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== Demographics ==
===Population===
{{Historical populations
|type= none
|state = collapsed
|1815|1087
|1840|2071
|1850|2849
|1860|4066
|1870|5639
|1880|6871
|1890|8882
|1900|11723
|1910|15845
|1920|18725
|1930|24082
|1940|25157
|1950|33353
|1960|44911
|1970|63766
|NaN= 667
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}}
The city of Kuopio has {{formatnum: {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Kuopio }}}} inhabitants, making it the seventh most populous municipality in Finland. The [[Kuopio sub-region|region of Kuopio]] is the sixth largest in Finland, after the regions of [[Greater Helsinki|Helsinki]], [[Tampere sub-region|Tampere]], [[Turku sub-region|Turku]], [[Oulu sub-region|Oulu]] and [[Jyväskylä sub-region|Jyväskylä]]. Kuopio is home to 2% of Finland's population. 5% of the population has a foreign background, which is lower than in the major Finnish cities of [[Helsinki]], [[Espoo]], [[Tampere]], [[Vantaa]] or [[Turku]].<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons">{{Cite web | url=https://stat.fi/en/publication/cl8lprraorrr20dut5a0tywm5 | title=Number of foreign-language speakers grew by nearly 38,000 persons | date=31 May 2023 | publisher=Statistics Finland | access-date=12 September 2023 | language=en }}</ref>
{{Bar chart
| title = Population size of Kuopio (and merged municipalities) 1980–2020<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/>
| label_type = Year
| data_type = Population
| bar_width = 47
| width_units = em
| label1 = 1980
| label2 = 1985
| label3 = 1990
| label4 = 1995
| label5 = 2000
| label6 = 2005
| label7 = 2010
| label8 = 2015
| label9 = 2020
| data_max = 120000
| data1 = 99687
| data2 = 102686
| data3 = 104675
| data4 = 108199
| data5 = 108890
| data6 = 110208
| data7 = 112336
| data8 = 116921
| data9 = 119379
}}
=== Languages ===
{{Pie chart
|thumb = left
|caption = Population by mother tongue (2022)<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/>
|label1 = Finnish
|value1 = 95.0
|color1 = #002F6C
|label2 = Russian
|value2 = 1.3
|color2 = #D52B1E
|label3 = Arabic
|value3 = 0.6
|color3 = #165D31
|label4 = English
|value4 = 0.3
|color4 = #FFFFFF
|label5 = Estonian
|value5 = 0.2
|color5 = #0072CE
|label6 = Thai
|value6 = 0.2
|color6 = #A51931
|label7 = Farsi
|value7 = 0.1
|color7 = #239F40
|label8 = Other
|value8 = 2.3
|color8 = #C5C5C5
}}
Kuopio is the fourth largest monolingual [[Finnish language|Finnish-speaking]] municipality in Finland after Tampere, Oulu and Jyväskylä. There are {{formatnum: {{Data Finland municipality/native language Swedish|Kuopio }} }} [[Swedo-Finnish|Swedish-speakers]] in Kuopio, i.e. they make up about 0.1% of the city's population.<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/> As [[English language|English]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] are compulsory school subjects, functional bilingualism or trilingualism acquired through language studies is not uncommon.
At least 100 different languages are spoken in Kuopio. The most widely spoken foreign languages are [[Russian language|Russian]] (1.3%), [[Arabic]] (0.6%), [[English language|English]] (0.3%) and [[Estonian language|Estonian]] (0.2%).<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/>
=== Immigration ===
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|colspan="3"|'''Population by country of birth (2022)'''<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/>
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|{{flag|Finland}} || 116576 || 95.1
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|{{flag|Turkey}} || 139 || 0.1
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|Other || 2,865 || 2.3
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In 2022, 6,127 people with a migrant background lived in Kuopio, representing 5% of the population. There are 6,018 residents who were born abroad, which makes up 4.9% of the population. The number of foreign citizens in Jyväskylä is 3,924.<ref name="Stat-finland-population-2022">{{Cite web | url=https://stat.fi/en/publication/cl8lphfzbrm4j0cw1b5wyor1h | title=Population structure 2000-2022, urban-rural classification | date=26 May 2023 | publisher=Statistics Finland | access-date=12 September 2023 | language=en }}</ref> Most foreign-born citizens come from the former [[Soviet Union]], [[Russia]], [[Sweden]], [[Iran]], and [[Afghanistan]].<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/>
The relative share of immigrants in Jyväskylä's population is below the national average. Nevertheless, the city's new residents are increasingly of foreign origin. This will increase the proportion of foreign residents in the coming years.
=== Religion ===
In 2022, the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland|Evangelical Lutheran Church]] was the largest religious group with 67.1% of the population of Kuopio. Other religious groups accounted for 3.8% of the population. 29.1% of the population had no religious affiliation.<ref name="Stat-finland-population-38,000-persons"/>
[[File:Kuopio, Kuopio Cathedral.JPG|thumb|left|[[Kuopio Cathedral]]]]
The largest church denomination in Finland,
Kuopio is home of the [[Finnish Orthodox Church]] where its primate, archbishop of Karelia and all Finland [[Leo (Makkonen) of Finland|Leo (Makkonen)]] is seated. This is an autonomous jurisdiction affiliated with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. It is the only mainstream Orthodox faction to celebrate Easter on the Latin date. The late [[Archbishop Paul]] had been successful in producing literature of popular theology. The city is also the location of [[RIISA- Orthodox Church Museum of Finland]].
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