Growth in the number of employed persons slowed down in the Helsinki region at the end of the year
The number of employed people in the Helsinki region grew by an average of 19,000 or 2.4 per cent in 2022 compared with the previous year. In the whole country, the percentage was slightly higher than in the Helsinki region. Employment trends have been quite positive following the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the number of employed persons in the Helsinki region was six per cent higher than before the pandemic in 2019.
However, the growth started to slow down in the Helsinki region in the last quarter of 2022. The number of employed people in the Helsinki region increased only by 0.4 per cent in October–December 2022 from the corresponding period in the previous year. The number of employed persons was a little less than 3,000 higher than in the previous year. In all of Finland, the number of employed persons increased by 43,300 persons or a little under two per cent year-on-year.
In the Helsinki region, the number of persons outside the labour force increased by four per cent in the last quarter of 2022 compared to the previous year. At the national level, the number of persons aged 15 to 74 outside the labour force decreased by three per cent from the year before.
The number of working-age people in the Helsinki region was one per cent higher than one year ago, while the number of working-age people remained at the previous year’s level in Finland as a whole.