🇫🇮 Finland·Household net worth by age·ECB HFCS 2023
How does your net worth compare for your age in Finland?
Enter your age and net worth. See exactly where you stand among households in your age group.
I'm years old with a household net worth of €.
vs. the typical household aged 35–44
4.7×
the median for your age
Age 35–44 median: 64 300 €
Nationally (all ages): top 23%
You hold 4.7× the net worth of the typical household in your age group. The mean for your age is 166 900 €, pulled up by the wealthiest few.
The wealth lifecycle
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Each point is the median household net worth for an age bracket (solid cyan), with the mean above it (dashed violet). The gap between the two lines is the wealth concentration in that bracket. Your point sits at your age, at the net worth you entered.
Median (typical household) Mean (pulled up by the wealthiest) You
Median and mean household net wealth by age of the reference person. ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Tables A3 and A4; fieldwork by Statistics Finland. Within-bracket percentiles are not published.
All six age brackets
Median and mean, decade by decade.
Your bracket is highlighted. The multiple shown is your net worth against that bracket's median, useful for seeing how you would rank if you were older or younger.
Under 35
6 t. €
52.6× median
35–44you
64 t. €
4.7× median
45–54
149 t. €
2.0× median
55–64
177 t. €
1.7× median
65–74
180 t. €
1.7× median
75 and over
180 t. €
1.7× median
Three numbers worth the asterisk
What the age curve hides.
Starting from zero
The typical Finnish household under 35 owns €5,700.
That is the lowest median of any age bracket in any country on this site (HFCS 2023). Young Finnish households borrow early and own late: the median reaches €149,100 only at 45-54, then flattens at €176,800, €179,900 and €180,000 across the three oldest brackets.
Mean vs median
The national mean is 2.4× the national median.
228 700 € mean versus 96 000 € median. The wealthiest 10% of households hold 51.8% of all net wealth in Finland and 12.1% of households have negative net wealth, the highest share in the survey (HFCS 2023), so the average is a poor description of a typical household.
No within-age percentiles
The HFCS does not publish percentiles inside each age bracket.
The survey publishes the median and mean per bracket, not P10 or P90 within it. This page compares your value to your bracket's median and mean, and to the national all-ages distribution.
How does this rank globally?
A net worth that is middle-of-the-pack for your age in Finland can place you in the global top few percent. See your tier among billions of adults worldwide.
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Frequently asked questions
A household net wealth of €550,000 puts you in the top 10% in Finland (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table J3). That is 5.7 times the Finnish median — the third-widest gap between the top-10% line and the median in the survey, behind Germany and Austria. Table J3 publishes no top-5% or top-1% threshold, so the 90th percentile is the highest measured line. The figure counts property equity after mortgage, financial assets and business equity.
The median Finnish household has a net wealth of €96,000 (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table J3) — 19th of the 22 countries surveyed and well below the euro-area median of €140,100. The mean is €228,700, 2.4 times the median. Finnish incomes are above the euro-area average, so the low ranking is not an income story.
Debt and what the survey leaves out. Finnish households earn a median gross income of €45,700 against €37,100 for the euro area (Table I3), but 58.6% of them carry debt against 41.5%, and the median indebted household's debt equals 41.9% of its assets against 21.6% euro-area-wide, with a median loan-to-value of 53.1% against 36.8% (Tables F1 and G1). On top of that, the HFCS excludes entitlements from public and occupational pension schemes — in Finland the statutory earnings-related pension is a large part of household retirement resources and none of it appears in these figures.
By a wide margin. 39.1% of Finnish households hold mutual funds against 14.2% across the euro area, and 25.0% own listed shares directly against 11.4% (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table C1). Financial assets make up 27.2% of everything Finnish households own against 20.7% euro-area-wide (Table D1). Bonds are the exception: 0.1% of households hold any, against 3.5%. Note that participation is not size — the median household's financial assets still come to €15,500, close to the euro-area €16,600 (Table C3).
It sits between the 60th percentile (€151,000) and the 70th (€220,200), so a household worth €200,000 owns more than roughly two in three Finnish households (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table J3). That is more than twice the €96,000 median, and the top-10% line is still far off at €550,000.
The mean net worth in Finland is €228,700, against a median of €96,000 — the average is 2.4 times the middle household (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table J3). The two numbers answer different questions. The mean divides total national wealth by the number of households, so a handful of very large fortunes lifts it; the median is the household in the exact middle, so it describes what is typical. When you read "average net worth", check which one is meant — for "where do I stand", the median is the honest benchmark.
The HFCS does not publish it, and no honest answer can invent it. Table J3 stops at the 90th percentile, which in Finland is €550,000 — that is the top-10% entry point, the highest threshold the survey reports. What Table J4 does publish is how much the summit holds: the wealthiest 5% of Finnish households own 37.2% of all net wealth and the wealthiest 10% own 51.8%. Any figure you see quoted as a "top 1% threshold" for this survey has been extrapolated by someone, not measured.
Wealth in Finland starts from almost nothing and then climbs hard. The median household under 35 holds €5,700 — the lowest figure in any age bracket of any country on this site — and that rises to €149,100 at 45-54 and €180,000 from 75, a 31.6-fold climb (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Tables A3 and A4). So there is no single "good" number: a 30-year-old at the median of their bracket and a 60-year-old at the median of theirs are both exactly average for their age. Our net-worth-by-age page compares your figure with your own bracket rather than the national median.
12.1% of Finnish households have negative net wealth — they owe more than they own — the highest share of the 22 countries surveyed and more than three times the euro-area 3.6% (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table F3). It shows up in the distribution itself: Finland is the only country whose 10th percentile is below zero, at -€2,700, and the bottom 20% hold €3,000 or less (Table J3). Negative net wealth is not always distress — a recent buyer with a new mortgage and a graduate with a student loan both show up here — but it does mean a shock has nothing to land on.
72.8% of everything Finnish households own is a real asset — property above all, plus vehicles and business equity — and 27.2% is financial, well above the euro-area 20.7% (ECB HFCS Wave 2023, Table D1). 64.0% own their main residence (Table B1), while 39.1% hold mutual funds and 25.0% own listed shares directly, against euro-area rates of 14.2% and 11.4% (Table C1). The median household's financial assets still come to only €15,500 (Table C3): many Finnish households are invested, but in modest amounts next to the home.