Finland (section)

===Emigration trends===
[[File:S-s Urania in port with 509 emigrants, spring 1893.jpg|thumb|upright|''S/S Urania'' in [[Hanko, Finland|Hanko]] harbor in 1893, with 509 emigrants on board on their way to America]]
{{main|Finnish Americans|Canadians of Finnish ancestry}}
Emigration was especially important 1890–1914,<ref>B. R. Mitchell, ''European Historical Statistics, 1750–1970'' (Columbia U.P., 1978) p. 47.</ref> with many young men and some families headed to [[Finnish Americans|Finnish settlements in the United States]], and also [[Canadians of Finnish ancestry|to Canada]].  They typically worked in lumber and mining, and many were active in Marxist causes on the one hand, or the [[Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America]] on the other.  In the 21st century about 700,000 Americans and 140,000 Canadians claim Finnish ancestry.
:1880s: 26,000
:1890s: 59,000
:20th century: 159,000
:1910s: 67,000
:1920s: 73,000
:1930s: 3,000
:1940s: 7,000
:1950s: 32,000

By 2000 about 6% of the population spoke Swedish as their first language, or 300,000 people. However, since the late 20th century there has been a steady migration of older, better educated Swedish speakers to Sweden.<ref>Charlotta Hedberg and Kaisa Kepsu, "Migration as a mode of cultural expression? The case of the Finland‐Swedish minority's migration to Sweden." ''Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography'' (2003) 85#2: 67–84 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0467.00132/abstract online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140526215938/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0467.00132/abstract |date=26 May 2014 }}</ref>