43.4 and regional average of 46.4. Speakers of Finnish made up 97.9% of the population and speakers of Swedish made up 0.2%, while the share of speakers of foreign languages was 1.9%. Foreign nationals made up 1.4% of the total population. At the end of March 2021, the population of Iitti was 6,590. The chart below, describing the development of the total population of Iitti from 1975-2020, encompasses the municipality's area as of 2021. Urban areas In 2019, out of the total population of 6,711, 3,946 people lived in urban areas and 2,705 in sparsely populated areas, while the coordinates of 60 people were unknown. This made Iitti's degree of urbanization 59.3%. The urban population in the municipality was divided between two urban areas as follows: Economy In 2018, 10.2% of the workforce of Iitti worked in primary production (agriculture, forestry and fishing), 35.9% in secondary production (e.g. manufacturing, construction and infrastructure), and 50.8% in services. In 2019, the unemployment rate was 9.2%, and the share of pensioners in the population was 35.8%. The ten largest employers in Iitti in 2019 were as follows: Notable residents Lasse J. Laine – naturalist References External links Municipality of Iitti – Official website Finnish, Swedish, English and German languages Populated places established in 1865