Economy
Finland is a highly developed industrial country whose GDP/per capita income lies a little above the average for the EU. Germany is Finland's major trading partner in both directions (in 2002, 11.8% of Finnish exports and 14.5% of Finnish imports). The subsequent order of importance for suppliers is: Sweden, Russia, the USA and the UK, and for buyers: the UK, the USA, Sweden and Russia. 54.0% of Finnish exports in 2002 went to EU countries, 55.7% of imports originated there.
