Statistics Finland said on Tuesday that the country's unemployment rate stood at 8.2% by end-2009, well over the 6.4% rate recorded a year ago.
The jobless rate among under 25s hit 21.5% in 2009 compared to 16.5% in 2008.
A total of 221,000 persons were unemployed by the end of last year, up 49,000 from 2008.
At the same time, the employment rate, which had been rising for the four previous years, fell 2.3 percentage points to stand at 68.3%.
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