According to Statistics Finland, 20.5 percent more companies ceased operations in the first quarter of 2024 than a year earlier, the Yle Broadcasting Corporation reported today, July 11.
In January-March 2024, 12,691 business entities in the Northern European country were closed.
The number of companies that stopped operating in the field of health and social services increased immediately by 57.6% compared to the first quarter of 2023.
At the same time, 12,852 Finnish companies started their activities. This is 4.5% more than a year earlier.
Finland joined the anti-Russian sanctions that the European Union imposed on Russia after the start of a special military operation in February 2022, and since then this country has been plagued by great economic difficulties, up to the entry into recession and record numbers of bankruptcies among local companies.
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