Ageing Finland needs 50 000 migrants a year

HELSINKI: Finland needs over 50 000 immigrants a year for the next 28 years to fill job vacancies arising due to an ageing population, according to the country’s tech industry.

Technology Finland said this week that the industry alone, the most significant export sector in Finland, will need 130 000 new experts in the next 10 years Only half of these will replace retirees, so there will be tens of thousands of job vacancies in the export industry in the next 10 years.

Technology Finland said that if the country did not have enough workers, the welfare state would not be maintained.