• 19% of the Finnish population Nordic Walk on a regular basis at least once a week
• Nordic Walking is one of the most popular sports in Finland
• Like jogging in the 1980’s in the UK, Nordic walking was shunned because it was unfamiliar in Finland.
• Now Nordic Walking has spread through the whole of Finland with enthusiastic fans of a wide variety worldwide.
• A higher ratio of women take part in Nordic Walking than men although recently, the percentage of men taking part has increased rapidly.
• Nordic Walking is undertaken in many countries worldwide including Finnland, Australia, Germany, Slovakia, Austria, Iceland, Slovenia, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Canada, Japan, Sweden, China, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Croatia, Kuwait, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, New Zeland, the USA, Estonia, Norway, France and Poland.