Finland acquired a significant Hindu population for the first time around the turn of the 21st century due to the recruitment of information technology workers from India by companies such as Nokia.

[5] As of 2021, there are 10,749 Indians in Finland, as well as 5,012 Nepalis and 1,704 Sri Lankans (a total of 17,465), though it is not known how many of them are Hindus.

[6] In 2009, Hindu nationalists protested the inclusion of a photograph that they felt denigrated Hinduism in an exhibit at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.

[7] There is an International Society for Krishna Consciousness temple in Malmi, Helsinki.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, which claims over 80 per cent of native Finns as members, reports that yoga is practiced by tens of thousands.