Languages of Åland



Åland, an autonomous region of Finland, has the largest Swedish-speaking majority in Finland, with about 88% of the province, or about 25,500 people, speaking Swedish as their first language (specifically the Åland Swedish dialect). Swedish is also the sole official language of the province. Finnish also has a presence, although it is small; only about 5% of Ålanders are Finnish-speaking.

There are 59 spoken native languages in 2020 (with a total population of 29,884):
 * Swedish: 25,986
 * Finnish: 1,405
 * Romanian: 520
 * Latvian: 443
 * Estonian: 206
 * English: 160
 * Thai: 159
 * Russian: 158
 * German: 115
 * Arabic: 107
 * Tagalog: 81
 * Serbo-Croatian: 79
 * Polish: 69
 * Farsi: 55
 * Spanish: 55
 * Ukrainian: 53
 * Albanian: 45
 * Kurdish: 45
 * Norwegian: 42
 * Portuguese: 32
 * Lithuanian: 31
 * Vietnamese: 27
 * Italian: 22
 * Hindi: 19
 * Danish: 17
 * Chinese: 15
 * Turkish: 15
 * Bulgarian: 11
 * Dutch: 11
 * French: 10
 * Greek: 10
 * Malayalam: 10
 * Icelandic: 9
 * Slovak: 8
 * Swahili: 8
 * Urdu: 6
 * Kinyarwanda: 6
 * Faroese: 5
 * Indonesian: 4
 * Catalan: 4
 * Macedonian: 4
 * Azerbaijani: 3
 * Luganda: 3
 * Kikuyu: 2
 * Nepali: 2
 * Amharic: 1
 * Armenian: 1
 * Burmese: 1
 * Hausa: 1
 * Ido: 1
 * Igbo: 1
 * Lingala: 1
 * Malay: 1
 * Maltese: 1
 * Tamil: 1
 * Tatar: 1
 * Czech: 1
 * Others: 11

While the number of Swedish-speakers grew from 24,169 in 2000 to 25,862 in 2019, their percentage has dropped from 93.7% in 2000 to 86.5% in 2019. For Finnish, the percentage and number of speakers has been about same (from 1,238 to 1,401; from 4.8% to 4.7%). The percentage of speakers of other languages grew from 1.5% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2019.