Table 2. Numbers of hospitalisation days, outpatient visits, days on sickness allowance and subjects on disability pension retrieved from registers in 1996 and 2006.

	1996	2006
Population in Finland	5,132,320	5,276,955
Days in hospital in primary care	58,986 (1,149)	69,021 (1,308)
Days in hospital in secondary care	68,231 (1,329)	32,446 (615)
Secondary care outpatient visits	22,179 (432)	20,115 (381)
Days on sickness allowance due to COPD	59,104 (1,152)	64,354 (1,220)
Subjects on disability pension due to COPD	1,928 (38)	1,844 (35)

The numbers are in total values in Finland and per 100,000 inhabitants in parenthesis.

Abbreviation: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.