Open data
Open data is machine-readable data which may be freely used for any purpose.
Kela makes open data available at avoindata.suomi.fi. The following open data are available:
Summary reports
- Benefits provided by Kela: Number of recipients and benefits paid out
- Summary of data on benefit decisions
Families with children
Child care allowances
Maternity, paternity and parental allowances
Housing benefits
Medicines
Pensions
Pension provision in Finland
- Recipients of pension and average pensions in Finland
- Finnish disability pension: Recipients by illness
Pensions provided by Kela
- Recipients of pension benefits from Kela and average amounts of benefit
- Pension benefits paid out by Kela
- Recipients of guarantee pension and average amount of pension received
- Guarantee pensions paid out
Sickness
- Reimbursements of medical expenses: Number of recipients and reimbursements paid out
- Recipients and benefit expenditures by diagnosis, whole country
- Recipients and benefit expenditures by diagnostic category
Social assistance
- Basic social assistance: Recipient households
- Recipients of basic social assistance
- Expenditure on basic social assistance paid out by Kela and payments returned
Students
- Financial aid for students: Number of recipients and financial aid paid out
- School transport subsidy: Number of recipients and subsidies paid out
Unemployment
- Number of recipients of labour market subsidy by cumulative days of payment and basis of eligibility
- Number of recipients of unemployment benefits partly financed by municipalities and benefit expenditure for all of Finland 2025–
- Number of recipients of unemployment benefits partly financed by municipalities and benefit expenditure according to municipality 2025–
- Number of recipients of unemployment benefits partly financed by municipalities and benefit expenditure according to employment area 2025–
- Number of recipients of labour market subsidy partly financed by municipalities and benefit expenditure: Whole country 2006–2025
- Number of recipients of labour market subsidy partly financed by municipalities and benefit expenditure according to municipality 2006–2025
- Unemployment benefits provided by Kela: Analysis by basis of eligibility
- Unemployment benefits provided by Kela: Number of recipients at end of month
Rights of data use
The open data released by Kela is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 licence (creativecommons.org). Kela must be credited as a source.
Data protection
Open data never contains any personal information. Indirect identification of private individuals is prevented. This is usually done by ensuring that the data does not include groups of fewer than four persons. Such small groups are aggregated into larger ones. More detailed information can be found in each data description.
Contact information
Email your questions about the open data released by Kela to tilastot@kela.fi.
