The number of people in favor of a NATO membership for Finland has risen by 34 percentage points since 2017. Back then, only 19 percent of Finns were in favor of a membership. This is a drastic change in Finnish attitudes towards NATO membership.
Data collection for the survey 2022 started on Wednesday 23 February, the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The figures have been taken from several publications.
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Tulisiko Suomen liittyä sotilasliitto Naton jäseneksi?"
The source adds the following information:
"The results were weighted by age, gender and place of residence to correspond to demographic statistics.
The margin of error in the survey is 2.5 percentage points in each direction."
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Yleisradio. (February 28, 2022). Should Finland join NATO? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293557/opinion-development-on-joining-nato-finland/
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