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Electricity in Finland 1981
| Author | Finnish Ass. of Electr. Supply U. |
| Date | 1982 |
| Classification | 2.09.0.00/01 (FINLAND - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
ELECTRICITY IN FINLAND 1981
Finland is a fairly large country (337 000 sq.km, 130 000 sq. miles) with a population
of 4.8 million. The population density is 14 persons per square kilometre. Most of
the population lives in the southern and western parts of the country, about 600 000
people in the northern half.
Over the past few decades Finland has changed from being an agriculture and forestry
land to an industrial state. The standard of living in Finland is among the highest in
the world. The Finnish economy is divided up according to employees as follows:
1950 1980 1985(forecast)
industry and construction 27 % 34 % 34 %
services 28 % 54 % 56 %
forestry and agriculture 45 % 12 % 10 %
Finland is known to the rest of the world as the "land of thousands of lakes". Yet
there is relatively little hyrdo power. The annual precipitation is small (550 mm/a),
there is little water in the lake basins and the rapids are shallow.
1. Total energy consumption
The per capita consumption of energy in Finland is among the highest in the world,
chiefly because of the cold climate, the structure of industry, the scattered population
and the high standard of living. The total consumption of energy was 24.7 Mtoe in
1979 and 25.2 Mtoe in 1980. The forecast for 1990 is 28.7 Mtoe.
More than a quarter of the total energy goes on heating buildings. As building costs
are also high because of the cold climate, Finland's position is far less favourable
than that of more southerly countries.
Industry consumes close on half of the total energy and transport a good tenth.
Households and agriculture, construction and services together consume about
one seventh of the total energy.
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