As of 2022[update], there are a total of 13,150 people of Afghan background residing in Finland.

In late 2015, about half of all the asylum seekers in Finland were Afghans, of which most have arrived through Sweden to Tornio.

Deportations of Afghani asylum seekers has drawn criticism in Finland and other European countries.

80 of them were Finland's quota evacuees consisting of Afghan workers for the European Union and NATO and their family members.

[7] A day after the operation, the total number of evacuees increased to 413 when 83 Finnish Embassy's security guards and their family members were evacuated to Finland with the help of the United States.