Official figures recorded 1,356 racist and xenophobic hate crimes.

The figure presented here covers the following grounds: "race/colour", "ethnicity/national origin, citizenship and language".

Finland reported 171 crimes committed with an anti-religious bias.

Hate crimes reported under this category cover all anti-religious hate crime, without disaggregation by faith.

Official figures recorded 82 hate crimes based on bias against LGBT people.

Official data were reported separately for LGB and transgender hate crime but are presented together here.

Official figures recorded 95 crimes based on bias against people with disabilities.

In order to increase the reporting of racist crimes, various awareness raising campaigns have been conducted in the framework of the "2012-2015 Internal Security Programme." The programme also initiated surveys among people of immigrant origin in order to gain information about their sense of security in the country. Finland is also part of a European Union project that aims at developing an EU model of good practice to counter racial and religious hate crime and hate speech, and that addresses effective systems to report on hate crime through capacity building for law-enforcement and ethnic communities.

The newly published "National Action Plan for the Prevention of Violent Radicalisation and Extremism" made a connection between hate crime and extremism, and commits to develop better mechanisms to counter the problem.

Finland signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ODIHR to implement the Training against Hate Crime for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme.