Digital and Population Data Services Agency (The Finnish Digital Agency)
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency promotes the digitalisation of society, secures the availability of data, and provides services for the life events of its customers.
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency (The Finnish Digital Agency) sees to the maintenance of the Population Information System, which is the foundation for our society, and to the digitalisation of society.
The agency’s tasks include civil marriages, name and address changes, guardianship and administrative guardianship, maintenance of the Population Information System, development of solutions for electronic identification, as well as the development and maintenance of centralised support services for e-services. E-service support services include the Suomi.fi Web Service, electronic messages from authorities (Suomi.fi Messages) as well as authorisation for acting on behalf of another party (Suomi.fi e-Authorization).
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency leads the way, reforms society and supports citizens in their interaction with public administration. Our aim is to further promote the smooth functioning of Finnish society. Digitalisation is one important way to achieve this.
We operate courageously to reform, support and appreciate.
We create trust and care about the future.
Digitalisation partner with a vision
In society, we act as a trendsetter that operates courageously by reforming, supporting and appreciating. For our customers and partners, we are a reliable and desirable partner with a vision.
Through networking actively, we strengthen confidence in society. Our goal is to make Finnish society run even smoother.
Our values are courage, appreciation and trust
Guided by our values, we make decisions open-mindedly, we encourage self-direction among our experts, and we make fast progress.
In our operations, we value diversity, have respectful conversations, and nurture competence. All our operations are guided by mutual trust and a constant will to improve. To become even better, we evaluate ourselves and our operations constantly.
We operate on a national level
Our agency has over 800 employees and we operate in over 30 towns all over Finland.
Our operating model is national; citizens can visit any service location they choose.
Follow the Digital and Population Data Services Agency on social media!
We actively share our operations on social media.
We are on our social media channels Mondays through Fridays from 9:00–16:00.
Our communications and marketing team is responsible for maintaining, using, and developing social media profiles.
Information about the ground rules for our social media channels and webinars: dvv.fi/en/en/some.
- Individuals
- Moving
- Check your own personal details
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Names
- Guardianship
- Having or adopting a child
- Marriage
- Death and estate inventory
- Life changes while living abroad
- Moving while living abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Marriage concluded abroad
- Partnership registered abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of citizenship
- Loss of citizenship of another country
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Submitting foreign documents
- As a foreigner in Finland
- Registration of a foreigner
- Guide for students
- Municipality of residence
- Family relationships and Marital Status
- Instructions on arriving in Finland from Ukraine
- Guide for employed persons
- Fast track service for specialists and growth entrepreneurs
- Instructions for legalisation
- Submitting foreign documents
- Foreigner’s move to Finland, in Finland and out of Finland
- Services of notary public
- Confirmation of gender
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Elections and Right to vote
- Certification of purchase
- Registration of a gift notification
- Organisations
- Certificates, cards, seals and stamps
- For social welfare and healthcare service providers
- For organisations
- Electronic sealing service
- Timestamping Service
- Electronic signature
- Service certificates
- Advisory service, support and revocation service
- Certificate Directory
- Test the use of a certificate
- Card Reader Software
- Information about certificates
- Population information services for organisations
- Public administration sampling and updating service
- Private sector information services
- PIS modified data interface
- Modified data update service
- Population Information System query interface
- Browser-based Population Information System query
- Resident selection service
- Selection service for municipalities
- Reform of personal identity code
- Conditions for using population information
- Selection service for wellbeing services counties
- Maintaining the Population Information System
- Extracts from registers
- Suomi.fi services
- Services to promote digitalisation
- Digital support
- Digital security services
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Right to officiate weddings
- E-services
- Finnish Authenticator identification service
- Certificates, cards, seals and stamps
- About the agency
- Digital and Population Data Services Agency
- Digital and Population Data Services Agency as an Employer
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- Customer service for private customers
- Customer service for organisations
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- Digital and Population Data Services Agency address, switchboard e-billing details
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- Marriage ceremony premises information
- Contact details for media
- International Affairs
- Invoicing
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- Data protection
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- Brochures and publications
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- Foresight and research cooperation